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CAS Civilian Peacebuilding Essentials Program 2018/19 Faculty List & Program Management
Last Name First Name Institutional Affiliation Position Module1 Email-Address
AGOSTI Julie swisspeace Intern, Training Entire Course [email protected]
BÄCHTOLD Stefan swisspeace Associated Expert, Analysis & Impact
Training Course 1: ToC [email protected]
BALTHASAR Dominik swisspeace Senior Researcher, State-hood
Thematic Block 1: FC&SB (lead) [email protected]
BAUMGARTNER Elisabeth swisspeace Co-Head of Dealing with the Past
Thematic Block 3: DwP [email protected]
BERNHARD Anna swisspeace Program Officer, Analysis & Impact Introductory Module [email protected]
DITTLI Roland swisspeace Head of Analysis & Im-pact
Training Course 1: ToC [email protected]
1 Abbreviations
• Training Courses: ToC – Theories of Change in Fragile Contexts; PVC – Preventing Violent Conflicts; HR&CT – Human Rights & Conflict Transformation • Thematic Blocks (TB 1-5): TB1-FC&SB: Fragility, Conflict & Statebuilding; BC&PB – Business, Conflict & Peacebuilding; DwP – Dealing with the Past;
MPB – Mediation & Peacebuilding; GC&PB – Gender, Conflict & Peacebuilding
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Last Name First Name Institutional Affiliation Position Module1 Email-Address
FRANCO Luisa Specialist in Ethnic Ar-chives and Oral Memory Projects
Introductory Module [email protected]
FRIEDMANN Rémy Desk Human Security and Business, FDFA Senior Advisor Thematic Block 2:
BC&PB [email protected]
GOETSCHEL Laurent swisspeace and Univer-sity of Basel
Director of swisspeace and Professor of Political Science
Introductory and Concluding Module [email protected]
GÜRLER Sibel swisspeace Head of Statehood and Business & Peace
Thematic Block 2: BC&PB (lead) [email protected]
HALDEMANN (tbc) Frank Geneva Academy of In-ternational Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Co-Director of the Master in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Thematic Block 3: DwP [email protected]
HÖRLER Tania swisspeace Senior Program Officer, Analysis & Impact Applied Module [email protected]
HOTTINGER (tbc) Julian Human Security Division, FDFA Senior Mediation Expert Thematic Block 4:
LANZ David swisspeace Head of Mediation Thematic Block 4: MPB (lead) [email protected]
LUEHE Ulrike swisspeace PhD Candidate
Thematic Block 3: DwP (lead) Training Course 2: PVC (lead)
MCLOUGHLIN Claire International Develop-ment Department, Uni-versity of Birmingham
Lecturer Thematic Block 1: FC&SB [email protected]
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Last Name First Name Institutional Affiliation Position Module1 Email-Address
MISAK Nick swisspeace Program Officer, Peace-building Analysis & Im-pact
Applied Module [email protected]
MORO Leben Nelson Center of Peace and De-velopment Studies, Uni-versity of Juba
Professor and Head, Di-rectorate of External Re-lations
Introductory Module [email protected]
MESOK Elizabeth swisspeace Senior Researcher Thematic Block 5: GC&PB (lead) [email protected]
NUSSIO Enzo swisspeace Center for Security Stud-ies, ETH Zurich
Associate Expert Senior Researcher
Thematic Block 3: DwP [email protected]
OTT Lisa swisspeace Co-Head of Dealing with the Past
Training Course 2: PVC [email protected]
PARLEVLIET Michelle
Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts CRIC, University of Co-penhagen
Postdoctoral Researcher Training Course 3: HR&CT [email protected]
PICKHARDT Julia swisspeace Associate Program Of-ficer Introductory Module [email protected]
PUTZEL James London School of Eco-nomics and Political Sci-ence
Professor of Development Studies at the Department of International Develop-ment
Thematic Block 1: FC&SB [email protected]
RYFFEL Matthias swisspeace Program Officer, Media-tion
Thematic Block 4: MPB [email protected]
SHURIA Halima CamelBell Limited; Cen-tre for Peace & Conflict Studies Cambodia
Director and Board Mem-ber
Training Course 2: PVC [email protected]
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Last Name First Name Institutional Affiliation Position Module1 Email-Address
SIGRIST Franziska swisspeace Head of Training Entire Course [email protected]
SLAN Sarah swisspeace BNF-Trainee, Peacebuild-ing Analysis & Impact Introductory Module [email protected]
STEIN (tbc) Georg Human Security Division, Directorate of Political Af-fairs, FDFA
Mediation Adviser Thematic Block 4: MPB [email protected]
UMLAS Elizabeth University of Fribourg Lecturer Thematic Block 2: BC&PB
VARELA Sarah-Sophia swisspeace Administrative Officer Entire Course [email protected]
WYSS (tbc) Yann Nestlé Senior Manager, Social & Environmental Impact
Thematic Block 2: BC&PB
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Program Management
Julie AGOSTI, Intern, Training, swisspeace
Julie Agosti holds a BA degree in Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Zurich. She has joined swisspeace in July 2018 as an intern in the Training Team. During her Bachelor's degree, she has studied one semester at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She has a special interest in collective memory and the use of history in politics and societies. swisspeace, CV
Laurent GOETSCHEL, Director, swisspeace and Professor of Political Science, University of Basel
Laurent Goetschel received his PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Rela-tions (IUHEI) at the University of Geneva (1993). He worked as a journalist with the Swiss service of the Associated Press (AP), conducted research with the IUHEI's Pro-gram for Strategic and International Security Studies (1990-1992) and with the Gradu-ate Institute of Public Administration (IDHEAP) at the University of Lausanne (1992-1995), where he was also a lecturer (1994-1995). After having served as a visiting scholar with the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (1995-1996) he joined swisspeace as a research analyst. He has taught Swiss foreign policy at the In-stitute of Political Science at the University of Bern from 1997 to 2003 and directed a Swiss National Sci-ence Foundation's research program on Swiss foreign policy from 1997 to 2000. Since then he has been director of swisspeace and professor of political science at the Europe Institute of the University of Basel. From 2003 to 2004 he served as the political advisor to the Swiss Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheline Calmy-Rey. He is currently also President of the Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with De-veloping Countries (KFPE) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. swisspeace, University of Basel, CV
