Rena Ramkay
GDCR Instructor
Rena is highly skilled in consensus-building, mediation, facilitation, restorative justice, Insight and interest-based approaches to resolving conflict gained through 10 years of developing and running the Mediation Centre at Carleton University and eight years as a consultant in conflict services. She has extensive experience in conducting needs assessments, designing training programs and delivering workshops in various topics of conflict resolution for hundreds of clients as diverse as advanced mediators, teachers, human resource professionals, counsellors, lawyers, social workers and activists, trade negotiators, commercial arbitrators and mediators, police and military professionals and community leaders, among others.
Rena has engaged in research in conflict, theory, analysis and resolution, program development, management and ongoing evaluation skills, and has extensive experience working with different conflict values, resulting from age, ability, ethnocultural background, gender, status or socioeconomic position. Her work over the last five years has been international and focused on working with the Ministry of Justice on ADR and legal reform in Vietnam, programming for conflict-affected children and youth in various African countries, advocacy for violence prevention globally and addressing gang and drug violence among youth in Mexico.
Rena currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Global Platform for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), is the elected Regional Representative for the US, Canada and Mexico to the GPPAC International Steering Group, co-chairs the Conflict Prevention Working Group at Peacebuild – the Canadian Peacebuilding Network and acts as an associate and board member of the Centre for Conflict Education and Research at Carleton University.