Policy & Practice

mediterranean women mediators network turkey antenna recent visit to the turkish parliament

Training

  • Negotiation and Mediation Skills, Training for the Women Ambassadors of the Arab League, Cairo, October 2023.
  • Negotiation and Mediation Skills, UNITAR training for Qatar Diplomatic Service, February 2023.
  • Mediterranean Women Mediators Network, training of Turkish and Kurdish women civil society leaders in negotiation and mediation skills, Diyarbakir, October 2019.
  • World Bank Group, Short term consultant (mediations and various conflict resolution trainings conducted in countries listed), 2011-present
  • Regional Mediator (Turkey, Georgia, Azerbeijan, Armenia, Kosovo), October 2011-present. Certified DISC trainer, Trainings in Conflict Competency, Basic Negotiation Skills Diversity and Inclusion Program, Trainer for Unconscious Bias module.
  • Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey, conflict resolution and mediation training for Turkish diplomats and foreign diplomats from Kenya, PLO, and Somalia.
  • Negotiating with the Public, training for TURKCELL executives, June 2014. Intercultural Negotiation Skills, training for Turkcell, June 2017.
  • CONTACT South Asia Program trainer, School for International Training, Graduate Institute, Kathmandu Nepal, December 2015.
  • Mediation training for the Ombuds office of Turkey, 13-18 January 2014, Ankara.
COnsulting

For the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE):

  • OSCE High Level Retreat with OSCE Ambassadors, invited expert on gender and inclusive mediation, Vienna, Austria, 3-4 November 2014. 
  • Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), OSCE Mediation and Dialogue Expert, selected for the mediation roster in August 2015 – present
  • Lead researcher and consultant on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Internal Assessment of Women Inclusion in OSCE-led Peace Processes, Mediation Support Team, Conflict Prevention Center, OSCE, September 2024 – June 2025.
  • Trainer, ODIHR Dialogue and Coalition Building Workshop for Women, Kosovo, 24 – 26 February 2025. 
  • Mediation Training for Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Staff (lectures and modules on communication skills for mediators, inclusive mediation process design, and dialogue process design), Vienna, Austria, 13 – 17 May 2024. 
  • OSCE Course on mediation for field staff, invited expert on inclusivity and mediation processes, Vienna, Austria, 14-16 October 2015.
  • For the Ottawa Dialogue: 
  • Research Coordinator, “Engaging Civil Society to Rebuild Peace Prospects – Canada – Myanmar IDRC Project” (International Development Research Council of Canada and Ottawa Dialogue).
  • “Theories of Change in Peacebuilding”, workshop for Burmese humanitarian aid and peacebuilding NGO staff in Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, 9-11 November 2024. 
  • FOR THE TURKISH MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
  • Advisor to Special Envoy Ambassador Olgan Bekar for Somalia-Somaliland Dialogue, 2019
  • Facilitator, Somalia and Somaliland Academics Dialogue, with Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs sponsorship, April 2016-present.
  • PUC-Rio, Global South Unit for Mediation, BRICS Policy Center, Brazil, Winter School on Mediation, lecturer, affiliate, curriculum development on mediation.