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International Conference “Civil Conflict Transformation – Ambitions and Reality”
Location: Haus der Evangelischen Kirche | Bonn
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"It's a lot I am taking back"
Interview with course participants from Afghanistan and Ghana
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Trainer

Susanne Arlinghaus

Areas of expertise:

Moderation, project management, team building and organisational development

Background:

Between 1998 and 2003, Susanne Arlinghaus was a project collaborator of the German Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ - Association for Technical Co-operation). Her core areas as a trainer are the conception and execution of interactive trainings in subject areas such as cooperation management, negotiation, consulting skills, project management, team building and organisational development.

Since 2003, Susanne Arlinghaus has been working as a freelance trainer, moderator and consultant for organisations in the field of development aid work, German municipalities and private enterprises. 

Alexander Austin

Areas of expertise:
Peace and conflict dynamics in Afghanistan, India and Sri Lanka, the links between organized crime / trafficking and peace and conflict processes.

Background:

Alex has been working as an independent consultant in both the practical and theoretical sides of the field of peacebuilding and conflict transformation for thirteen years.

He has focused on the peace and conflict dynamics in the Afghanistan, India and Sri Lanka as well as organised crime and human trafficking and their inter-linkages to peace and conflict processes.

His leisure activities include a great delight in radio plays and audio books, cycling beyond what is sensible and reading to people, especially ghost stories where he takes pleasure in trying to spook his family, friends and colleagues. He is a fan of all types of humour but by choice listens frequently to black, dry and British humour. He lives in and loves the city of Berlin and is constantly off to explore derelict, industrial buildings.

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Beatrix Austin

Areas of expertise:

Conflict transformation, dialogue and reconciliation in the Western Balkans, promotion of peace in post-conflict regions and coming to terms with the past

 

Background:

Beatrix Austin (formerly Schmelzle) is a research assistant and coordinator and co-editor of the Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation. Her research interests are Conflict transformation, dialogue and reconciliation in the Western Balkans and the Middle East. She is also involved in the monitoring of civil-society peace activities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and is working on her doctoral thesis on peace building in post-conflict regions and coming to terms with the past.

Beatrix Austin has worked for many organizations, including Search for Common Ground, Seeds of Peace, Public Conversations Project (all USA) and International Alert (UK). She is one of the founding members of the Vienna Association for Conflict Management Partners and of the trainer team of the Vienna School of Negotiation (Austria). She is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School (Master in Public Administration, Harvard University, USA) and made a Diploma in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin.

 

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Sosan Azad

Areas of expertise:

Intercultural competence, mediation and conflict management

Background:


Sosan Azad is recognized as a mediator and trainer of the Bundesverbandes Mediation. She offers seminars and workshops on the topics of intercultural competence, mediation and conflict management. As coordinator she is also responsible for the Department of Intercultural Mediation at the mediation office and leads a mid-year training group.

Sosan Azad has additional qualifications as a systemic consultant and therapist, supervisor and trainer of thinking time. She finished her studies in social education in Berlin. Since more than 12 years she is working in intercultural relations in Berlin.



Jutta Bangel

Areas of expertise:

Strategic communication, media development, development politics and co-operation esp. in Latin America

Background:

Jutta Bangel worked as a journalist and editor for both public broadcast services and different print media and specialized in political affairs and development politics in Latin America. She spent two years as a media expert providing technical advice to a network of rural community radios of the National Bishop Conference of Brazil (CNBB). Subsequently, she worked with the German Development Service (DED) and its Brazilian partner organizations as consultant and trainer in strategic communications.

After her return to Germany in 2003 she continued to work as a journalist and freelance trainer for a variety of governmental and non-governmental organisations, moreover Jutta Bangel gets involved with international election observation with the European Commission and the OSCE since 2005. 

