WPM members are German women peace mediation experts from the diplomatic and non-diplomatic community. ​We have at least ten years of professional experience in peace mediation within governmental and non-governmental organisations at the international level. Our expertise is diverse and includes mediation and dialogue facilitation, process design, gender and additional mediation support expertise to track 1-1.5 peace processes.

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Members of the WPM Network Germany

Julia von Dobeneck (Co-founder and Co-coordinator of the WPM Germany Network) is a senior peace mediation expert with a focus on entry point analysis, inclusion and track coordination. Julia has extensive experience as political advisor, scholar and NGO mediator. She accompanied the German Federal Foreign Office on several peace processes as method expert. On behalf of the Robert Bosch Foundation, she currently supports peace initiatives in the Western Balkans. Her regional experience includes the Western Balkans, Latin America and Ukraine. She is an Affiliated Researcher at the Center for Peace Mediation and lectures in different mediation programs. Julia speaks English, French and Spanish.

Barbara Einhäuser has worked on European Common Foreign and Security Policy and development cooperation for the past 15 years, focusing mainly on East Africa. She is currently with the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI), where she works on crisis response in the Horn of Africa, conflict prevention and peace building. Barbara coordinates rapid EU support and technical expertise – i.e. on process design, national dialogue or land and water conflicts – for mediation and dialogue processes on all tracks. She speaks English, French and Dutch and has basic knowledge in Swahili. 

Janna Greve currently works with the EEAS IPS2 Mediation Support Team in Brussels as Policy Officer - Peace Mediation and Dialogue, with a focus on Sahel and South American countries as well as Women, Peace and Security as a cross-cutting topic. Prior to this, her position with the OAS Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia focussed on transitional justice, especially with respect to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace. She has over ten years work experience in the humanitarian and peacebuilding sector in Colombia and Sub-Saharan-Africa, including assignments in the field of mediation and the design and facilitation of dialogue processes. She has thorough expertise in the monitoring of security and human rights dynamics, gender-and-cultural-sensitive conflict analysis as well as capacity building. She speaks English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Since 2021, Janna is PhD researcher on restorative transitional justice with the Leuven Institute for Criminology in Belgium.

Canan Gündüz is a German diplomat and currently posted to Beijing. She speaks English and French.

Dr. Antje Herrberg is a senior peace mediation expert and practitioner with 20 years of experience in conflict resolution in diverse – state and non-state – institutional and geographical settings. She has worked in a number of dialogue processes and peacemaking efforts in the Black Sea Region, has acted as a Chief FacilitationAdvisor to the late President Ahtisaari and Director of Mediation to the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), and served in the UN Standby Team of Mediation as a process design expert. Until recently Antje was the Chief of Staff of a counter-terrorism capacity-building Mission (EUCAP Sahel Niger), coming directly from the DRC where she worked in particular on peace and stabilisation in the East. Since 2014, she teaches international peace mediation to future diplomats at the College of Europe, Bruges and is fluent in English and French.

Dr. Christina Horváth-Stenner (Co-founder and Co-coordinator of the WPM Germany Network) is a senior peace mediation expert and experienced team leader with a specialisation in issues related to the business sector, process design and tactical negotiation skills. She currently serves as Mediation Support Officer at the OSCE in Vienna. Previously, she has worked for the UN, the OSCE, and NGOs on the matters of peace and security as well as refugees. She holds a Master of Mediation in Peace processes from the ETH Zurich and teaches herself occasionally at a diverse range of universities worldwide. Her regional experience includes mediation support to and facilitation of formats of peace processes on track 1-2 peace processes in the Balkans, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia as well as peace efforts in Egypt and South East Asia. She speaks English, Japanese and French. 

Dorothee Hutter is a trained mediator, a specialist in conflict management and an expert in strategic communication. She has been working for more than 30 years in international cooperation, for NGOs as well as for state institutions. She spent several years working abroad, amongst others in Brazil and East Africa. For the last five years she has worked on the Syrian conflict, being based in Southeast Turkey, with offices in Lebanon and Iraq. Her expertise includes dialogue, peace building and mediation support on all tracks. Dorothee loves working with people and has long-standing experience in leading international teams and projects. She speaks English and Portuguese, has a sound knowledge of French and Spanish and intermediate knowledge of spoken Arabic.Paragraph. Zur Bearbeitung hier klicken.

Brigitta von Messling ​(Co-founder and Co-coordinator of the WPM Germany Network) is a mediation expert, currently heading the regional office of the UN Verification Mission in Cúcuta/ Colombia (UNVMC). Prior to that, she was Head of Training at the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF). She has experience in Colombia, Liberia and the Western Balkans. She worked for UN DPO and DPPA peace operations, as well as with non-governmental organisations, focussing on peace agreement implementation. In 2015, Brigitta helped constitute the newly created mediation department at the German Federal Foreign Office. She speaks English and Spanish.

Kathrin Quesada, trained lawyer and mediator, holds the strong belief that conflict can only be transformed through the power of genuine self-reflection and empathy. Before leading mediatEUr, where she concentrated on supporting the EU in its conflict prevention and mediation efforts worldwide, she worked for the OSCE and DCAF on human rights and security sector reform in the Western Balkans and North Africa. Kathrin brings a deep understanding of the significance of security issues in peace process support, and for the development of sustainable peace agreements. Kathrin speaks English and French.

Lisa Reefke specializes in conflict resolution and mediation processes, with experience in supporting Track 1 and Track 2 peace negotiations and national dialogue processes, as well as inclusion strategies. Lisa has 20 years of professional experience in peace missions and at United Nations Headquarters and has focused on conflict situations in Afghanistan, East Africa (South Sudan, Burundi), the Middle East (Lebanon) and Timor-Leste. Since the beginning of 2019, she has served as Senior Political Affairs Officer, and Deputy Head of the Political Department at the United Nations political mission in Afghanistan.

Silke Rusch is a mediation expert in peace process design and security arrangements, including the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of non-state armed groups. She currently serves as Senior Programme Management Officer at the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). Over the past 15 years she has supported conflict parties in the negotiation and implementation of track one peace agreements as a UN official working with the UN field missions in the Central African Republic, Libya and Sudan and at headquarters in New York and Geneva. Silke is fluent in English and French and has basic knowledge of Arabic.

Luxshi Vimalarajah is a peace mediation scholar and practitioner with 20 years of field experience, assisting mediation, negotiation and facilitating high-level dialogue processes- from Sri Lanka to North Macedonia, Basque Country, Nepal, Myanmar, Colombia and Yemen. She is a Senior Mediation and Negotiation Advisor at the Berghof Foundation. For many years she has been accompanying armed movements in negotiations and has developed the National Dialogue Handbook, Constitution-making-Mediation and Insider Mediation. Luxshi speaks English.

Dr. Katrin Wittig is a conflict resolution and mediation expert with a specialisation in power-sharing and the integration of rebel groups into societies emerging from conflict. Katrin currently serves as Political Affairs Officer with the Special Advisor in the Office of the SRSG in MINUSMA. Regionally, she has worked in the African Great Lakes (Burundi, DRC and Rwanda) as well as in the Sahel (Mali). She speaks fluent English and French and has basic knowledge in Swahili and Bambara.