Diploma in Social Pedagogy, Master in Peace Studies and Security Policy

phone +49 681 98 50 16 7
i.bauer@ispo-institut.de
since 2012 Freelance consultant, evaluator and journalist
2016 Berghof Foundation | Project Manager: Peace Education in Iran
2014 – 2015 Aktionsgemeinschaft Dienste für den Frieden e.V. | Project Officer: Peace Education, Bundeswehr and School
2009 – 2012 Akademie für Konflikttransformation im Forum ziviler Friedensdienst e.V. | Pedagogical advisor
2006 – 2008 Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED) | Advisor Civil Peace Service Uganda
2003 – 2006 Landesverband der Arbeiterwohlfahrt Berlin | Project worker for specialist counselling in intercultural care for the elderly

Key Activities

Isabella Bauer is an expert in violence prevention, civil conflict transformation and mediation.
Her work focuses on conflict constellations at communal/local level. Since 2012, Ms Bauer has been working as a freelance consultant, evaluator and journalist for a variety of organisations from the social and development context at home and abroad. She is also an associate researcher at the Bonn International Center for Conversion. There she researches and publishes on violence prevention and conflict transformation in a communal context.
At the TH Köln, Ms Bauer is a lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Sciences. Violence protection concepts against sexualised violence are the focus of her work with elderly care facilities and hospitals.
Currently, Ms Bauer is researching and publishing on the peace action of refugee women youths. This focus follows on from her research and practical work in Uganda on the implementation of a peace agreement at regional level. She has lived and worked for several years in different regions including South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Israel and Nepal.