Isabella Bauer

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David Becker

Areas of expertise:

Psychology, trauma and refugee work, dealing with the past, consulting

Background:

After having worked for many years with victims of political persecution in Latin America David Becker is now based at the International Academy for Innovative Education, Psychology and Economy (INA) at the Free University of Berlin, of which he is Vice President. In 2002 he was co-founder of the Office for Psychosocial Issues (OPSI) at the International Academy, through which he works as a consultant for international organisations in reference to psychosocial projects in regions of conflict and war, recently in particular in the Gaza Strip, Tajikistan and Colombia.

David Becker has published extensively on the issues of trauma, human rights, and dealing with the past. Additionally, since 2008 he is "Privatdozent" (German academic degree of professor) at the University of Hannover, Germany, where he teaches Social/Political Psychology.

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Hagen Berndt

Areas of expertise:

Civil conflict transformation, conflict analysis, religion and conflict, non-violent action, facilitation, mediation, consulting

Background:

Hagen Berndt studied Indology, Islamic Studies and Communication Science, with subsequent research visits in London and Sri Lanka. He was a radio journalist for Deutsche Welle and spent several years in India as a consultant for non-violent action and conflict transformation projects. Afterwards, he became first pedagogical director and then CEO of the Centre for Non-Violent Action KURVE Wustrow. 

At present, Hagen Berndt is a free-lance consultant and trainer for many organisations in Germany and abroad.

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Alexandra Bielecke

Areas of expertise:

Communication and conflict management, mediation

Background:

Alexandra Bielecke has an extensive education in the fields of communication and conflict management and a college degree in the Master's program mediation at the European University Viadrina. Her main interests are in addition to mediation in support of change processes in organizational and team development as well as individual and group supervision. She teaches and lectures in the "training in communication psychology" of the "Schulz von Thun – Institute of Communication", in the master's program mediation at the European University Viadrina, in the advanced studies "way out of the conflict" in Hamburg, for the judiciary in Brandenburg and Berlin, the Centre for Mediation, as well as in business and social institutions.

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Moe Boutros-Fischer

Areas of expertise:

Conflict transformation, conflict prevention, peacebuilding, safety

Background:

Moe Boutros-Fischer is a moderator, consultant and trainer. She deals with different themes like conflict transformation, conflict prevention, peacebuilding and personal safety. She is also active in the field of dealing with stressful work contexts. Her specialized knowledge has been used successfully by the Academy, since she has been working as trainer in the Qualification Courses for many years.

Kai Brand-Jacobsen

Areas of expertise:

Systemic peacebuilding, organisational development, early warning and comprehensive prevention

Background:

Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is Director of the Department of Peace Operations of PATRIR. He is an international expert in systemic peacebuilding, international development and humanitarian aid, design and implementation of mediation and peace processes, early warning and comprehensive prevention, and post war recovery. He consults widely for governments, foreign ministries, and international and national organizations. He is a co-founder and Director of the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR). He works as an advisor to several governments and international and national agencies, including the All Party Parliamentary Working Group (APPG) on Conflict Issues of the British Parliament.

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Karin Busch

Areas of expertise:

Advice on internationalization processes, supervision, intercultural communication, human resources development

Background:

For many years, Karin Busch operates in development cooperation in various countries for international institutions and organization. The focus of her long-term work abroad was initially the construction and organization of refugee camps. Later she worked as a project manager for the initiation and implementation of training activities in the areas of integrated rural development (focusing on water and health) in crisis and war zones. Since 1995 she has worked as a freelance consultant, supervisor and trainer. In 1999, she founded the company "Consulting for Intercultural Communication" in Bonn.

Roland Büth

Areas of expertise:

Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, mediation, working in intercultural teams

Background:

Roland Büth holds a Diploma in Geography, Anthropology and Sociology and completed a formation as a mediator (Friedensbildungswerk Cologne). He accompanied IDPs and human rights defenders with peace brigades international in Colombia and joined a disaster response operation after the earthquake in Haiti with Malteser International. Since June 2010, Roland works as Educational Consultant at the Academy for Conflict Transformation.

