Khulood Al-Saidi is the Women, Peace and Security Projects Manager at Beyond Borders Scotland.
An experienced practitioner in peacebuilding and conflict resolution, with extensive expertise spanning the MENA region, including Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, and Lebanon. She has led reconciliation, peacebuilding and capacity-building programmes for UN agencies and other distinguished international organisations, focusing on advancing the Women, Peace, and Security agenda by building the capacities of peace agents and local mediators, and integrating conflict- and gender-sensitive approaches into local and regional projects and initiatives.
As a guest author of Climate Change, Conflict, & Gender Insights and Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa, which is part of the Transboundary Environments Practitioner Briefing Series published by MEDRC, she highlighted the role of women ‘insider mediators’ and their critical roles in addressing resource-based conflicts and governance. Examples of women’s roles in addressing disputes over water access in Yemen, as well as women’s roles in natural resource governance to address resource-related conflict in Sudan, are used.
Khulood is the former manager of the 1325 Women in Conflict Fellowship Programme, a WPS adviser and an Alumni network member since 2018, holding an MA in Advanced Practice in Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford, UK, as a Chevening Scholar.

Participant in: May 2018 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes