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- What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- To better understand human behaviour in volatile circumstances and to bring about social change.
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- Dr. Cordula Reimann is project coordinator and senior researcher at the Centre for Peace-Building/swisspeace in Bern/Switzerland. Before joining swisspeace 5 years ago, she was with the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford/UK, where she did postgraduate research and her doctorate on gender, conflict and peace-building. Her research has been expanded by various publications, field work in South Asia, university lecturer posts, and consultancy for different Swiss and international NGOs, governmental and development agencies on gender, conflict and conflict transformation and. Right now, she is also visiting lecturer at the University if Basel for “conflict and gender”. At swisspeace, she is responsible for gender & peace-building, Sri Lanka, “state-of-the-art” of conflict transformation, and trainings.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise
- Sri Lanka
Israel / Palestine
Kosovo
Pakistan
- What is your current country of residence?
- switzerland
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- centre for peace-building/KOFF at swisspeace
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?
- Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Gender, Civil Society
- Which are your primary skills areas?
- Training, Evaluation, Program Design, Research
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- gender and non-state aremed groups, inclusion oif non-state armed groups in peace processes
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications
- ”Doing good? Herausforderungen für die NGOs in der Friedensförderung“, in Ansgar Klein and Silke Roth (eds.) (2007), NGOs im Spannungsfeld von Krisenprävention und Sicherheitspolitik, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften; together with Norbert Ropers ”Discourses on Peace Practices: Learning to Change by Learning to Change?, in Paul van Tongeren et al (eds.) (2005), People Building Peace II. Successful Stories of Civil Society, Boulder CO: Lynne Rienne Publications; “Unterstützung von Friedensallianzen: Wer unterstützt wen und wie? Vorüberlegungen aus gender-sensitiver Perspektive“, in Jörg Calliess (ed.) (2004), Loccumer Protokolle “Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Überwindung von Gewaltkonflikten“ (27/03); Gender in Problem-solving workshops: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? Swisspeace Working Paper 2004, Bern; “Why are Violent, Intra-state Conflicts that Protracted? Thoughts from a Gender-sensitive Perspective”, in: Peace, Conflict and Development. An Interdisciplinary Journal, Issue 2, December 2002. www.peace studiesjournal.org.uk; “Engendering the Field of Conflict Management. Why Gender Does Not Matter! Thoughts from a Theoretical Perspective”, in Marianne Braig and Sonja Woelte (eds.) (2002): Common Ground or Mutual Exclusion? London/New York: ZED Books; “All You Need Is Love”… and What About Gender? Engendering Burton’s Human Needs Theory”. Working Paper No. 10, Bradford: Centre for Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies/University of Bradford, January 2002; Towards Conflict Transformation: Assessing the State of the Art in Conflict Management - Reflections from a Theoretical Perspective, in: Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation, http://www.berghof-handbook.net/reimann/final.pdf (March 2001); Towards Gender Mainstreaming in Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management - Guiding Points for the German Development Co-operation, Eschborn: GTZ, 2001; “Engendering the Field of Conflict Management. Why Gender Does Not Matter! Thoughts from a Theoretical Perspective” in Peace Studies Papers. Forth Series, Working Paper No. 2 (2001), Bradford: Department of Peace Studies/University of Bradford; The Field Of Conflict Management: Why Does Gender Matter?, Bonn: Information Unit Peace Research Bonn, October1999 (4/99); Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung deutscher NRO und Einrichtungen - Ein Wegweiser 1998/99, Berlin: Berghof Report No. 16 (November 1998).
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Best wishes,
MLZ
Nice to see you on this Network. Its really great experiences you have had.If you know the situation of Nepal. Now Nepal is going make over in Sustainable Peace. In this movement it would helpful for our country from your proficiency. In you get the opportunity to get involve.
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Yadab
Nepal
Emmy irobi
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I am privileged to be able to communicate with you through this network. I see you from Lisa's list of friends. I see from your profile that you have been doing important works towards conflict resolution and peacebuilding. I think I have a lot to learn from you if we could exchange and share our insights and learnings.
I look forward to hearing from you positively.
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