Suyheang Kry is a peace practitioner, a researcher and an accredited mediator with extensive experience in gender equality, peacebuilding, strategic planning, and feminist leadership. She is currently serving as the Executive Director of Women Peace Makers (WPM) and has exponentially grown the organization from its grassroots beginnings to a national hub for work on the intersection of gender and peace issues. Heang is also a recognized advocate and strategist for the inclusion of women, minority, and other marginalized groups as key stakeholders in community leadership, decision making, sustainable development and peacebuilding. With a strong background in participatory research, community mobilization, nonviolent communication, and training facilitation, she is best known for bringing people together around key issues and navigating organizational and personal growth and transformation. Heang is also a co-developer of a homegrown participatory peace research methodology known as Facilitative Listening Design (FLD) employed in various conflict and sensitive settings. Heang holds a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
Heang is also a recognized advocate for the inclusion of women, minority, and other marginalized groups as key stakeholders in decision making, and sustainable development and peacebuilding. With a strong background in research, community mobilization, gender sensitive mediation, nonviolent communication, and training facilitation, she is best known for bringing people together around key issues and navigating organizational and personal growth and transformation. Co-developer of a homegrown peace research methodology known as Facilitative Listening Design (FLD), Heang is an expert in participatory approaches for change and has been bridging communities with government and academia for nearly a decade. Heang holds a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, and a Bachelor of Education from the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
