Sahar Ammar is a peacebuilding and mediation practitioner with extensive experience supporting dialogue and political processes in complex conflict settings. She currently serves as a Program Officer at Swisspeace and previously worked as a mediation practitioner at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. Sahar has also collaborated with several international institutions, including DCAF, the Essex Transitional Justice Network, and the International Center for Transitional Justice. Her work includes advising and accompanying Track I mediation and negotiation processes, including those leading to ceasefire agreements and power-sharing settlements. She also designs, facilitates, and advises on multi-track and multi-stakeholder dialogue, mediation, and reconciliation processes. Sahar provides strategic advice to national and local stakeholders engaged in political and peacebuilding processes, as well as to United Nations entities and mechanisms working in conflict and post-conflict contexts on issues related to civil society participation, inclusive approaches, and political analysis. She also delivers capacity-building on peacebuilding, mediation, negotiations, transitional justice, conflict analysis for a wide range of international and national actors working in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Sahar regularly contributes as an expert in courses organized by Swisspeace and the University of Basel, as well as other institutions including The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Sahar has contributed to several research projects and has published widely on issues related to reconciliation, power-sharing settlements, national dialogue and transitional justice. Her professional experience spans multiple conflict contexts, including Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon, Cameroon, and Afghanistan. Sahar holds a multidisciplinary academic background in international law, mediation, and transitional justice.

Participant in: October 2024 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes