Sahar Tabaja
Global Practice Lead, Peace, Stability, and Transition, Chemonics
Sahar Tabaja is a conflict specialist with more than 15 years of experience designing and managing stabilization, governance, P/CVE, and peacebuilding programs in the Middle East. Her work has focused on exploring how youth, women, civil society, and local actors can positively change governance practices, alter conflict systems, and enable societal peace in fragile environments. Ms. Tabaja firmly believes in a local systems approach to understanding conflict and enabling locally innovated, led, and owned solutions to conflict and development challenges.
Ms. Tabaja joined Chemonics as stabilization technical advisor with USAID’s Lebanon Community Support Program and now serves as the peace, stability, and transition practice lead. Before joining Chemonics, she worked as an independent consultant with clients such as UNDP, USAID, and Mercy Corps. Previously, she managed and led programs in Lebanon, Yemen, and Turkey/Syria at ARK, a stabilization consultancy, for clients including the U.K., E.U., Canadian START, Dutch, and Danish Ministries of Foreign Affairs.
Ms. Tabaja joined Chemonics as stabilization technical advisor with USAID’s Lebanon Community Support Program and now serves as the peace, stability, and transition practice lead. Before joining Chemonics, she worked as an independent consultant with clients such as UNDP, USAID, and Mercy Corps. Previously, she managed and led programs in Lebanon, Yemen, and Turkey/Syria at ARK, a stabilization consultancy, for clients including the U.K., E.U., Canadian START, Dutch, and Danish Ministries of Foreign Affairs.