Dr. Cordula Reimann

After 35 years of living in the UK and in Switzerland and some far-flung non-European corners of the world (just to keep things slighlty more interesting), I’ve ended up in a tiny hamlet in Northern Italy—basically just across the Swiss border, but still exotic enough to feel like an adventure.
I have a soft spot for nature, mountains, lakes—and people, with all their contradictions and wonderfully complicated sides. What fascinates me most is looking at complex social and political questions around justice and cohesion in a systemic, often unconventional way. Occasionally that means I enjoy ruffling a few feathers. When I really care about something, I can be “politely persistent” (which is a nicer way of saying stubborn).
Luckily, humor, strong coffee, a good conversation, and a reckless jump into the nearest lake usually keep me more or less sane.

I’m a broadly curious - and not always conventional - political scientist with a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies. For almost 30 years, I’ve been working as a process and dialogue facilitator, mediator, lecturer, and coach — in Switzerland and in crisis and conflict contexts abroad.
After many years in international peacebuilding, humanitarian aid, and development cooperation, my work now focuses on participatory approaches to social and political change processes, polarization, collective and transgenerational trauma, and the political dimensions of loneliness. (Light topics, I know ...and my dinner parties are not boring...:))