Yves-Renee Jennings Adjunct Senior Professorial Lecturer SIS Faculty
- Degrees
- PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Virginia
- Bio
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Biography
Dr. Yves-Renée Jennings holds a Ph.D. from the George Mason University School for Peace and Conflict Resolution and is a University of Massachusetts Boston Senior Fellow. She is the founder, owner and CED of Partnering for Sustainable Peace, LLC a Clover, SC for-profit company where she provides sound direction to the company and manages its operations and service delivery while keeping the company competitive and profitable and successful in its service delivery to its clients. She is currently a member of the Lake Wylie Rotary Club, District 7750. Until recently, she was the Rotary International District 7680 Peacebuilding, Conflict Prevention and Resolution Chair and an Institute for Economics and Peace Ambassador serving North Carolina. Dr. Jennings is a conflict resolution professional and scholar-practitioner with deep understanding of societal and structural issues that often contribute to social conflicts. She is interested in human development and empowerment within the context of transformation of social and structural barriers that hinder groups from fully realizing their potential. Dr. Jennings can conceptualize, design, implement, and evaluate collaborative process and social transformation projects and programs focusing on conflict resolution and peacebuilding, as well as leadership, group and community empowerment and development within a multi-cultural context. Dr. Jennings taught at the Department of Rights and International Studies at University of Azuay in Cuenca, Ecuador, at FLASCO (Facultad Latinamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador--Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences Headquarters Ecuador) in Quito, at the School of International Service at the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program at American University in Washington DC. She also taught at the Carter School at the George Mason University.
Dr. Jennings is currently the CEO of Partnering for Sustainable Peace LLC, a company she formed in 2022 to provide educational, training, research and project services to various types of clients. In 2009, Dr. Jennings co-founded Partners for Sustainable Peace (PSP), a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization that she co-founded in Virginia and served as Chief Executive Officer until 2014. In the past, she held a wide range of conflict resolution and peacebuilding positions and conducted mediation training and facilitation sessions for Northern Virginia Mediation Services, the U.S. Institute of Peace Haiti program, the Fairfax Country Public Schools system, the George Mason University International Student Office, and the Arlington area. Dr. Jennings has also traveled to Liberia, Dominican Republic, and Haiti for various professional activities and research related to conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and social transformation. She worked for the World Bank for over twenty years and held positions in personnel management, administration, budget and resource management, risk management, internal controls, and internal auditing collaborating with World Bank offices in Washington DC and around the world. Moreover, she worked with World Bank offices internationally, for instance, in Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Honduras, Venezuela and many African countries, such as Chad, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Rwanda, Senegal, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Togo. She worked in the private sector in Haiti, for over ten years, where she served as office manager overseeing many staff.
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Teaching
Spring 2024
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SISG-771 Topics in Int'l Neg/Conflt Res: International Negotiation
Summer 2024
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SISG-771 Topics in Int'l Neg/Conflt Res: International Negotiation
2024 Term 2
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SISG-771 Topics in Int'l Neg/Conflt Res: International Negotiation