“The MSP’s Peace Mediation Course was very instructive for me with direct benefit to my current work and professional development.”
Itonde Kakoma, Assistant Director, The Carter Center
The Peace Mediation Course 2013 took place in Oberhofen am Thunersee between 2 and 14 June 2013.
It brought together 28 participants (11 women, 17 men) of 15 different nationalities.
Participants of the PMC 2013 can access the course material here (password protected).
The course trainers were:
- Achim Wennmann: Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Ben Hoffman: President of the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation
- Elisabeth Baumgartner: Co-Head, Dealing with the Past Program, swisspeace
- Emma Leslie: Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
- Jeremy Brickhill: Director of the Zimbabwe Peace and Security Programme
- Julian Thomas Hottinger: Senior Expert in Mediation and Constitutionalism, Swiss FDFA
- Nicole Töpperwien: UN Mediation Standby Team, Independent Consultant with ximpulse
Facilitators:
- Matthias Siegfried (swisspeace)
- Simon Mason (Center for Security Studies ETH Zurich)