Associate Professor
conflict resolution studies
Telephone: (204) 953-3860
a.snyder@uwinnipeg.ca
Dr. Anna Snyder’s research interests include women’s peace organizations, Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal reconciliation, refugee peacebuilding and transnational non-governmental network conflict. Snyder published a book focusing on conflict resolution among transnational women’s peace organizations titled Setting the Agenda for Global Peace: Conflict and Consensus Building by Ashgate in 2003, the first in their Gender in a Global/Local World series. Snyder’s research focused on African women’s peace organizations. She has published articles in journals such as Globalizations and Canadian Woman Studies.
Her conflict resolution practice has focused primarily on local healing and reconciliation efforts between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples on the issue of residential schools in Canada. She co-authored a book chapter on reconciliation and de-colonization in the Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools (2008). Snyder’s co-authored article in Conflict Resolution Quarterly looks critically at the alternative dispute resolution system designed to address residential school lawsuits.
She is currently working on research related to the peacebuilding capacity of refugee women after a 2007 trip to Burmese refugee camps in Thailand funded by IDRC. Dr. Snyder’s chapter in Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution explores her interest in refugee women, empowerment and conflict transformation.
Dr. Snyder has three degrees in the field of peace and conflict studies: BA, peace studies, Manchester College; MA, international peace studies, University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., social science, Syracuse University in affiliation with the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
