Vesna Matovic is Manager of the Training and Learning team – Peacebuilding Issues Programme.
Vesna leads the development and implementation of training and learning strategies and programmes aimed at influencing the policies and practices of donors, international agencies and the continual development of Alert’s own peacebuilding practice.

Vesna has more than 15 years of experience in peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Her main areas of interest are: learning and change processes in conflict transformation, conflict analysis, conflict sensitivity, dialogue and mediation and strategies for peace. She has experience working with individuals, organisations and networks in the Balkans, Middle East, East Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Central Asia.

Hawah Bunduka is Senior Training Officer for the Peacebuilding Issues Programme. Hawah leads Alert’s training of UN agencies, international NGOs, donors and local community organisations in order to improve their peacebuilding policy and practice. She also helps develop training tools for use by Alert’s programmes.

Hawah has 10 years’ experience in international development, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Her main areas of interest are social protection, community safety and security, gender equity and organisational learning and development. She has experience working with communities, organisations and institutions in the UK, West Africa, East Africa, South Africa, the Middle East, Central America and South and Southeast Asia.

Pia Frohwein is a Senior Peacebuilding Trainer and Facilitator at International Alert – Peacebuilding Issues Programme. Pia designs and implements trainings on conflict transformation, conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding for non-governmental and governmental organisations and academia aimed at supporting processes of change and decision making at all levels.

Pia has over 20 years of experience working in and on conflict and peace related issues in Venezuela, Israel, Germany and the Philippines.  Her particular areas of expertise are identity processes in conflict, cultural diversity, gender, development and conflict, transitional justice and mediation.

Katrien Hertog is a Senior Peacebuilding Trainer and Facilitator at International Alert – Peacebuilding Issues Programme. She delivers trainings on conflict-sensitivity for governmental organisations and universities, connecting academic understandings of peacebuilding with policy-making and practice in the field.

Katrien is a peacebuilding scholar and practitioner with more than 10 years of experience in both the academic and the non-governmental sector. As a researcher she has worked specifically on the deeper layers of peacebuilding and the role of religions in peacebuilding. As a peacebuilding practitioner she has worked in the Middle East, Asia and Europe on issues of Track 2 diplomacy, violent extremism, minorities, nonviolence, human rights, prisoner rehabilitation and peace spirituality.