Before joining swisspeace early 2003, Dr. Cordula Reimann was with the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford/UK, where she did postgraduate research and her doctorate on gender, conflict and peace-building. Her research has been expanded by various publications, field work in South Asia and the Middle East, university lecturer posts, and consultancy for different Swiss and international NGOs and governmental agencies in the area of gender, peacebuilding and development cooperation. Cordula worked in various peace research institutes and NGOs like the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, Berlin; Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, Washington, and has been active in local and national groups of amnesty international and worked in ai's international office in London.
Cordula, by first training a teacher, holds a BA (Hons.) in Politics and International Relations from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury/UK and a MA (German "Diplom-Politologie") in Politics from the Free University of Berlin.
In 2008 Dr. Cordula Reimann was visiting professor at the University of Graz/Austria and is currently visiting senior lecturer at the University if Basel. At KOFF and swisspeace, she is mainly responsible for gender & peace-building, conflict sensitivity, "state-of-the-art" of conflict transformation, Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) and trainings.