Alex Grzybowski
​MA

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Based in Victoria, Canada
Fluent in ​English

ALEX GRZYBOWSKI is a conflict resolution and prevention specialist with extensive experience in mediation and negotiation, stakeholder and public engagement, international and national intergovernmental relations, and relationships with indigenous people and disenfranchised communities. Grzybowski has spent the last 30 years directly assisting Governments, International Agencies, Corporations, Non-Government Organizations, and Indigenous and other communities in finding mutually acceptable and constructive ways to resolve their differences, build new relationships and implement joint initiatives. He is routinely retained to design and facilitate constructive discussions between real and potential adversaries; design and mediate negotiation processes; negotiate on behalf parties in conflict; lead multiparty complex project implementation initiatives; train and coach negotiators, facilitators and mediators; and provide strategic advice to government and organizational leaders who are responsible for preventing and resolving conflicts.

Grzybowski brings together a broad range of practical experience with the prevention and resolution of highly conflicted situations and the negotiation of innovative agreements designed to create new and more mutually beneficial relationships. For the past decade, Grzybowski has worked with a small team of professionals who collaborate with him to support successful completion of these difficult assignments.

Internationally, Grzybowski has led international mediation teams in Central Asia and Southeast Asia and participated in many conflict management and peace building projects around the world (Southeast Asia, Central Asia, South America, Africa, the South Pacific, Australia, and the Middle East). In 2008, he was retained as one of 7 members of the UN Mediation Standby Team, a team of mediation experts within the United Nations Mediation Support Unit. This one year appointment was renewed 3 times. As a standby team member he successfully completed assignments on issues in Central Asia, Western Sahara, Kyrgyzstan, Somalia, Iraq, Fiji, Afghanistan, and the Nile Basin. In Canada, Grzybowski has facilitated and negotiated the resolution of many highly conflicted natural resource issues nationwide involving all levels of government, private companies, and non-governmental organizations.

Grzybowski holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in natural resource management and planning and has written extensively on innovative and practical approaches to conflict resolution, conflict prevention and partnership development. He has been successfully mediating and negotiating agreements internationally and within Canada for the past 30 years and has more than 6000 days logged in the field. His track record for building agreements is that the vast majority of his assignments result in some form of agreement, resolution or joint initiative.