Veronique Dudouet's Page

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)

Véronique Dudouet is a researcher at the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Manegement in Berlin, Germany. She holds a DEA in International Relations and Security from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Toulouse, France (2000), and an MA (2001) and PhD (2005) in Conflict Resolution from the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK. Her doctoral thesis analysed complementary forms of third-party intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, both in the spirit of conflict resolution (mediation and facilitation) and nonviolent advocacy (solidarity movements). She took part to numerous humanitarian, human rights and anti-war initiatives in France, UK, Germany, Bosnia, West Bank and Lebanon, and is a member of the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement. She has taught on conflict resolution theory and intervention in asymmetric conflict in Bradford and Hamburg universities, and was the editor of a peer-reviewed academic journal, Peace, Conflict and Development (www.peacestudiesjournal.org.uk).

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise

Israel/Palestine, South Africa, Lebanon

What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?

Germany

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

Action researcher, Berghof Centre for Constructive Conflict Management

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.berghof-handbook.net

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.conflicttransformation.org

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?

Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Civil Society

Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?

Evaluation, Program Design, Advocacy

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?

Civil society organisations in war-to-democracy transitions (organisational and functional shifts)
Non-state armed groups in transition from war to politics
South Africa, Guatemala, Israel-Palestine
Transforming asymmetric conflicts
Negotiations in nonviolent struggles
Negotiation capacity-building for conflict actors

If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications

Dudouet, V. (2006) Transitions from War to Peace: Revisiting Analysis and Intervention in Conflict Transformation. Berghof Report 15. http://www.berghof-center.org/uploads/download/br15e.pdf