Dr. Jenna Sapiano is a Senior Research Fellow at the Ottawa Dialogue and a Research Associate at the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews, an LLM in International Law, and an MSc in African Studies from the University of Edinburgh. She is a scholar of gender, peace, and security whose research examines women’s participation in peace processes, feminist approaches to mediation, and constitutional design in post-conflict transitions. Bridging international law, feminist theory, and critical peace studies, her work analyzes how legal and institutional frameworks shape inclusive governance and durable peace. She has held research fellowships at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Monash University’s Gender, Peace, and Security Centre (now Global, Peace and Security Centre), and has served as an expert consultant to UN Women and Interpeace. Her forthcoming monograph, Gender, Peace and Post-Conflict Constitutions (Bristol University Press, 2025), provides a sustained analysis of how post-conflict constitutions influence peace outcomes and women’s rights. She has published widely on intersectionality in peace negotiations, gender expertise in mediation, and constitutional protections in transitional contexts, and is co-authoring a monograph as part of a project on Indigenous and non-Indigenous conflict resolution processes in Turtle Island.