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Steffen Emrich

Area of Expertise:

Project work, development aid work, coaching, NGO management, city and regional planning

Background:

Steffen Emrich is a skilled trainer in adult education, coach and consultant with an academic background as city and regional planner. Thus he can offer experience in NGO management, training, experience in lobbying and marketing as well as hands on experience as a development aid worker (mostly in the Balkans and East Africa). Steffen Emrich possesses over 10 years of work experience in Germany and abroad mostly in the fields of conflict prevention, the reintegration of child soldiers as well as youth work and political education.

After having worked for NGOs for several years, he has decided to work self employed as a freelance consultant with his company Procorde.net recently.

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Hansjörg Enz

Areas of expertise:

Media, organisational development, conflict transformation 

Background: 

Hansjörg Enz is a trained primary and secondary teacher (University of Zürich), a journalist (MAZ Luzern and FU Berlin), a supervisor, a organizational developer (TRIAS. Grüningen) and a conflict consultant (Academy for Conflict Transformation).

From 2008 to 2010 he worked as a peace worker for EIRENE in media projects in Congo where he trained journalists in the context of Civil Peace Service.

Anita Enz

Areas of expertise:

Internal and external communication, Media Relations, environmental issues 

Background: 

Anita Enz studied at Zurich University and Lugano University and holds a diploma as an environmental specialist.

She works with the Provincial Government of Kanton Thurgau in Switzerland and is responsible for the Internal and External Communication as well as for Media Relations of the Cantonal Agency for Environment.

Tilman Evers

Areas of expertise:

Civil conflict resolution, conflict transformation, security policy of the EU

Background:

Tilman Evers studied political science and sociology, earned his doctorate and habilitated; he worked as a private lecturer at Universities and in adult education.

Tilman Evers is a founding member and chairman of Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V. He works internationally as a lecturer and consultant for conflict transformation and development cooperation related issues.

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Heidi Feldt

Areas of expertise:

Environmental politics, development aid work esp. with indigenous peoples in Latin America, indigenous peoples and biological diversity, developmental education and public relations

Background:

For over 20 years Heidi Feldt has been researching about developmental and environmental questions. Amongst others, she worked on the execution of programmes for resource management and protection in collaboration with agrarian cooperatives in El Salvador, and more recently with the Climate Alliance of European Cities with the Indigenous Rainforest Peoples. She specialized in the fields of governance and transparency concerning natural resources and the petroleum and mining industries. 

Today, Heidi Feldt operates as a consultant for developmental and environmental processes.

Diana Francis

Areas of expertise:

Conflict transformation, non-violent conflict management, mediation

Background:

Diana Francis is a freelance trainer and consultant who works with people trying to address political and ethnic conflict. For over 40 years she has been working on non-violent conflict management, mediation and reconciliation in England and in other countries. Most of her practical experience was gathered in the post-communist countries, particularly in former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus. She has also worked in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. She is the author of two books: "People, Peace and Power: Conflict Transformation in Action" (Pluto Press, 2002) and "Rethinking War and Peace" (Pluto Press, 2004).

Until recently she has been the chairperson of the British network "Committee for Conflict Transformation Support".

Sidonia Gabriel

Areas of expertise:

Conflict transformation, conflict analysis, impact assessment, human rights, role of youth in peace processes, organisational development

Background:

Sidonia Gabriel is a program officer at the Center for Peacebuilding (KOFF) of swisspeace mainly working in the areas of conflict analysis and impact assessment as well as conflict sensitivity. With the Civil Peace Service she gained practical experience in Liberia in the field of capacity building for peace with local peace and human rights organisations.

She holds a Master's degree in Sociology, Modern History and International Relations from the Universities of Basel and Zürich with a specialisation in conflict transformation with a Postgraduate Certificate for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation from the University of Coventry, UK.