Franziska SIGRIST, Head of Training, swisspeace
Franziska Sigrist holds a MA in Political Science and International Law from the Uni-versity of Bern, Switzerland and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, France. She joined swisspeace in February 2012 to design swisspeace’s first Postgraduate Course in Civilian Peacebuilding (CAS). swisspeace’s training area has grown since and now includes a team of four people accompanying a wide range of trainings and postgraduate courses. From 2010 to 2012, Franziska Sigrist was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Federalism at the University of Fribourg. Previously she worked for the UNHCR Representation to the European Institutions in Strasbourg (2010), the Swiss Embassy in Damascus (2009), and UNICEF in Addis Ababa where she also conducted field research on the Ethiopian water policy for her Master thesis within the framework of the NCCR North South (2006). During her studies she worked for the World Trade Institute in Bern (2005), the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes EADI in Bonn (2004) and engaged as peace observer in Chiapas, Mexico (2005). Franziska Sigrist is particularly interested in the Middle East and has lived and travelled in the region in 2008/2009. swisspeace Training, CV
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Sarah-Sophia VARELA, Administrative Officer, swisspeace
Sarah-Sophia Varela joined swisspeace in July 2017. She holds a commercial voca-tional diploma (2017) and a professional maturity certificate (2017). Sarah-Sophia works in the function of Administrative Officer in the Training Team, the Research Co-ordination Team as well the Central Services. In this function, Sarah-Sophia provides administrative support to the three teams. swisspeace, CV
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1. Introductory Module
Anna BERNHARD, Program Officer, Peacebuilding Analysis & Impact, swisspeace
Anna Bernhard joined swisspeace’s Analysis and Impact Program in 2013 where she focuses on conflict sensitivity, conflict analysis methodology and practice, and on im-pact evaluation. Before joining swisspeace, she was a researcher at the Berghof Foun-dation, Berlin, in an EU-funded project entitled: The role of Governance in the Resolu-tion of Socio-economic and Political Conflict in India and Europe. In 2009 Anna was an associate at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in New Delhi (India), where she worked on local governance and decentralization, as part of the management team of the Local Governance Initiative South Asia. Prior to her time with SDC, she worked for Helvetas on conflict sensitivity, civilian peacebuilding and aid effectiveness, and in-terned at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, in the areas of gender and combating human trafficking. Anna holds a MA in Cultural Anthropology/Gender Studies (University of Basel), a MAS in De-velopment Cooperation (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of the University of Zurich) and is currently completing a MAS in Evaluation (University of Bern). swisspeace Analysis & Impact, CV
Luisa FRANCO, Specialist in Ethnic Archives and Oral Memory Projects
Luisa has an academic background in preservation and promotion of cultural herit-age. She holds an MSc in Digital Communications for Cultural Heritage from the Lu-gano University in Switzerland and a specialization in Human Rights and Archives from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Luisa worked for many years in the area of ICT4D focusing on information management, both in Colombia and as a fel-low at the International Institute for Software Technology at United Nations Univer-sity in China. In 2014, she joined the Directorate of the Human Rights Archive at the National Centre for Historical Memory in Colombia. There, together with community leaders and social and victims’ organizations representing ethnic groups in Colombia, she carried out a series of projects to recover documentation and testimonies documenting human rights violations. She has joined swisspeace in September 2018 as an intern of the Dealing with the Past program. swisspeace Dealing with the Past, CV
Laurent GOETSCHEL, Director, swisspeace and Professor of Political Science, University of Basel
Laurent Goetschel is director of swisspeace and professor of political science at the University of Basel. He studied international relations and political science at the Gradu-ate Institute of International Studies and at the University of Geneva where he obtained his PhD in 1993. He conducted research and lectured at the Universities of Lausanne and Bern. He was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies (Harvard Uni-versity, Cambridge MA), at the Centre for international Conflict Resolution (Columbia University, New York), and a senior fellow at the European Institute of Peace in Brus-sels. He directed a Swiss National Science Foundation’s research program on Swiss foreign policy from 1997 to 2000 and a research module on governance and conflict of the North-South National Centre of Competence in Research from 2001 to 2013. Outside of academia, he worked as a journalist with the Associated Press from 1989 to 1991 and served as the political advisor of Swiss Minis-ter for Foreign Affairs Micheline Calmy-Rey from 2003 to 2004. He is currently president of the Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. swisspeace, University of Basel, CV
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Leben Nelson MORO, Professor at the Center of Peace and Development Studies, and Head of the Di-rectorate of External Relations, University of Juba and Visiting Researcher, swisspeace
Leben Nelson Moro is head of the Directorate of External Relations at the University of Juba, and teaches at the University’s Centre of Peace and Development Studies. His research focuses on oil-induced displacement in South Sudan and conflicts in the Sudan-South Sudan border area. His findings have appeared in the Journal of Refugee Studies, St Anthony’s In-ternational Review, Forced Migration Review, New Internationalist and Pambazuka News; he is the author of ‘Local relations of oil development in Southern Sudan’ in Luke A. Patey and Daniel Large (eds) Sudan Looks East: China, India and the Politics of Asian Alternatives (2011). University of Juba, CV
