The Advisory Board

The German government mandates the members of the Advisory Board for Civilian Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding for four years. The current Advisory Board (2023 - 2026) includes twenty members from German academia and civil society.

About the Advisory Board

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Bodo von Borries

Head of Department Humanitarian Assistance, Peacebuilding and Participation at VENRO, the umbrella organisation of development and humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Germany

Advisory Board Chair
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PD Dr Julia Leininger

Head of the department ‘Transformation of political (dis)order’ at the Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) in Bonn

Advisory Board Chair
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Milena Berks

Milena Berks is a Senior Advisor and Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (bicc)
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Lieutenant General (retired) Rainer L. Glatz

Former commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command as well as former Senior Distinguished Fellow of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
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Prof Dr Anita Gohdes

Professor of International and Cyber Security at the Hertie School
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Melanie Hauenstein

Director, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Germany Representation Office (GRO), Bureau for External Relations and Advocacy (BERA)
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Dr Jörg Lüer

Managing Director of the German Commission Justitia et Pax, and Catholic Managing Director of the Joint Conference Church and Development
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Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei

Uwe Marquardt

Acting President of the German Police University
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Alexander Mauz, forumZFD

Alexander Mauz

Chairman of Pro Peace and representative of the consortium for the Civil Peace Service (ZFD)
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Dr Jochen Motte

Member of the Coordination Board of the Forum Human Rights and Member of the Board of the United Evangelical Mission
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Nora Müller

Director of the International Politics Division and Director of the Berlin office of the Körber Foundation
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Winfried Nachtwei

Winfried Nachtwei

Member of the Bundestag (retired)
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Nana Odoi

Manager of the Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt)
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Dr Jana Puglierin

Senior policy fellow and head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
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Ginger Schmitz

Managing Director of the German Platform for Peaceful Conflict Management
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Dr Barbora Šedová

FutureLab Leader at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
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Berghof Foundation

Luxshi Vimalarajah

Senior Peace Mediation Advisor at Berghof Foundation
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Dr Kira Vinke

Head of Center for Climate and Foreign Policy at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
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Dr Antonia Witt

Head of the Research Group "African Intervention Politics" at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF).
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Dr Jan Woischnik

Head of the Latin America Department at the Berlin headquarters of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)
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Former members

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Dr Melanie Coni-Zimmer

Senior Research Fellow and Project Leader at the Leibniz Institute at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
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Prof. Hans-Joachim Gießmann

Senior Advisor and former Managing Director of the Berghof Foundation
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Dr Jörn Grävingholt

Senior Researcher and Project Leader at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Prof. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder

Fellow at the Global Public Policy Insitute in Berlin and Professor of Political Science at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn.
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Christiane Kesper

Christiane Kesper

Director of the Department for International Development Cooperation at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
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Dr Claudia Major

Director of the Security Policy research group at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs
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Dr. Matthias Ries (c) Lisa Hanlon

–Jul 2025

Dr Matthias Ries

Manager of the Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt)
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Dr Sonja Katharina Schiffers

Director of the South Caucasus regional office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
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Deputy Commissioner Crime (retired) Lars Wagner

Former Deputy Commissioner Crime (ret.) at the German Police University
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Dr. Nadjma Yassari

Dr Nadjma Yassari

Research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg
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