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- What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- I am an anthropologist by training and I got involved in questions of minority rights, coexistence, public participation and the role of civil society in seeking social justice in the early nineties when I was doing fieldwork in eastern Indonesia. This is my field of work and my passion until today.
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- Since the beginning of 2003 Esther is a senior Project Officer the Center for Peacebuilding (KOFF) at swisspeace in Bern, Switzerland.
Prior to joining swisspeace she was managing and developing a program to strengthen civil society organization in Hanoi, Vietnam for German Development Service (DED) and specializing in issues of governance, participation, institution building and gender (1998-2002).
1996 till 1998 she produced a TV feature on religious conflict in Sumba, eastern Indonesia, lectured at the University of Zurich and worked for INFOE-Schweiz (Institute for Oekologie und Aktions-Ethnologie) producing a publication on indigenous people and oil exploitation.
Esther received an MA/Lic Phil I in Social Anthropology, Mass Communication and Film Studies from the University of Zurich in 1996. During completing the MA she conducted anthropological field studies in eastern Indonesia in 1992-1993 and also worked as a consultant in Indonesia and Switzerland.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise
- Vietnam
Indonesia
Central Asia
Kurdistan
- What is your current country of residence?
- Switzerland
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Program Officer, Centre for Peacebuilding - KOFF/swisspeace, Switzerland
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.swisspeace.ch
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, Peacebuilding, Conflict Mainstreaming, Democratization, Development, Civil Society, Organizational Development
- Which are your primary skills areas?
- Training, Evaluation, Program Design, Intervention, Research
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Conflict-sensitivity, the role of non-state actors in peace processes, track II roles in peace processes
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EMU Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) 2010 accepting applications
November 5, 2009 to January 8, 2010 – Eastern Mennonite University
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Canadian School of Peacebuilding 2010 - Accepting Applications
November 10, 2009 to April 1, 2010 – Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Canada
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Peace through Development: Local Institution Building in Rural Afghanistan
November 19, 2009 from 4pm to 6pm – Weatherhead Center at Harvard University
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Working for Peace in the Midst of Conflict: Is it for me?
November 27, 2009 from 6pm to 6pm – London, UK
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