Our Team
Tanja Mirabile. Tanja is an ethnologist and sociologist with a strong interest and experience in Latin America. She has gathered expertise especially in the areas of migration and integration as well as human rights. In 2008 Tanja completed a training in conflict transformation and Transcend approach by Johan Galtung. At the moment she is attending a certificate of advanced studies (CAS) training in development studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. As the executive director of the human rights organisation Incomindios she is also involved in peacebuilding and human rights work with Indigenous Peoples.
Pascal Gemperli. Pascal is a communications engineer and has a post-graduate diploma in peace and conflict studies as well as in intercultural communication. He is certified mediator (SDC/Inmedio) and has completed the training for Transcend-conflict-consultants (today Integrative Conflict Transformation) as well as the respective train-the-trainer program. He is especially interested in comprehensive approaches to mediation, conflict transformation and peacebuilding. In his primary occupation he works as a project officer for the "Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces" (DCAF) in the field of security sector reform. His work focuses on the Arab World.
Sari Miettinen. Sari is a historian with a focus on contemporary history, North American studies, media studies and international relations. She has years of experience in project management in the area of development cooperation and human rights especially in the areas of information– and communication technologies for development (ICT4D), policy work and Indigenous Peoples' rights. Currently she is attending a post-graduate training in integrative conflict transformation/mediation as well as in development studies.