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Preventing Violent Conflicts Training 2018 List of Trainers and Management

Last Name First Name Institution Position Email-Address

1 AFFOLTER GÓMEZ Barbara Swiss Development Cooperation Conflict and Human Rights Advisor barbara.affolter@eda.admin.ch

2 BENTELE Ursina swisspeace Head of Training ad interim ursina.bentele@swisspeace.ch

3 HÖRLER Tania swisspeace Senior Program Officer, Analysis & Impact

tania.hoerler@swisspeace.ch

4 LÜHE Ulrike swisspeace PhD Candidate ulrike.luehe@swisspeace.ch

5 MOHANTY Priya swisspeace Associate Program Officer, Training priya.mohanty@swisspeace.ch

6 OTT Lisa swisspeace Co-head of Dealing with the Past lisa.ott@swisspeace.ch

7 ROETHLISBERGER Susanne swisspeace Intern, Training susanne.roethlisberger@swisspeace.ch

8 SHURIA Halima

CamelBell Limited; Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies Cam-bodia

Director and Board Member halimashuria@gmail.com

9 TANNER Rolf Swiss Re Art Management and Cultural En-gagement

rolf.s.tanner@bluewin.ch

10 VARELA Sarah-Sophia swisspeace Administrative Officer sarah-sophia.varela@swisspeace.ch

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Barbara AFFOLTER GÓMEZ, Conflict and Human Rights Advisor, Swiss Development Cooperation

Barbara Affolter Gómez was a foreign correspondent for Swiss National Broadcasting and worked for the ICRC before she joined the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) 18 years ago. She was deputy head of communication, advisor for Governance & Human Rights and was setting up the Global Program Migration & Development within SDC. Since 2013 she is part of the thematic team Conflict & Human Rights. Among her main tasks is the further development of the Conflict Sensitive Program Management CSPM with the integration of the communication and the psychosocial dimension as well as the development – security nexus with the topics of violence prevention and prevention of violent extremism. SDC, LinkedIn

Ulrike LÜHE, PhD Candidate, Dealing with the Past, swisspeace

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

Dr. 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 University of Lucerne and completed her PhD thesis on enforced disappearance in international criminal, humanitarian and human rights law. In 2010, she joined the Field Monitoring 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

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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 offices 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 ex-change 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

Halima ABDI OMAR 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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Dr. Rolf TANNER, Art Management and Cultural Engagement, Swiss Re

Rolf has more than 25 years of experience in political risk analysis and political risk management. He worked as a political analyst with the former Union Bank of Swit-zerland and was a partner with a political risk consulting boutique. He joined Swiss Re, the world’s second largest reinsurance company, after 9/11 and built up its polit-ical and sustainability risk management function. He served as Global Head of Media Relations & Financial Reporting from 2012 to 2014. Since then, he continues to work part-time for Swiss Re (in the art management and cultural sponsoring area) while teaching at a number of institutions of higher education. He chairs the Business Ad-visory Board of swisspeace and also sits on the Foundation Council of swisspeace. Swiss Re, CV

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2. Management

Ursina BENTELE, Head of Training ad interim, swisspeace

Ursina Bentele holds an MA in History and English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Bern, Switzerland. In her Master thesis she analyzed the debate of gen-der equality in Swiss family law (right to a name) during the 20th Century. From 2009 to 2014 Ursina Bentele worked as an academic researcher at the Diplomatic Docu-ments of Switzerland (dodis.ch), where she was responsible for the historical research on Switzerland’s relations with North and South America, Southeast Asia and general questions of foreign affairs and the policy of neutrality. Ursina Bentele was responsible for the employment and training of student assistants and in planning and organizing conferences and research projects. Previously, she worked as an English teacher and in the Ethiopian Scout Project. Ursina Bentele is a program officer for swisspeace’s training area and supports the coordi-nation, design and implementation of the KOFF training series and swisspeace’s postgraduate courses. swisspeace, CV

Priya MOHANTY, Associate Program Officer, Training, swisspeace

Priya Mohanty joined swisspeace in July 2017 in the Training Team. She will be com-pleting her Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs at the University of St. Gallen in the near future. Her Bachelor’s thesis focuses on the inclusion of socioeconomic as-pects in transitional justice processes. During her studies Priya also spent one semes-ter studying at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. swisspeace, CV

Susanne ROETHLISBERGER, Intern, Training, swisspeace

Susanne Röthlisberger holds a BA in International Relations with a Major in Interna-tional History from the University of Geneva. She has joined swisspeace in January 2018 as an intern in the Training team. During her Bachelor’s degree, she had the opportunity to study for a semester at McGill University, Montreal, CA and is interested in identity questions and the collective memory of human rights abuses. swisspeace, CV

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 team leaders. swisspeace, CV