Julia PICKHARDT, Associate Program Officer, Mediation, swisspeace
Julia Pickhardt joined swisspeace in August 2017 and works as an Associate Pro-gram Officer in the Mediation program. She holds a Master degree in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Ge-neva and a Bachelor degree in Arabic/Islamic Sciences and Political Sciences from the Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Before joining swisspeace, she in-terned with the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the German Institute for Interna-tional and Security Affairs (SWP) and Geneva Call. Her research interests include mediation, armed conflicts, armed non-state actors and international relations within the Middle East and North Africa region with a particular focus on Iran and Syria. swisspeace Mediation, CV
Franziska SIGRIST, Head of Training, swisspeace
Franziska Sigrist holds a MA in Political Science and International Law from the Uni-versity of Bern, Switzerland and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, France. She joined swisspeace in February 2012 to design swisspeace’s first Postgraduate Course in Civilian Peacebuilding (CAS). swisspeace’s training area has grown since and now includes a team of four people accompanying a wide range of trainings and postgraduate courses. From 2010 to 2012, Franziska Sigrist was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Federalism at the University of Fribourg. Previously she worked for the UNHCR Representation to the European Institutions in Strasbourg (2010), the Swiss Embassy in Damascus (2009), and UNICEF in Addis Ababa where she also conducted field research on the Ethiopian water policy for her Master thesis within the framework of the NCCR North South (2006). During her studies, she worked for the World Trade Institute in Bern (2005), the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes EADI in Bonn (2004) and engaged as peace observer in Chiapas, Mexico (2005). She is particularly interested in the Middle East and has lived and travelled in the region in 2008/2009. swisspeace Training, CV
Sarah SLAN, Trainee, Peacebuilding Analysis & Impact, swisspeace
Sarah Slan holds a MA in Political Science and Social Anthropology from the Univer-sity of Zurich. She spent 6-months conducting field research in Palestine and Israel for her Master Thesis on the impact of the Israeli political system on mixed Jewish-Arab couples. After her studies, she interned at the UN Department of Peacekeeping Opera-tions in New York, conducting conflict and risk analysis for Peacekeeping Missions. She then spent a year in Lebanon, first interning at the UN Economic and Social Com-
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mission for Western Asia in Beirut, focusing on social protection mechanisms and social policy impact, and then working on WASH projects across the country at a local consultancy firm. Before joining swis-speace, she also worked as a crises support coordinator at AFS Intercultural Programs, supporting ex-change students in over 50 countries, when difficult situations arose while abroad. At swisspeace she is part of the Peacebuilding Impact and Analysis Team, focusing on conflict sensitivity and university exchanges with the Middle East. swisspeace Analysis & Impact, CV
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2. Thematic Module
2.1. Thematic Block 1: Fragility, Conflict & Statebuilding
Dominik BALTHASAR, Senior Researcher, Statehood, swisspeace
Dominik Balthasar joined swisspeace as a senior researcher with the Statehood and Conflict program in May 2015. Previously, Dominik worked with the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (Addis Ababa), the EU Institute for Security Studies (Paris), the US Institute of Peace (Washington, DC), and Chatham House (London). His work has largely focused on issues pertaining to peace, conflict, and development, with a partic-ular interest in their interrelation and connection to state fragility and social cohesion. As a researcher he held fellowships with the Crisis States Research Centre (London), the Global Public Policy Institute (Berlin), the Centre d'études et de recherches interna-tionals (Paris), the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (Geneva), the Academy for Peace and Development (Hargeysa), and the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies (Mogadishu). Dominik taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the School of Oriental and African Studies, and has consulted with the World Bank, the United Nations, and other international development organi-zations in Somalia, DR Congo, Nepal, and Timor-Leste. Dominik earned an MSc and PhD in international development from the LSE. swisspeace Statehood, CV
Prof. James PUTZEL, Professor of Development Studies at the Department of International Develop-ment, London School of Economics and Political Science
James Putzel is Professor of Development Studies and, since October 2000, Director of the Crisis States Research Centre. He heads the Centre's research program on Cri-sis States, which is funded by the Department for International Development of the UK government. From 1996 to 1999, Professor Putzel was a member of the British Acade-my's Southeast Asia Committee, a Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Studies from September 1999 until January 2001 and remains a member of the edito-rial board. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Latin American Studies of the University of London between 1999 and 2002. Professor Putzel was Di-rector of D (previously the Development Studies Institute) from January 1999 until August 2001. Before that, he directed the Institute's PhD program. London School of Economics and Political Science, CV
Claire MCLOUGHLIN, Lecturer, International Development Department, University of Birmingham
Claire joined IDD in 2004 and has over a decade’s experience of conducting pol-icy-oriented research in development. She has published widely on the politics of service delivery in divided societies and conflict-affected states. She has taken a lead role in major reviews of non-state service provision in developing countries and advised bilateral and multilateral aid agencies on the links between service delivery, state legitimacy and stability. She was a senior researcher with the knowledge on demand helpdesk - the GSDRC (now K4D) - between 2004-2017, and has been a senior researcher with the Developmental Leadership Program (DLP) since 2014. Claire sits on the editorial board of the journal Governance and is a member of the strategic advisory committee for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. International Development Department, University of Birmingham, CV