Janel B. Galvanek

Areas of expertise:

Actors in conflict transformation, reintegration of ex-combattants

Background:

Janel B. Galvanek is an associate researcher at Berghof Conflict Research. Her research interests include the interaction between state and non-state actors during conflict, engaging local actors in conflict transformation (with a focus on Afghanistan), and the reintegration of ex-combatants, particularly child soldiers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Stefan Jansen

Areas of expertise:

Consultancy, non-violent conflict management, truth and reconciliation commissions, Human Rights

Background:

Stefan Jansen is a political scientist and co-founder of the consulting agency iber-consult. He has many years of working experience in development co-operation and as a consultant. He has worked for non-profit agencies as well as for private companies. Among his employers are the German Development Service (DED) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). 

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Sabine Ketels

Areas of expertise:

Personnel management and development, conflict transformation, mediation, consulting

Background:

Sabine Ketels is a pedagogue specialised on further education and a certified mediator and instructor for mediators. She was the Civil Peace Service Co-ordinator for the German Development Service (DED) in Peru. Before, she worked as an organisational consultant for a University, instructor for mediators and lecturer on mediation and conflict management. Furthermore she participated in research on intercultural communication.

At present, she works as a free-lance supervisor, trainer and coach in Germany and abroad.

Gudrun Kramer

Areas of expertise:

Conflict transformation, theories of civil society, concepts of peacekeeping and peacebuilding, democratisation processes, intercultural communication

Background:

Gudrun Kramer is the co-director of the Institute for Integrative Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (IICP, Vienna, Austria). In the nineties, she worked in Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia for several international organisations (UN, OSCE) and non-governmental organizations in the fields of human rights, return of refugees, post-conflict reconstruction, and community development. From 1999 to 2005 she was Program Director for projects related to conflict regions at the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR), where she was responsible for training courses designed to prepare civilians for peace-building activities in crisis areas. Through extensive research and her responsibilities for projects of the Austrian Foreign Ministry on conflict transformation in the South Caucasus, Asia and Africa, Gudrun Kramer has gained vast theoretical and practical expertise in the field of conflict transformation.

Manuela Leonhardt

Areas of expertise:

Moderation, early warning, economic dimensions of conflicts, conflict impact assessment

Background:

After her studies in cultural anthropology, Manuela Leonhardt has held positions with International Alert and GTZ and worked in West Africa, the Caucasus and South America.

Currently she is a trainer and freelance consultant working for various international organisations.

Simone Lindorfer

Areas of expertise:

Trauma work, systemic family therapy

Background:

Simone Lindorfer (PhD) is theologian, psychologist, systemic family therapist, trauma therapist and international consultant for psychosocial trauma work. She has intense working experience (more than 10 years) especially in the Great Lakes Region as consultant for trauma work and as trauma therapist with survivors of torture and political oppression in Germany and Austria.

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Joachim Mangold

Areas of expertise:

Consulting and Mediation

Background:

Joachim Mangold is an ethnologist and adult educator. Since 1990 he has been training leaders in political youth and adult education. He is active as trainer in conflict management since 1999. He also worked from 2000-2004 as a coach in the 4-Montat qualification courses of the Academy. Subsequently, he was employed until 2009 as Educational Consultant in the Academy for Conflict Transformation. Today he is working as a freelance trainer, consultant and mediator.

Denis Matveev

Areas of expertise:

Peacebuilding, conflict resolution, conflict analysis, organizational development

Background:

Denis Matveev is an international consultant, trainer and facilitator in the fields of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Denis has worked with NGOs, governments/authorities and intergovernmental organisations in Moldova-Transdniestria, Ukraine (Crimea), Georgia-Abkhazia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (incl. Nagorno-Karabakh), Romania, Sri Lanka and the UK. He is currently engaged as Adviser to Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), Project Director at the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) and Consultant to Nonviolent Peaceforce. He holds an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the European Peace University (EPU) in Stadtschlaining, Austria and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne. He has previously taught a Masters course at the EPU and now teaches a Masters course at the University of Basel.

