Dr. Anne Holper


Anne Holper

Institute for Conflict Management

Co-Head of the Center for Peace Mediation & Academic Director of the certificate program ViAPACS

After studying literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and training in mediation, Anne Holper specialised in applied conflict research and political philosophy in a PhD at the Competence Centre Ethics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, including research stays at Renmin University Beijing with an EU-China Fellowship from the Centre for Applied Policy Research(CAP).

Anne Holper has 20 years of experience in action-oriented research, support and optimisation of mediation and decision-making processes in international political contexts, including in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office (Viadrina Mediation Hub, dialogue processes in Ukraine). Her focus is on developing innovative methods for "intractable" conflicts (Tough Choices research clusters with the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, swisspeace and Mediation and Dialogue Research Center of Kyiv Mohyla Academy).

She teaches at the Viadrina (ViAPACS, IHL, MSMKM), for the International Diplomacy Academy of the Federal Foreign Office and the International Parliamentary Fellowship Programme of the German Bundestag. As a coach and supervisor (DSGv) she accompanies international and local third-party actors. She is also a faculty member of the master's degree programme Mediation and Conflict Management and the Master of International Humanitarian Rights and Humanitarian Law (LL.M.).

Conflicting goals and the interplay of preconditions for effectiveness in integrated peace engagement

Systematic dilemma management

Conflict mediation in the context of polarisation and system rivalry

Systemic solution-orientated supervision and coaching

Focus contexts Ukraine, Middle East and China

An overview of all the publications that have been recorded is available here.

Contact

Main Building (HG)
Große Scharrnstraße 59
15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
  • HG 070

+49 335 5534 5308 holper@europa-uni.de