Dea Fetiu is a peacebuilder, mediator, and legal researcher from Kosovo, with a particular focus on gender and justice in post-conflict societies in the Western Balkans. She holds a law degree and currently works as a Project Manager at the Group for Legal and Political Studies (GLPS), where she supports the design and implementation of gender-sensitive court monitoring methodologies and manages projects on women’s property rights and institutional responses to gender-based violence.

Dea also serves as the Vice President of the Governing Board of the Dialogue Academy Network of Alumnae (DANA), a cross-community network supported by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. In this role, she contributes to planning and facilitating regional exchanges between young women from Prishtina and Belgrade and has delivered trainings on intergroup dialogue, communication, and youth engagement in peacebuilding. Her work focuses on promoting inclusive dialogue and fostering cooperation across communities in the region.

She has completed Levels 2 and 3 in Conflict Resolution and Mediation through the Open College Network in Northern Ireland and applies these skills in both community-level initiatives and training settings. Dea was part of the research and editorial team for Kosovo’s first national study on the long-term consequences of war-time sexualized violence and continues to be involved in research, capacity-building, and advocacy efforts addressing gender, justice, and peacebuilding in the Western Balkans

By joining MWMN, she hopes to learn from other practitioners, share her experience working in the Western Balkans, and contribute to inclusive and gender-responsive mediation practices.