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Ruth Mischnick

Area of expertise:

Conflict Counselling, Human Rights Work, Mediation

Background:

Ruth worked in post-war and post-crisis areas of Indonesia as a consultant for mediation, civil society and trauma issues with the German Church Development Service. She had been a consultant for psychosocial networks after catastrophes and disasters (Molukku, Aceh, Soth-Sudan, Uganda, Columbia) with the European Union and the UN (UNHCR). She worked as a coach of teams of international organisations in Uganda, Columbia, Peru and the Netherlands. Furthermore she worked in different areas of conflict counselling and mediation on Java, in Yemen, Kenya, in Palestine and East-Timor.

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Elke Müller

Areas of expertise:

Mediation, Supervision

Background:


Elke Mueller is a lawyer, mediator, and supervisor. The founder of the Constance School Mediation is mainly active in the areas of in-house and teammediation. She is a lecturer / trainer for the Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen), the universities of Konstanz, Hanover and Frankfurt/Oder and the Federal Chamber of Tax, Rechtsanwaltskammer Celle and many other universities and institutions.

 

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Jochen Neumann

Area of expertise:

Nonviolent conflict transformation, mediation, project planning, impact analysis, role of civil society

Background:

Jochen Neumann worked with non-governmental organisations in South Africa on community conflicts, mediation and reconciliation. Amongst his focal areas are the „do no harm“ approach and other impact analysis tools.

Currently, Jochen is a trainer and consultant in nonviolent conflict transformation and director of the Centre for Non-Violent Action KURVE Wustrow.

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Michele Parente

Areas of expertise:

Peace education, conflict management, peacebuilding

Background:

Michele Parente is social worker and peace and conflict consultant. In his work as trainer he includes experience from work in refugee camps in Bosnia-Herzegovina and managing projects to promote peace and nonviolence. In addition, he was already active as a peace worker in Croatia from 1998-2001. In 2004-2008 he was a freelancer on "peace education and conflict management" in Aachen and the socio-educational family assistance, especially in an intercultural field and work with families with a migrant background.
Since 2008 he leads the peace project "living with differences" by Pax Christi in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Ulrike Ramlow

Areas of expertise:

Conflict management, mediation, project planning, team building and organisational development, impact analysis

Background:

Ulrike Ramlow studied political science in Berlin and Aix-en-Provence with the focal points being processes of democratisation in the Arab World, gender and adult education. From 1994 to 2003 she worked as trainer and consultant in different countries on the topics conflict transformation, participation, intercultural learning, human rights and gender. From 2003 to 2008 she headed a Civil Peace Service project of KURVE Wustrow in Ramallah, Palestine.

Currently Ulrike Ramlow works as a freelance trainer, facilitator, coach and consultant for different organisations.

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Cordula Reimann

Areas of Expertise:

Gender and conflict

Background:

Cordula Reimann studied political science and international relations. Postgraduate research and doctorate on gender, conflict and peacebuilding in Bradford. Afterwards field research in South Asia, various publications, lectureships at Universities and a guest professorship in Graz, consultancy for numerous Swiss and international NGOs.

In July 2011, Cordula Reimann set up her own consultancy, coaching and training business called C-O-R-E.

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Ursula Renner

Areas of expertise:

Trauma, reconciliation and peace work

Background:

Ursula Renner is a historian and Slavist. After a praxis-orientated formation she lead a self-help-group for traumatized women. Since 1996, she is working in the Balkan for reconciliation and understanding. Since 1998, she has been working as a specialist of the forumZFD with ex-combattants in Serbia and Croatia.

Norbert Ropers

Area of expertise:

dialogue facilitation, peace mediation, systemic approaches to conflict transformation

Background:

Norbert Ropers has been the founder of the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management in 1993 and served as its director till 2004. From 2001 to 2008 he headed a comprehensive programme on conflict transformation and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka. Before that he worked on peace, security, development and global issues at the Institute for Development and Peace, the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.

At present, Norbert Ropers is director of the Berghof Foundation for Peace Support in Berlin (Germany).