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2.2. Thematic Block 2: Business, Conflict & Peacebuilding
Rémy FRIEDMANN, Senior Advisor, Desk Human Security and Business, Human Security Division, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Rémy Friedmann is deputy head of the human rights policy office and Senior Advisor on business and human rights at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs since 2011. He is also the chair of the Board of the association of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers (ICoCA). Business and Human Rights, Human Security Division, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, CV
Sibel GÜRLER, Head of Statehood and Business & Peace, swisspeace (lead)
Sibel Gürler is Head of the Statehood program and leads swisspeace activities related toBusiness & Peace. Previously, she worked for the Analysis and Impact Program where she was responsible for the thematic area of fragility and peacebuilding. Her work has included consultancy mandates for government institutions as well as na-tional and international aid organizations. Between 2002 and 2011, Sibel worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in conflict areas, mainly in Africa and the Middle East, supervising humanitarian relief programs and managing interdis-ciplinary teams in often very complex and challenging environments. She was also member of the Ebola crisis management team at the Swiss Humanitarian Aid of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (2014/2015). Sibel holds an MSc in Development Policy, Process and Practice from the University of Reading (UK) and did her PhD in Politics/International Relations on post-conflict reconstruc-tion within the fields of development and security at the University of Bristol (UK). With a specific focus on Liberia she looked at the UN-led reforms of the justice and security sectors aimed at long-term stability and analyzed the effects of reform implementation on the local context. swisspeace Statehood and Business & Peace, CV
Elizabeth UMLAS, Lecturer, University of Fribourg
Dr. Elizabeth Umlas is an independent researcher and consultant with 15 years of experience in the field of business and human rights. She is a lecturer at the Uni-versity of Fribourg and a faculty member of Oxford University’s Master program in international human rights law. She currently serves as senior advisor to two global union federations in Switzerland. Her research interests include workers’ fundamen-tal rights, the emerging phenomenon of “benefit corporations” and the implications of these new businesses for human rights accountability. Her recent publications have included several research papers for UN organizations and a book chapter on multinational corpora-tions’ use of private security (Cambridge University Press). Previously Dr. Umlas served as senior re-search analyst for human rights at KLD Research & Analytics, manager of policy research at Oxfam America and program officer and consultant at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. She is a co-founder of Sustainable Finance Geneva and a board member of Media Matters for Women. She has a PhD in political science from Yale University. University of Fribourg, CV
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Yann WYSS, Senior Manager, Social & Environmental Impact Nestlé (tbc)
More than 12 years of professional experience in project and program manage-ment for governments, multilateral organizations and the private sector, including 10 years advising companies on social and human rights issues at policy and op-erational levels. Ability to articulate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in terms of business risks and opportunities, with a specific focus on chal-lenging environments. Aptitude to engage and interact with a variety of internal and external stakeholders in a meaningful and constructive way. Postgraduate ed-ucation in International Human Rights Law, Economics & Social Sciences and Po-litical Science. Nestlé, CV
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2.3. Thematic Block 3: Dealing with the Past
Elisabeth BAUMGARTNER, Co-Head of Dealing with the Past, swisspeace
Elisabeth Baumgartner is a lawyer specialized in international criminal law and transi-tional justice. Since 2011, she is the co-head of the Dealing with the Past program at swisspeace. Before joining swisspeace, she worked as a delegate and head of sub-delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Africa and South America, and as a trial attorney for the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Elisabeth has worked extensively on transitional justice issues in a number of contexts both with civil society actors and state representatives, in par-ticular, on enforced disappearance/missing persons, justice and accountability, truth seeking, reintegration of child soldiers, as well as the development of transitional justice strategies. She has worked in a number of conflict and post-conflict contexts, such as Colombia, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Northern Ireland, and Tunisia with national and international actors, such as the Truth and Dignity Commission in Tunisia, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, civil society actors in the Caucasus and with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Elisabeth is also in charge of a project funded by the Swiss FDFA on Archives and Dealing with the Past. She is regularly organizing workshops and trainings on transitional justice and dealing with the past in Europe, Africa and Asia, both for civil society and state actors. Elisabeth has worked on the devel-opment of policy recommendations related to the right to know together with the ICRC, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence. Elisabeth Baumgartner holds an LL.M. in In-ternational Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, teaches international criminal law at the University of Lucerne and publishes regularly on transitional justice issues. swisspeace Dealing with the Past, CV
Frank HALDEMANN, Co-Director of the Master in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (tbc)
