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Kai Brand-Jacobsen
(Mr., Director)

Organisation:
PATRIR - Department of Peace Operations

Nationality:
United Kingdom

Profile:

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

Consultancies: He consults broadly for UN agencies, national and international organizations and governments, specializing in the development and design of mediation and peace processes; peacebuilding programs; conflict sensitivity; strengthening governmental, inter-governmental and NGO policies and institutional capacities for peacebuilding, humanitarian aid, and international development cooperation; deployment of civil peace services; early warning and comprehensive prevention; and post-war recovery. He has also worked extensively assisting organizations and agencies in organizational and program development, design, monitoring and implementation.

Training: He has provided more than 260 training programs in 36 countries to governments, national and international organizations, UN agencies, conflict party leadership, diplomats, NGOs, community-based practitioners, military, and others in the fields of systemic peacebuilding, conflict transformation, mediation, early warning and comprehensive prevention, war to peace transitions, reconciliation and healing after violence, strategic peacebuilding, and designing peacebuilding programs. In cooperation with the International Peace and Development Training Centre (IPDTC) he works closely with governments, UN agencies, and organizations who have requested training support to design specialized programs customized to meet the specific needs, objectives, and operating environments in which they work to strengthen their peacebuilding capacity and effectiveness.

Advisory Support: He is an advisor to several governments, national and international organizations and agencies, and foreign ministries.
Public Lectures and Teaching: He has taught and lectured at universities across Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia including Royal Roads University (Canada), the United Nations University (Japan), The European Peace University (Austria), and many others, and has been invited to provide more than 600 public talks in 28 countries.

Governance: From 2005 – 2007 he served as a member of the International Governing Council of Nonviolent Peaceforce. In 2007 he became a member of the Steering Committee of the European Network of Civil Peace Services (EN.CPS).

Publications and Research: He has written and published widely, and was co-author, together with Johan Galtung and Carl Jacobsen, of Searching for Peace: The Road to TRANSCEND (Pluto, 2000 & 2002). He is a member of the Executive Board of the Journal of Peace and Development and an Editor of Oxford University Press’ Peace Encyclopedia. He has contributed to several publications, and his current areas of research focus on peace processes, early warning and comprehensive prevention and improving peacebuilding in policy and practice.

Country / Regional Experience: Kai has worked in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, southern Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Aceh-Indonesia, Russia, Moldova, South Eastern Europe, Mexico, Colombia, Somalia, North America, and the Middle East at the invitation of governments, inter-governmental organisations, UN agencies, and local organisations and communities.

Regions or countries of interest:
Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, southern Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Aceh-Indonesia, Russia, Moldova, South Eastern Europe, Mexico, Colombia, Somalia, North America, and the Middle East