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Svenja Windisch
Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt)
Svenja Windisch started to work for GIZ in the Support to Local Governance Programme in Pakistan in 2018. In this capacity, she provided advisory support to a local government authority with regard to the right to information and gender-sensitive communication campaigns. She was also responsible for managing an intermedia entertainment education campaign featuring the (comic) character Qasim the Khadim. Previously, Svenja Windisch completed her Master's degree in International Studies/Peace and Conflict Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. As a student assistant at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, she wrote case descriptions for the data sets of Humanitarian Military Interventions 1946-2005 and Post-civil War Power and Compromise. Being interested in innovative and creative approaches to peacebuilding, she also planned a residency on Joseph Beuys’ social sculpture with Afghan and Pakistani artists during her internship with Heinrich Böll Foundation in the Regional Green Dialogs project. Her work focuses on peacebuilding, local governance, state-citizen dialogue, political participation, gender equality, and innovative communication approaches. Since March 2022, Svenja Windisch has been working for FriEnt as an advisor for international processes and agendas, addressing thematic points of connection between national and international debates on peacebuilding and crisis prevention.
Svenja Windisch started to work for GIZ in the Support to Local Governance Programme in Pakistan in 2018. In this capacity, she provided advisory support to a local government authority with regard to the right to information and gender-sensitive communication campaigns. She was also responsible for managing an intermedia entertainment education campaign featuring the (comic) character Qasim the Khadim.
Previously, Svenja Windisch completed her Master's degree in International Studies/Peace and Conflict Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. As a student assistant at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, she wrote case descriptions for the data sets of Humanitarian Military Interventions 1946-2005 and Post-civil War Power and Compromise. Being interested in innovative and creative approaches to peacebuilding, she also planned a residency on Joseph Beuys’ social sculpture with Afghan and Pakistani artists during her internship with Heinrich Böll Foundation in the Regional Green Dialogs project.
Her work focuses on peacebuilding, local governance, state-citizen dialogue, political participation, gender equality, and innovative communication approaches. Since March 2022, Svenja Windisch has been working for FriEnt as an advisor for international processes and agendas, addressing thematic points of connection between national and international debates on peacebuilding and crisis prevention.