Prof. Frank Haldemann is the Co-Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Tran-sitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law. Within this programme, he teaches the core course on the law and ethics of transitional justice. His expertise and research focus on transitional justice, human rights and legal philosophy. From June 2011 to july 2017, he was Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty, University of Ge-neva. In 2011 he was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship, enabling him to direct a five-year research project, Historical Injustices, Reparations and International Law. Together with Thomas Unger, he is currently preparing a com-prehensive, multi-authored commentary on the UN Set of Principles to Combat Impunity (to be published by Oxford University Press in 2017). Since 2010 he has been teaching Transitional Justice in the Geneva Academy’s LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. In 2014 and 2015 he directed the Antonio Cassese Summer School in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Conflict, co-organized and hosted by the Geneva Academy. Prior to joining the University of Geneva and the Geneva Academy, Pro-fessor Haldemann was a post-doctoral fellow at the New York University School of Law, the University of Leiden and the University of Pretoria. He also worked as a legal researcher with the Independent Com-mission of Experts Switzerland – Second World War (the ‘Bergier Commission’) and has been a visiting professor at the University of Leiden, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Libera Università Maria Ss. As-sunta and Université Catholique de Louvain. Professor Haldemann holds a degree in Law from the Uni-versity of Fribourg, an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a doctorate in Law from the University of Zurich. Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, 'Bergier Commission', CV
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Ulrike LUEHE, PhD Candidate, Dealing with the Past, swisspeace (lead)
Ulrike Lühe is a PhD fellow with the Dealing with the Past program at swisspeace. Her doctoral research, focusing on the case of Mozambique, is part of the project “Knowledge for peace. Understanding research, practice and policy synergies”. Before joining swisspeace in July 2016 Ulrike did an internship with the UN Women country office Ethiopia, worked as a consultant for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in South Africa on good governance issues and with Microjus-tice4All in Kenya and Rwanda to support local legal organizations. She holds BAs in African Studies and Social Sciences with a focus on Political Science from the Univer-sity of Leipzig, Germany, and an MPhil in Justice and Transformation from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. swisspeace Dealing with the Past, CV
Enzo NUSSIO, Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies (ETH Zurich)
Enzo Nussio is an associated researcher of the swisspeace Dealing with the Past Pro-gram and a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies (ETH Zurich). He holds a doctorate in International Affairs and Governance from the University of St.Gallen and a Master of Arts in History from the University of Basel. Prior to his work at the CSS, he spent several years in Colombia, where he worked as a post-doc for the Universidad de los Andes and as a lecturer for the Universidad Nacional in Bo-gotá. He conducted further post-doctoral studies in the Institute of Latin American Studies at Stockholm University and the University of St. Gallen, and visited the Uni-versity of Michigan and Uppsala University on several occasions. Also, he is affiliated with various re-search organizations, including the Folke Bernadotte Academy’s Peacekeeping Group, Innovations for Poverty Action and swisspeace. Enzo Nussio specializes in post-conflict issues and violence reduction in urban settings, mostly in Latin America. For his research, he uses multiple methods like field experi-ments, case studies and survey analysis. His research projects have been funded amongst others by the World Bank, the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Avina Foundation Switzerland. In his occa-sional consultancy work, he has advised the United Nations Development Program, the Colombian Attor-ney General’s Office and the Toledo Center for Peace. Center for Security Studies (ETH Zurich), swisspeace Dealing with the Past, CV
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2.4. Thematic Block 4: Peace Mediation
Julian HOTTINGER, Senior Mediation Expert, Human Security Division, Directorate of Political Affairs, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (tbc)
Julian Thomas Hottinger is a Senior Mediator attached to Human Security Division (HSD) of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). He graduated from the University of Lausanne, he obtained his PhD degree in Political Science and specialised as an International Conflict Mediator at the Canadian International Institute for Applied Negotiations (CIIAN) in Ottawa, and at the Lester Pearson Peace Keeping Centre in Canada. He has worked as an expert and consultant on various projects covering conflicts in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Colombia, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Rwanda, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Ukraine. From July 1998 until September 2000, he was the Vice-President of the Second Committee on "Democracy and Good Governance" within the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi. From December 2000 until October 2002, he directed a "Constitutional Think Tank Workshop for the Transitional National Government of the Republic of Somalia and the Federative Government of Puntland [North Eastern Somalia]". From October 2002 until April 2004, he was one of the Resource Persons for the 1st Committee on “The Federal Charter”, within the Somali National Reconciliation Conference in Eldoret & Mbagathi, in Kenya. In January 2002, Hottinger took part, as an expert, in the negotiating of “The Nuba Mountains Ceasefire Agreement”. As from January 2003 until January 2005, he is a member of the “Resource Team” working on the Machakos Peace Protocol/Naivasha Peace Negotiations – known today as “The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). From January until July 2005, he worked with the Gerakan Aceh Medeka [GAM], providing input to help prepare their positions on “self-government/self-governance”and other issues within the negotiations taking place with the Government of Indonesia. Up to mid-February 2006, he was attached to the African Union (AU) Facilitation Team in Abuja, working on “The Inter-Sudanese Negotiations on the Darfur”. From July 2006 until April 2008, he was one of the mediators within the Facilitation Team, in Juba [Southern Sudan]. Since January 2012, he worked on various Somali issues, such as the drafting of the Somali Constitution, while helping with the implementation of the Sudanese North/South CPA and the preparation of the Referendum [January 2011]. During the latter months of 2012, he was also working on various pre-negotiation preparatory meetings in Indonesia and within the UN on Western Sahara. Most of his work these last first few years of 2012/2016 has had to do with establishing processes and designing models for future negotiations, while helping parties prepare for future talks, mainly in Mali, Colombia, Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Between November and December 2013, he worked on various issues linked to trying to establish Ceasefire in Syria within UN Office of JSR Lakhdar Brahimi. From February until July 2016, Hottinger has been helping on the Cessation of Hostilities established in Syria at the end of February 2016, while continuing to work on ceasefire issues within the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria. Today, Hottinger is mainly involved in advising various processes (Colombia, Mozambique and Myanmar) in the military/security area. Human Security Division, FDFA
David LANZ, Head of Mediation, swisspeace (lead)
David Lanz is the head of the swisspeace Mediation Program and lectures at the University of Basel. He focuses on mediation process design, power-sharing and sanctions & mediation. Before his current role, he was seconded by the Swiss Expert Pool of Civilian Peacebuilding to the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna to help build the OSCE’s mediation support capacity and to support the OSCE’s response to the crisis in and around Ukraine in 2014. Previously, he worked as a researcher at swisspeace and with the UN Mission in Sudan. He is a trained mediator and has experience as an election observer with the Carter Center in South Sudan.
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David Lanz holds a doctorate in political science at the University of Basel, examining the role of norms in international interventions in armed conflicts with a focus on the Darfur conflict. He has a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University as well as a licence from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. He has published on different aspects of collective security, including in the Oxford Handbook of UN Peacekeeping Operations, International Negotiation, Security & Human Rights, Global R2P, African Affairs, and the Journal of Modern African Studies. swisspeace Mediation, CV
Matthias RYFFEL, Program Officer, Mediation Program, swisspeace
Matthias Ryffel joined swisspeace as Program Officer in the Mediation Program in 2018. His work currently focuses on mediation support and dialogue support in the Middle East. Before joining swisspeace, Matthias worked for the Swiss Federal Depart-ment of Foreign Affairs at the Mediation Desk of the Human Security Division (2015-2018) and as a reporter for various Swiss newspapers (2011-2015). Matthias Ryffel holds a BA in Science of Media and Communication from the University of Fribourg (2010). swisspeace Mediation, CV
Georg STEIN, Mediation Adviser, Human Security Division, Directorate of Political Affairs, Federal De-partment of Foreign Affairs (tbc)
Georg Stein studied international relations in Geneva. After his studies, he worked at the ‘Association for the Prevention of Torture’ (APT), a Geneva based human rights organization. In 2002, he joined the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affair’s (FDFA) Human Security Division (HSD), working on humanitarian policy issues. For five years, he was posted as Human Security Adviser at the Embassy of Switzerland in Jakarta, concentrating on projects in Indonesia and in Thailand. Since 2013, he is Mediation Adviser at the HSD in Bern. Human Security Division, FDFA
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2.5. Thematic Block 5: Gender, Conflict & Peacebuilding
Elizabeth MESOK, Senior Researcher, swisspeace (lead)
Elizabeth Mesok completed her Ph.D. in American Studies in 2013 and her M.A. in Pol-itics in 2007, both from New York University. Her doctoral research focused on the use of all-female counterinsurgency teams by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, trac-ing the military’s instrumentalization of gender as a tool for warfare. From 2013-2015 she was a postdoctoral fellow in Global American Studies at Harvard University, during which time she taught a class she developed entitled “Women and War,” as well as served as a Seminar Associate in the Mahindra Humanities Center’s Seminar on Vio-lence and Non-Violence. Her current research focuses on women in peacebuilding pro-cesses, particularly in programs to prevent and counter violent extremism. She has also written extensively on sexual violence within militaries, most recently on male-male sexual violence in the U.S. military. Prior to relocating to Basel in 2016, she held a Visiting Assistant Professorship in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, where she taught courses in gender and sexuality studies, social and political theory, and the global history of U.S. militarism. Since having arrived in Switzerland, Mesok has taught Gender and Peacebuilding as a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Basel. swisspeace Policy & Platform, CV
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3. Training Module
3.1. Theories of Change in Fragile Contexts
Stefan BÄCHTOLD, Associated Expert, Analysis & Impact Program, swisspeace