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Stephanie Schell-Faucon

Areas of expertise:

Conflict transformation, dealing with the past, reconciliation work

Background:

Stephanie Schell-Faucon has lectured for many years in adult education at the University of Cologne and conducted her PhD research on conflict transformation and reconciliation in divided societies. Next to her professional work, she has always been involved in intercultural encounter work and dealing with the past. Initially she focussed on German-French exchanges. Since 1995, she has been repeatedly to South Africa and is a co-founder of the South African German Exchange Network (SAGEnet). From 2003 to 2007, she worked for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Sri Lanka, where she was responsible for the project "Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict Transformation" (FLICT).

Recently, Stephanie Schell-Faucon moved to GTZ headquarters, where she continues to work on the contribution of development cooperation to peace and security. 

Svenja Schmelcher

Areas of expertise:

Training and facilitation, coaching, mediation

Background:

Svenja Schmelcher is a social anthropologist and mediator. She has worked in the Philippines and in Sudan for the German Development Service (DED) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). Furthermore, she has worked free-lance as trainer, coach and mediator and is experienced in academic research and teaching.

Svenja Schmelcher is a an Educational Consultant at the Academy for Conflict Transformation. She is the tutor for the 9-week Qualification Courses and conducts the seminar series "Friedensarbeit als Beruf" ("Peacework as a profession").

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Günter Schönegg

Areas of expertise:

Management of conflicts linked to natural resources management, Civil Peace Service, project management

Background:

A theologist and educationalist by training, Günter Schönegg has been engaged in the field of development cooperation and civil peace service since the early nineties. He worked for and consulted organisations such as EIRENE, the German Development Service (DED), the Consortium Civil Peace Service and the Working Group on Development and Peace FriEnt.

Since 2009, Günter Schönegg acts as free-lance trainer and consultant and is a member of Peace Resources Group.

Roland Schüler

Areas of Expertise:

Intercultural Mediation

Background:

Roland Schüler studied Mathematics and Geography and has been working in the field of  peace education and peace work for more than 25 years. Since 1989 he is managing director of the "Friedensbildungswerk Köln e.V." where he is also in charge of the department of mediation.

He is a member of "Plattform Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung" (platform for civil conflict transformation) and active in the "Komitee für Demokratie und Grundrechte"(committee for democracy and basic rights).

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Hansjörg Schwartz

Areas of expertise:

Business Mediation, shareholder disputes, business succession, heritage mediation, conflicts in professional sports, transaction management

Background:

 

Hans Joerg Schwartz is a mediator and trainer in Mediation (BM). He works e.g. for the Federal Ministry of Justice as a mediator in international family disputes. He is also working as a teacher and consultant for several universities and colleges, including the European University Viadrina and the Constance School for Mediation. He also regularly publishes articles on topics such as "mediation in the corporate succession" or "heritage mediation".

 

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Nesrine Shibib

Areas of expertise:

Intercultural training and consulting with special focus on the Middle East and intercultural affairs in Germany.

Background:

Nesrine Shibib holds a MA degree in Translation and Islamic Studies from the University of Bonn. Since 2004 she has been engaged in different media projects tackling “the dialogue with the Islamic world” in Iraq, Jordan and Morocco. In addition, Nesrine Shibib has been working on issues of education and integration in Germany with the German Institute for Political Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) in Bonn.

Dirk Sprenger

Areas of expertise:

Crisis prevention and conflict transformation, impact analysis, security in crisis areas, facilitation, coaching

Background:

Dirk Sprenger was a Peace Brigades International team member before studying linguistics and philosophy. Already during his studies, he worked as a free-lance facilitator and trainer.

Today, Dirk Sprenger acts as consultant, trainer and facilitator for a number of organisations.

