Areas of expertise:

• The CSS Model
• Research and evaluation
• Facilitation
• Coaching and mentoring
• Exhibition

Berit is professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK, and a teacher and researcher with over 20 years of experience in conflict and peacebuilding related research and analysis. She has carried out fieldwork-based research in the Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo), Latin America (Colombia and Peru), and Southeast Asia (Myanmar).

Berit’s areas of expertise include research and analysis, research design and management, qualitative research methodologies (including creative and arts-based methods and participatory action research), research ethics and safeguarding, design and delivery of university and school courses and workshops, and meeting/ workshop facilitation (she is trained in Technology of Participation-ToP methods).

Berit has carried out facilitation work with Nonviolent Peaceforce and the UCP/A Community of Practice and research with NP Myanmar, among others, and leads the Creating Safer Space network. Other research has involved work with demobilised guerrilla fighters in Colombia.

More information: https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/berit-bliesemann-de-guevara

Contact: beb14@aber.ac.uk

Areas of Expertise:

• The CSS Model
• Research and Evaluation
• Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
• Education and learning
• Policy and implementation advice

Rachel is professor of Peace Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK, and an internationally recognised researcher working on Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping/Protection and the way we recognise the lives and voices of those affected by violence and crisis. She has worked with community partners in Southeast Asia and East Africa to explore how civilians protect one another from violence, increase their capacity and agency to act, the voices of survivors in influencing policy and how a nonviolent feminist analysis generates creative approaches in the midst of complex challenges.

Rachel’s expertise includes research and analysis, creative, arts- and technology-based qualitative methods, research ethics, evaluation, and design and delivery of university and school courses and workshops.

Rachel has provided expertise to the UN and a German Parliament sub-committee and is always interested in new and exciting projects and methods.