Stefan Bächtold is the in-country focal point in Myanmar. He has specialized in devel-oping integrated Theories of Change, alternative evaluation approaches and collabo-rative learning processes for peacebuilding projects. He holds a PhD des. in political science from the University of Basel and a MA in social science from the Universities of Fribourg and Berne. His doctoral research analyzed discourses on accountability, the focus on results and the power relations that are structuring peacebuilding and de-velopment cooperation in Myanmar. Previously, he was a researcher and program of-ficer in the swisspeace Peacebuilding Analysis and Impact program based in Bern. Before joining swisspeace, Stefan worked as a reporting and communications officer for Terre des Hommes in West Darfur (Sudan). He was also a research project assistant at the Institute for Research on Management of Associations, Foundations and Cooperatives at the University of Fribourg. His country focus is Myanmar, with additional working experience in Sudan (Darfur), Palestine (Gaza/West Bank) and Bangladesh. swisspeace Analysis & Impact, CV
Roland DITTLI, Head of Analysis & Impact Program, swisspeace
Roland Dittli holds a MA in Modern History from the University of Bern. After working and studying in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), he joined swisspeace in 2001 as a research analyst for the Lusophone Africa Project (2001-2002) and in 2003 be-came a program officer with the Center for Peacebuilding (KOFF). From 2004-2005, he was employed within the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs' Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding as head of the Swiss delegation and staff division at the Temporary In-ternational Presence in the City of Hebron (oPt). As a freelance consultant, he carried out several mandates for German development and peacebuilding organizations in oPt and Yemen (2005-2006). Before re-joining swisspeace in June 2008, he worked in Li-longwe/Malawi in an EU governance project as a technical advisor for monitoring and evaluation. At KOFF, Roland focuses on issues of peacebuilding evaluation, results-based management as well as im-pact assessment and conflict sensitivity. Since August 2010, he heads the swisspeace Peacebuilding Analysis and Impact Pro-gram. swisspeace Analysis & Impact, CV
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3.2. Preventing Violent Conflicts
Ulrike LUEHE, PhD Candidate, Dealing with the Past, swisspeace (lead)
Ulrike Lühe is a PhD fellow with the Dealing with the Past program at swisspeace. Her doctoral research, focusing on the case of Mozambique, is part of the project “Knowledge for peace. Understanding research, practice and policy synergies”. Before joining swisspeace in July 2016 Ulrike did an internship with the UN Women country office Ethiopia, worked as a consultant for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in South Africa on good governance issues and with Microjus-tice4All in Kenya and Rwanda to support local legal organizations. She holds BAs in African Studies and Social Sciences with a focus on Political Science from the Univer-sity of Leipzig, Germany, and an MPhil in Justice and Transformation from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. swisspeace Dealing with the Past, CV
Lisa OTT, Co-Head of Dealing with the Past, swisspeace
Lisa Ott is the co-head of the Dealing with the Past program at swisspeace. She holds a MA and a PhD in Law from the University of Lucerne, as well as a Certificat de Droit Transnational from the University of Geneva. She worked as a research and teaching assistant with the Chair for Constitutional and Public International Law at the Univer-sity of Lucerne and completed her PhD thesis on enforced disappearance in interna-tional criminal, humanitarian and human rights law. In 2010, she joined the Field Moni-toring and Reporting Unit of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal. In 2011-2014, she worked as a human rights officer with OHCHR in Colombia, mainly on issues related to human rights defenders at risk, public policies on human rights, national human rights institutions and land restitution. She has also worked with NGOs in El Salvador on indigenous rights and the rights of migrants. swisspeace Dealing with the Past, CV
Halima SHURIA, Director and Board Member, CamelBell Limited and Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies
Halima has worked as a Development, Humanitarian, Peace-building and Social Trauma Healing Practitioner for over 20 years. She has worked with the Kenyan Gov-ernment, UNICEF, MSF-Spain Somalia Program, and Oxfam GB. She was an advisor in the Regional office on their pastoralist program in Horn East and Central Africa (HECA) and also an advisor for the Development Alternative Incorporated (DAI) in their Somali Stabilization program USAID Funded Somali Program. She is now a consultant and Director with CamelBell Limited - a consultancy firm and carried out various consultancies in the Horn, East, Central, West and South African Regions. She has also trained Internationally Women Military/ Air Force, Police and other armed forces being prepared for peace keeping in New Delhi, India and Beijing, China funded by the UN Women. Halima is a Trainer of Trainers (TOT) with Local Capacities for Peace (Do No Harm – DNH) a conflict sensitive programing tool also known as “working IN conflict”. She is also a trainer in Responding to Peace Practice (RPP) a follow up from the gap in DNH that addresses peace initiatives also know as “working ON conflict”. Halima is also a Board Member of Wajir Peace University Trust (WAPUT) in Kenya and Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) in Cambodia. She is also a member of the Concerned Citizens for Peace in Kenya that contributed to the peace initiative in the 2007 - 2008 post-election violence. Halima has a Masters in Peace Studies from Pannasastra University, in Cambodia. A BSc in Human Ecol-ogy (majoring in Housing & Facility Management) and a Certificate in Business Administration from Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. She is fluent in English, Kiswahili and Somali. Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, CV
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3.3. Human Rights & Conflict Transformation
Michelle PARLEVLIET, Independent Consultant, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Resolu-tion of International Conflicts CRIC, University of Copenhagen
