About Amandine
Amandine Roche speaks frequently on issues of personal and professional change, about human rights, peace building, democracy, wellness, gender equality, consciousness and mental health.
She has been invited to some of the most prestigious events and companies in the world. She has also spoken to UN Executive directors, heads of Private Companies, colleges, nonprofits and start-ups.
Amandine Roche is a women’s empowerment expert with more than 20 years of experience with the United Nations and European Union in conflict contexts such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Congo, and Libya.
Her professional experience focuses on human rights, democratization, education, freedom of expression, and gender/youth empowerment.
Amandine has been described as a captivating storyteller whose truthful narrative raise the level of consciousness, inspires people to leave people broken open and inspired to act and commit. She's been a featured speaker at TEDx Berkeley, Google, United Nations, Principia University & more
TEDxBerkeley
Inner peacekeeping for global peacekeepers
Amandine has participated in 20 peace and democratic processes around the world. Among her many roles, she has served as head of the UN Civic Education Program in Afghanistan, UN Coordinator of the Spotlight Initiative (which is the world largest program to end violence against women) in Papua New Guinea, director of UN Women and Youth empowerment program in Haiti, and was the UN responsible of Women leadership program in Central Africa Republic.
She is the founder of the Amanuddin Foundation in Kabul, which aims to develop a culture of peace and promote wellness through yoga and meditation to prisoners, women, soldiers, and kids. The Foundation runs the Torch of Light School, which enrolls 350 male and female students. She also created the Inner Peace Keeping program in the Middle East for humanitarians suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, burnout, depression and anxiety, and she gave a talk at TEDx Berkeley explaining the importance of inner peacekeeping for peacekeepers. Following the Inner Peace Keeping program, she created the Inner Peace Corps, which seeks to heal the invisible wounds of trauma, restore human dignity, and develop joy through creativity – all of which she taught to refugees in the Zaatari (video password: amandinetheportal) and Mafraq camps in Jordan.
She is an award-winning author of two books: Nomade Sur la Voie d’Ella Maillart (Arthaud/Payot, 2003, 20,000 copies sold), for which she is a received the Society of Explorers Award, the Marcel Bleustein Blanchet Award, the Guild of Adventure Grant, the Defi Jeune Grant, and the Creavenir Grant; and Flight of the Doves (Robert Laffont, 2005, 5,000 copies sold). She is also a photographer, having served as assistant to the World Press Olivier Follmi, and her pictures have been published in National Geographic, Paris Match, and Le Monde and distributed by Getty. She is a member of the elite Society of Explorers, a public speaker, social entrepreneur, hatha yoga teacher, vipassana meditation teacher and Search Inside Yourself Teacher focusing on mindfulness, emotional intelligence, compassion, and conscious leadership.
She holds a MD in International Relations and LM in Political Science (France), and an MA in Human Rights and International Law (Spain). She spent years in India learning the teachings of inner peace and non-violence from spiritual Masters such as HH Dalai Lama, Karmapa, Goenka, and Amma.
Platform and Promotion
Readers will easily hear about Sovereignty Regained because Amandine is a well-connected public figure.
Articles about her work have been written in The Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal, El Pais, Yoga Journal (January 2016 and August 2016), The Huffington Post, The Shift (May 2019 and 2020), and The Muse.
Amandine has participated in several peace conferences, appearing on the same panel as Peace Nobel Laureates such as Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi and Leymah Gbowee, as well as human rights activists such Somali Mam, Ishmael Beah, Bob Thurman, Emmanuel Jal, and Zainab Salbi. She has spoken at the Newark Peace Summit, Change Now, the Mindful Society Conference, Google, Principia College, and the Davos Female Quotient Equality Lounge.
She was also interviewed for several Podcasts such as Waking the Divine Feminine in the Battlefield, Sister Jenna, Green Planet/Blue Planet, Buckit, Powerliving, and Vignesh Devraj.
Refugee: The New Citizenship at the ChangeNOW Summit 2018
Amandine Roche on Meditating with the Taliban on Live Sonima
Her work and life have also been featured in several books:
Des femmes inspirantes: by Aurelie Godefroy (2022) she was recognized as “one of the most inspiring women”, among Michelle Obama, Marion Cotillard, Vandana Shiva
Aventurieres de l’Esprit: by Nathalie Calme (2021) she was recognized as “an adventurer of the Spirit” among Byron Katie
The Portal: by Tom Cronin (2019) she was recognized as “one of the most impactful people in the world of Mindfulness and meditation” among Jim Doty, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Mikey Siegel
The Tools of Inner Peace for Refugees
The Internet to the Inner-net by Gopi Kallayil
The Charisma Code by Robin Sol Lieberman
Body Wise by Rachel Abrams
Rising in Love by Ram Das Batchelder
Je Suis de Nulle Part by Olivier Weber
Brain Magic by Jim Doty
