Oussama Safa is a dispute resolution professional who specializes in negotiation, mediation, facilitation and peacebuilding processes. He has more than 30 years of experience working on four different continents with a wide range of audiences and stakeholders. He has led mediated interventions, designed and facilitated dialogue processes and provided strategic negotiation advice and hands-on training and capacity building in different conflict settings ranging from civil wars, constitutional reforms, labor disputes, peacekeeping, democratic transitions and judicial reforms, among others. Mr. Safa was also the director of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, a Beirut-based think-tank working on public policies, governance, democratic elections, peacebuilding and development in Lebanon and the Middle East and North Africa Region. He has vast experience in policy research, advocacy and capacity building; he is also a visiting lecturer, since 2004, in the master’s program in Human Rights and Conflict Management at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa; he has also lectured at the Université Saint-Jospeh and the Lebanese University, both in Beirut. Mr. Safa is co-author of The Little Fellow: Guidelines for Happier Living, Life Skills Training Manual for Children (2015). He holds graduate degrees in international affairs and international development from The American University, Wahington, DC and an undergraduate in political science from the American University of Beirut.