Jonathan Sisson studied Comparative Religions at Kenyon College in Ohio and Classical Philology and Biblical Exegesis at the University of Basel. Active in the peace movement during the Vietnam war, he began working for the German-speaking Swiss branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) in 1985. His activities covered a broad range of subjects including the development of training courses and manuals on non-violence and peace education as well as projects and campaigns in the field of migration and integration working with different refugee communities in Switzerland and abroad. Since 1998 he has represented the IFOR at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva where he worked on a number of issues, including violence against women in armed conflict and the violation of religious freedom in Tibet. In 2000, he was elected president of the international committee of IFOR. He is currently responsible for the training programme in peace work and conflict resolution offered by the Swiss Ecumenical Peace Programme. He joined the team at the Center for Peacebuilding (KOFF) as a program officer in February 2004, responsible for the themes of reconciliation and nonviolence and for the coordination of the KOFF roundtable on the Balkans.