SUZANNE FAELNAR

Suzanne Faelnar is an independent consultant in Human Security and Systems-Thinking Strategy, with 20 years of humanitarian leadership operating at the complex intersection of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), Counter-Terrorism, and Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (PCVE). She is the Convenor of Z Group Global, a multisectoral network focused on peace, sustainable development, and security, and President and Co-founder of Network Empowering Transformative Societies (N.E.T.S.), Inc., advocating for environmental justice and security. A Member of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Community of Practice on Human Security, she bridges field practice with global frameworks. Her relevant training includes the UNITAR Leaders for Free and Open Indo-Pacific Sea and Human Security Program, the UN DESA Program on Government Innovation for Social Inclusion, and graduate coursework in International Relations and Diplomacy at Schiller International University in London, UK. Authorized by former AFP Chief of Staff General Romeo Brawner Jr., she represented the Armed Forces of the Philippines via the Operations Research Center of the Philippine Army (ORC-PA) as a civilian expert at the U.S. DoD Irregular Warfare Center on the Archipelagic Whole-of-Nation approach. Her abstract on the Archipelagic Laboratory for civil-military cooperation was selected by the NATO CCOE for a case study exhibition at acaCIMICs in The Hague. A delegate to the closed-door Asia-Europe Counter-Terrorism Dialogues in Brussels, Berlin, and Jakarta, she has also guest-lectured for the AFP Civil-Military Operations School, Philippines. Ms. Faelnar holds a BA in Mass Communication from Assumption College.

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