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Dr. Cordula Reimann

  • Place of residence: Langenthal, Switzerland
  • Clients: GIZ, SDC, Oxfam, Academy for Conflict Transformation, UN Women, forumZFD.
  • Email: cr[at]corechange[dot]ch

Short introduction

Dr. Cordula Reimann has worked for more than twenty-five years as consultant, facilitator, trainer, coach, and lecturer on gender, trauma, conflict analysis, conflict sensitivity and conflict transformation. As practitioner–scholar, Cordula has worked for international and Swiss governmental and non-governmental organisations like Crisis Management Initiative, PeaceWomen Across the Globe, amnesty international, the Institute for Multi-track Diplomacy in Washington, GIZ and the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management and for nearly ten years at swisspeace, where she was head of analysis & impact of peacebuilding. At swisspeace, Cordula was in charge of a backstopping mandate for the Swiss Foreign Ministry on gender and peacebuilding. This work included conducting conflict analyses and gender trainings for the Swiss and international agencies on WPS, and most importantly here, drafting the Swiss national action plans (NAPs) on WPS, and women in peace processes.

Thematic key areas

Masculinity

  • Masculinity

Women, peace and security

  • Participation of women in peace processes
  • Peace-Building
  • Early Warning Systems
  • Conflict-Sensitive Rebuilding
  • Crisis Prevention, Conflict Transformation and Stabilization
  • Mediation
  • Protection From Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts
  • Transitional Justice – Rehabilitation, Reparation and Reconciliation

Gender-based violence

  • Human Trafficking
  • Harmful Practices
  • Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Governance

  • Empowering Women's Rights
  • Civil Society Cooperation

Climate and environment

  • Disaster Risk Management (DRM/DRR)

Multiple Discriminations

  • Racism/Ethnicity

Languages

  • German Native language
  • English C2 Nearly native language skills
  • French B2 Independent language application

Regions

Africa

  • North Africa
  • East-Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • West Africa
  • Central Africa

Asia

  • Pacific
  • South Asia
  • South East Asia
  • Central Asia

Middle East and North Africa

  • Middle East
  • Nordafrika

East and South-East Europe

  • Caucasus
  • East Europe
  • South-East Europe