Michelle Parlevliet is an independent consultant with some fifteen years of experience of working on the nexus of human rights and peace work in various capacities and contexts. While currently affiliated with the University of Amsterdam, she previously served as senior conflict transformation adviser for Danida’s Human Rights and Good Governance Program in Nepal, in which capacity she also advised the Embassy of Denmark on its support to the peace process. Prior to that, she worked with the Centre for Conflict Resolution in South Africa (as program manager), the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (as researcher) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (as project coordinator). She has consulted for the World Bank (Indonesia), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN System Staff College, the International Council for Human Rights Policy, the Northern Ireland Parades Commission and numerous other organi-zations and networks. Consultancies have included design and delivery of training courses and material, preparation of research papers, program review, and facilitation of strategic reflection. She has published widely on transitional justice, conflict prevention, human rights and peacebuilding. In 2008/09, she served as an independent expert to the UN/ Spain MDG Trust Fund in its Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding thematic window. Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts CRIC, University of Copenhagen, CV
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4. Applied Module
Tania HÖRLER, Senior Program Officer, Analysis & Impact, swisspeace
Tania Hörler Perrinet joined the swisspeace Analysis and Impact Program in 2016 where she focuses on how to work in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. From 2013-2016, she was deployed by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs' Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding as a Human Security Advisor to the Embassy of Switzerland in Nepal. She supported political dialogue facilitation among key stakeholders of the fed-eral restructuring and the transitional justice processes. In 2010, Tania joined the Fo-rum Civil Peace Service (forumZFD) and headed one of the organization’s regional of-fices in Mindanao/Philippines. Her work was focused on community level resource conflicts and multi-stakeholder policy dialogues at provincial level. In 2009, Tania worked for Peace Bri-gades International in Papua/Indonesia, where she provided protective accompaniment to human rights defenders and conducted trainings on non-violent conflict resolution for local NGOs. From 2004-2008, she was the Office Manager of the Stiftung Jugendaustausch Schweiz-GUS and in charge of the student exchange programs with Russia, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan. Tania holds a MA in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and is a trained mediator as well as peace and conflict consultant. swisspeace Analysis & Impact, CV
Nick MISZAK, Program Officer, Analysis & Impact, swisspeace
Nick Miszak is a Program Officer with the swisspeace Peacebuilding Analysis and Im-pact Program. In 2017, he completed his doctoral thesis in Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His the-sis focuses on the relation between land governance and peacebuilding in Afghani-stan. Since 2007, Nick has acquired extensive field research and professional exper-tise in Afghanistan and Pakistan working as a scholar-practitioner at the nexus of peacebuilding, development, and security. He has produced numerous research pro-jects commissioned by with non-governmental organisations, academia, governments, and international organizations, including peace and conflict impact assessments and policy briefs. His main research interests include three core areas : land governance, conflict dynamics and local conflict resolution mechanisms ; conflict sensitivity and the political economy of international aid and develop-ment; local security provision, violent extremism and radicalisation. swisspeace Analysis & Impact, CV
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5. Concluding Module
Laurent GOETSCHEL, Director, swisspeace and Professor of Political Science, University of Basel
Laurent Goetschel received his PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Rela-tions (IUHEI) at the University of Geneva (1993). He worked as a journalist with the Swiss service of the Associated Press (AP), conducted research with the IUHEI's Pro-gram for Strategic and International Security Studies (1990-1992) and with the Gradu-ate Institute of Public Administration (IDHEAP) at the University of Lausanne (1992-1995), where he was also a lecturer (1994-1995). After having served as a visiting scholar with the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (1995-1996) he joined swisspeace as a research analyst. He has taught Swiss foreign policy at the In-stitute of Political Science at the University of Berne from 1997 to 2003 and directed a Swiss National Science Foundation's research program on Swiss foreign policy from 1997 to 2000. Since then he has been director of swisspeace and professor of political science at the Europe Institute of the University of Basel. From 2003 to 2004 he served as the political advisor to the Swiss Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheline Calmy-Rey. He is currently also President of the Swiss Commission for Research Part-nerships with Developing Countries (KFPE) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. swisspeace, University of Basel, CV
Franziska SIGRIST, Head of Training, swisspeace
Franziska Sigrist holds a MA in Political Science and International Law from the Uni-versity of Bern, Switzerland and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, France. She joined swisspeace in February 2012 to design swisspeace’s first Postgraduate Course in Civilian Peacebuilding (CAS). swisspeace’s training area has grown since and now includes a team of four people accompanying a wide range of trainings and postgraduate courses. From 2010 to 2012, Franziska Sigrist was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Federalism at the University of Fribourg. Previously she worked for the UNHCR Representation to the European Institutions in Strasbourg (2010), the Swiss Embassy in Damascus (2009), and UNICEF in Addis Ababa where she also conducted field research on the Ethiopian water policy for her Master thesis within the framework of the NCCR North South (2006). During her studies, she worked for the World Trade Institute in Bern (2005), the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes EADI in Bonn (2004) and engaged as peace observer in Chiapas, Mexico (2005). She is particularly interested in the Middle East and has lived and travelled in the region in 2008/2009. swisspeace Training, CV
