Associate Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Lyn Snodgrass has an Honours (Psychology), MA (Conflict Resolution) and DPhil (Conflict Transformation and Management). Her research, transdisciplinary at the interstices of Politics, Psychology and Conflict Resolution, interrogates deep-rooted, intractable conflict. Her current focus is the role of collective emotion (hate and humiliation) and communal memory in the manifestations of violence. As scholar-practitioner she specialises in conflict management interventions, training in conciliation, mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution systems design with an emphasis on Africa.
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