Hind Aboud Kabawat is a Syrian-Canadian international counsel, Director of Interfaith Peacebuilding at George Mason University's Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution and deputy head of the Syrian Negotiation Commission's Geneva Office.

Career

Hind Kabawat is the deputy head of the Syrian Negotiation Commission's Geneva Office, which is headed by Ambassador Abdullatif Dabbagh, former Syrian ambassador to the UAE. The Syrian Negotiation Commission was formerly known as the High Negotiations Committee (HNC). In her position at the then HNC, she participated in all eight rounds of the

Geneva peace talks on Syria (2017) The Geneva peace talks on Syria in 2017, also called the Geneva IV, V, VI, VII, & VIII talks, were peace negotiations between the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition under the auspices of the United Nations. The Geneva IV talks took pla ...

. Hind Kabawat also serves as Director of Interfaith Peacebuilding at George Mason University's Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution (CRDC). As part of her position at CRDC, she directs CRDC's Syria program, which includes yearly overseas seminars in which she serves as an adjunct professor for graduate and undergraduate students to learn about conflict resolution interventions and civil society development. Through this program, she has also directed civil society and interfaith collaboration training for Syrians of various ages and with IDP and refugee status. Hind Kabawat is a founding member of Tastakel, a women's center dedicated to using non-violence and dialogue to address the ongoing conflict in Syria. This includes the running of multiple women's centers in Syria which provide education and counseling services, as well as hosting workshops on political engagement and peace-building for Syrian women both inside Syria and living as refugees in neighboring countries. Until 2015, Hind Kabawat was a Senior Program Officer at the

United States Institute of Peace The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an American Federal government of the United States, federal institution tasked with promoting conflict resolution and prevention worldwide. It provides research, analysis, and training to individual ...

. She formerly served as an advisory board member and consultant for the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...

and is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post. From 1989 to 2014, Hind worked as international counsel in various law firms in Toronto.

Awards

In 2007, Hind Kabawat was named a Peacemaker in Action by the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. In 2009, Hind received the Public Diplomacy Award from CRDC at

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...

Education

Hind Kabawat has a BA in Economics from Damascus University, and a law degree from the Arab University in Beirut. She holds an MA in International Relations from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and certificates in Conflict Resolution and Strategy Leadership from the University of Toronto and in Negotiation from Harvard University.

References

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