Sara Ahlstrom

Associate faculty

Humanitarian Studies

Sara Ahlstrom is an associate faculty member for the Master of Arts in Conflict Management program. She is an academic, practitioner, author and teacher who specializes in working with local government, organizational and community conflicts. Her current doctoral research focus is on local government and how trust impacts a municipality’s willingness to collaborate with each other.

Experience

Ahlstrom has a breadth of experience as a scholar-practitioner including working with a variety of processes from negotiation, mediation, arbitration, facilitation and restorative justice processes including Community Conferencing. Current work specializes in engagement with local government to help create a collaborative environment matching services and planning to benefit citizens and enhance places in which people can live, work and play.

Education

2010
Master of Arts in Conflict Analysis and Management

Royal Roads University

2004
Human Resources Diploma with Distinction

MacEwan University

1997
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

University of Saskatchewan