Charlotte has worked in peacebuilding for fourteen years. She currently leads International Alert’s central technical department. She is departmental head and strategic lead for Alert‘s thematic peacebuilding offer on conflict sensitivity, gender, peaceful economies, climate change & natural resource management. Her particular specialist focus covers approaches to peacebuilding, conflict sensitivity, gender and dialogue. She has expertise in gender sensitive peacebuilding, good governance and women’s political participation. She also established International Alert’s arts-based peacebuilding framework and designed and managed arts and reconciliation work in the Middle East. She is an experienced researcher, trainer and policy advocate with direct regional experience accross Africa (South Sudan), Middle East (Lebanon/Syria), South Asia (Nepal, Sri Lanka) and Latin America (Colombia).