Anna Snyder

Anna Snyder serves as Associate Professor in Conflict Resolution Studies at Menno Simons College, Canadian Mennonite University, Canada, specializing in refugee women's transnational agency and peacebuilding.

Her research investigates how exiled women's organizations like the Women's League of Burma (WLB) develop diaspora networks for social change despite decades-long displacement. She pioneered the concept of transnational bridgebuilding—sustaining cross-boundary networks for nonviolent transformation—and documents WLB's critical role in Myanmar's peace process, including achieving 30% constitutional gender quotas and training ethnic female negotiators. Her work spans gendered conflict resolution, refugee camp activism, and diaspora mobilization.

Publications like her 2017 book analyze refugee women's strategic networking across Peace Studies, Gender Studies, and Refugee Studies domains, revealing how transnational activism transforms victimhood narratives into political leadership. Key subfields include constitutional reform advocacy, ethnic organization capacity-building, and diaspora-origin state engagement.

Dr. Snyder completed an IPRA Foundation grant project examining WLB's peacebuilding contributions through fieldwork in Yangon, interviewing organizational leaders about their role in Myanmar's democratic transition.