Sibylle Stamm

Areas of expertise:

Evaluation, conflict analysis and civilian peacebuilding

Background:

Sibylle Stamm is an independent consultant and trainer specializing in evaluation, conflict analysis, and conflict transformation. Based in the Middle East since 2004, she has provided evaluation and technical support services to a wide range of actors, including the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Lebanese Government, the UN, as well as international and local NGOs.

Sibylle is a member of the Swiss Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding, and co-founder of DROPS Community Progress (www.drops.ch). Sibylle received her MA in Political Science from the University of Zurich and is currently pursuing a PhD as an external doctoral researcher at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford (UK).

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Marijana Toma

Areas of expertise:

Transitional justice, oral history, human rights

Background:

Marijana Toma is working as Serbia Programme Coordinator for Impunity Watch, an international non-profit group, seeking to promote accountability for past atrocities in countries emerging from a violent past, with programmes in Guatemala and Serbia. A historian by training, she has been involved in numerous transitional justice projects in the region and internationally. Prior to joining Impunity Watch, she worked for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Mission in Serbia on legal labour migration projects, and the Humanitarian Law Centre, leading human rights organization in the Balkans, where she worked as Project and Programme Coordinator on documenting war crimes, oral history, forced disappearances and transitional justice. She also worked on several projects with the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), while studying for an MPhil in transitional justice at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Ms Toma has published extensively in the fields of transitional justice, truth commissions, history, oral history methodology and human rights violations.

Markus Troja

Areas of expertise:

Business mediation, mediation in the public sector, communication, conflict management

Background:

Mark Troy is a political scientist, mediator and trainer in Mediation (BM). Besides the practical work as mediator and moderator for example in team conflicts, shareholder disputes in the areas of environment, construction and public planning, he has extensive experience as a trainer and coach for the mediation training of the german AnwaltAkademie (DAA) or the University of Oldenburg. He also has worked as a lecturer and trainer in communication and conflict management at numerous universities, organizations and corporations. He regularly publishes articles about conflict management in politics, economy and society.

 

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Barbara Unger

Areas of expertise:

Systemic conflict transformation, Dealing with the past, consulting

Background:

Barbara Unger is a political scientist with a focus on development and gender issues. She is an alumna of the graduate programme of the German Development Institute (DIE). Her experiences abroad include field work for Peacebrigades International in Guatemala.

Barbara is deputy director of the Berghof Foundation for Peace Support. She counsels various NGOs in the field of conflict transformation, conducts research and trainings.

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Undine Whande

Areas of expertise:

Conflict transformation, mediation, facilitation, coaching, transitional justice

Background:

Undine Whande is a Social Anthropologist (PhD) who has worked as a practitioner in conflict transformation and social change for the past twelve years. Born in Germany she lived and worked in the SADC region between 1996 and 2006 and currently resides in Cologne, Germany where she serves as Personnel Accompaniment Officer for the German Development Service and runs her own consultancy, Caleyedoscope Conflict & Culture Coaching. In the often very challenging context of political and social transition in post-1994 South Africa, Undine Whande developed her expertise as a conflict mediator, coach and facilitator in social change processes. She has worked with people from a wide variety of social and economic backgrounds and from different regions of the world. In particular, her work accompanying the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and with organizations dedicated to grassroots memory, dialogue and reconciliation work has sensitized her to the complex nuances of action and inquiry in a context of transition and social (in)justice.

Undine Whande is a mediator (Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town), social change facilitator (Community Development Resource Association, Cape Town) and systemic coach (ineko, Cologne).

Cornelis A. Wiebering

Areas of expertise:

Intercultural communication, mediation, negotiation, organizational development, consultancy, project management, impact assessment

Background:

Cornelis Wiebering studied physics and philosophy, focussing on the social role of technique and science, later on further training and studies in mediation, organizational development and training methods. Among numerous other experiences in the field of conflict transformation, Cornelis Wiebering also was a Peace and Conflict Consultant for Forum Civil Peace Service.

At present, Cornelis Wiebering works as a consultant, trainer and coach for a variety of institutions in the fields of peacebuilding and development cooperation.

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