Robin Neustaeter

Dr. Robin Neustaeter serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Adult Education at St. Francis Xavier University, where she teaches Conflict Resolution, Adult Learning, and women’s leadership. With over 20 years of community education experience in peacebuilding, social justice, and community development across Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe, her work centers on transformative conflict as catalyst for individual and societal change.

Her academic credentials include:

• PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba (2015)
• Master of Education in Adult Education, Mount Saint Vincent University (2004)
• Bachelor of Arts in Conflict Resolution and International Development, Menno Simons College/University of Winnipeg (2001)

Neustaeter’s research pioneers peace ethnography examining women’s lived experiences in conflict zones through feminist lenses. She investigates grassroots peacebuilding in rural contexts, nonviolent social movements, and community-based conflict transformation, emphasizing how adult education fosters resilience and social change. Her fieldwork highlights the intersection of gender, rurality, and everyday peace practices.

Analysis of her 2019-2025 publications reveals three dominant trajectories: (1) digital preservation of feminist organizing (e.g., HERSTORIES archive), (2) historical educational movements like Antigonish’s drama-based community development, and (3) evolving frameworks for anti-racist and women-centered peace education. These strands consistently center marginalized voices while bridging academic theory and community action.

Her extensive volunteer work with peacebuilding, migration, indigenous rights, and family literacy initiatives demonstrates deep community integration. As both a mother and fibre artist, she embodies the creative-praxis connection central to her scholarship on embodied learning and community care.