Christine Schweitzer is researcher at the German Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution (Institut für Friedensarbeit und Gewaltfreie Konfliktaustragung) and doing different pieces of consultancy work, among them for Nonviolent Peaceforce. Between 2001 and May 2008 she was Programme Director of Nonviolent Peaceforce, supervising NP’s projects in Sri Lanka, Philippines and Guatemala. Formerly the Research Director of NP, Christine co-ordinated the Feasibility Study for Large-Scale Nonviolent Intervention.
Christine has spent most of her working as well as volunteering life as an organiser and researcher in the peace and nonviolence movement (Federation of Nonviolent Action groups, Federation for Social Defence, War Resisters’ International). For three years, she was a “Scientific Consultant" in the State Chancellery of North-Rhine Westphalia for the themes of Civil Conflict Resolution and Middle East.
She has more than 28 years of experience in peace and nonviolence movements, including being one of the co-founders of the Balkan Peace Team and being involved in other work in South East Europe. She is also the co-editor of a magazine of the German peace movement (FriedensForum , ‘Peace Forum’), and has published on topics like civilian-based defence, nonviolent struggle, non-violent conflict transformation and disarmament.
Christine has a Master in Social Anthropology from the University of Cologne and is currently finishing a Ph.D thesis on civil society interventions in the former Yugoslavia between 1990 and 2002 which has been submitted in Coventry (Britain).
She resides in Hamburg, Germany.
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