MGC--Meet our Educators

Lejla Bratovic
Professor

Lejla Bratovic is the Executive Director of the Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County,offering accessible mediation and training services throughout the county. Her latest projects at CRC are establishing partnerships with the District Attorney’s Office and the Probation Department to implement a restorative justice process called Neighborhood Courts program, and with the County Superior Court on housing related mediations in a second most unaffordable county based on housing in the US. She was a co-founder of Global Majority, an NGO dedicated to the promotion of nonviolent conflict resolution through education, training, advocacy, and mediation. Through Global Majority, Lejla initiated and executed programs locally and globally focusing on “Promoting Peace through Dialogue,” encouraging the use of interest-based negotiation as a preferred method for conflict resolution. She is a Senior Weinstein International Mediation Fellow, where she previously assisted complex multiparty mediations at the JAMS San Francisco office, and participated in the “Making Peace Our Business” initiative, focused on mediating violent conflicts over natural resources. She was an Ariane de Rothschild fellow on social entrepreneurship and cross-cultural dialogue at Cambridge, UK. She specializes in mediation and training and consults with governmental institutions, international organizations, United Nations agencies, educational institutions and community-based organizations. She spends her volunteering time at peace focused youth
initiatives.

Originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lejla came to the United States as a refugee in 1993. She holds a Master’s degree in International Policy Studies and a Certificate in Conflict Resolution from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She is a dual citizen of Bosnia and the US, currently residing in California with her husband and a baby girl.

She is an advocate for peace and nonviolence.