is a specialist in feminist education and politics. Between 1986 and 1988 she worked at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. From 1989–2003 she was at swisspeace, the Swiss Peace Foundation in Bern, where her work focused on women in peace processes. She has completed a course in «Constructive Conflict Resolution and Mediation» (Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, Berlin) and a postgraduate diploma in «Basics of Feminism» (Rosa-Mayreder-College, Vienna).
Maren Haartje is PWAG coordinator for the program «Visibility & Connectivity» and the program strand «Livelihoods & Ecological Justice» including projects in Sudan, China and Mexico. She is monitoring the PWAG projects «Women's Platform for Conflict Transformation» (Sudan, Horn of Africa) and «Women's Forum for Peace» (Central Asia). Maren Haartje is responsible for the Fundraising.
is a social anthropologist and sociologist with a focus on integration, migration, development cooperation, gender, human rights, indigenous peoples, conflict transformation and peace building. Thanks to several long stays in Paraguay, Mexico, Cuba and Guatemala for research and peacebuilding, she has proven expertise on Latin America. In 2007 she completed a training course in conflict transformation according to the Transcend-method of Johan Galtung and she visited the certified course for development cooperation at ETH Zurich (NADEL). She has gained a lot of experience and knowledge in conflict transformation and dialogue facilitation. Previously, she has led a pilot project on peacebuilding in Guatemala and was office manager of a human rights organization for indigenous peoples.
has worked for the last fifteen years as international consultant, facilitator, trainer, researcher and lecturer in peacebuilding and conflict and peace studies. She has worked for different international and Swiss governmental agencies and non-governmental organisations like Center for Peace Building (KOFF)/swisspeace, amnesty international, Institute for Multi-track Diplomacy (IMTD) and the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management and conducted field work in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and in the Middle East. With a doctorate in Peace Studies and a MA in «Politics and International Relations», Cordula was senior lecturer at different European and Swiss universities and visiting professor at the University of Graz, Austria. Her main areas of expertise are conflict sensitivity, strategic conflict analysis, impact assessment, gender, conflict and conflict transformation. Cordula has widely published on gender, conflict and peacebuilding and conflict transformation theory. Cordula joined PWAG at January 2011 and has been program consultant and project manager for Sudan.
studied political sciences and scandinavian studies at the University of Potsdam and Humboldt University of Berlin. After finishing her Master degree she worked during a year for a women’s rights NGO in Honduras. Maaret joined PWAG as an intern in March 2011. Since September 2011 she works as project assistant in the project strand «Conflict Transformation» of the PWAG Programme «Redefining Peace - Women Lead the Way». Additionally, she is responsible for updating the website.
studied social anthropology and sociology at the University of Zurich. During her studies she did an internship at the Swiss NGO ROKPA, where they accomplish social projects in the Himalayan region (Nepal and Tibet). For her master thesis she stayed one year in Turkey and made a documentary film about women playing football in Turkey. Since January 2012 she is intern at the International Secretariat in Bern and responsible for general administrative and organizational work.
help to plan and to organize the PWAG exhibitions «1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe» and «No Women – No Peace». In August 2009 they set out on a journey of several months to present the exhibition in different places in Mexico and in Cuba. Afterwards they showed the exhibition in Mongolia, at the UN Head Quarter in NYC and in February 2011 at the World Social Froum in Dakar, Senegal. PWAG is grateful for the extraordinary volunteer work of Lasse and Eva!
