Team
The International Office in Bern is responsible for the operational implementation of all our activities. The team plans, manages and implements our worldwide activities in close cooperation with our partner organisations abroad.
This includes the peacebuilding programmes, which are mainly implemented in fragile and conflict-affected countries and regions. In addition, the team coordinates and moderates the international network of peace and women's rights activists and engages in political advocacy on feminist and peace policy issues.
Camille Bernheim
Programmes
Since her youth, Camille Bernheim has been committed to peaceful and inclusive societies. She contributed to the social inclusion of refugees at the Asylum Organization Zurich (AOZ). Other positions included a traineeship in the Peace and Human Rights Division of the Swiss Foreign Ministry (FDFA), where she supported the coordination of peace projects in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). At Swisspeace, she supported research for a project on transitional justice in Colombia, South Africa and Germany as part of her Master’s programme. Camille Bernheim holds a Master of Arts in "Changing Societies: Conflicts - Migration - Resources" from the University of Basel.
She has been working for PeaceWomen Across the Globe since July 2023, currently in the Programme Peacebuilding After Armed Conflict.
Carla Weymann
Programmes
Carla Weymann holds a MA degree in International Humanitarian Action (NOHA+) from the universities of Bochum (Germany) and Uppsala (Sweden). During a semester abroad in Colombia she focused on peace and post-conflict studies and conflict resolution. Previously she studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. During her studies, Carla set up a meeting place for women with and without a history of migration. She is a trained mediator and runs a voluntary organisation that campaigns for educational equality and child health in Sierra Leone.
Carla has been working for PeaceWomen Across the Globe in various roles since 2019. Among other responsibilities, she coordinated our global network of peace activists Feminists Connecting for Peace. Since November 2024, she has been working in the Peacebuilding During Peace Negotiations programme.
Caroline Morrissey
Translation and editing
Caroline Morrissey’s background is in cultural relations; she was Director of the British Council in Switzerland for over 30 years. She has an Honours degree in Education and has more than 25 years' experience initiating, developing and delivering programmes in Switzerland and elsewhere, in areas such as education, the arts, climate change, governance and youth engagement. She also has substantial experience developing and managing networks, and worked with our network from 2015 until 2021. She continues to support our work by translating and editing texts.
Christina Stucky
Communications
Christina Stucky began working as a journalist after graduating with a History degree in the USA. She has worked as a reporter on newspapers in the USA and Switzerland and as a freelance journalist in the Czech Republic, where she completed a semester programme in film production at FAMU. In 1994 she began working for national newspapers in South Africa, covering a range of topics and events, including the country’s first democratic elections, the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the genocide in Rwanda. From 2000-2002 she was the southern Africa correspondent for the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. In South Africa she began working as a trainer, running workshops for journalists from sub-Saharan Africa and later communication and media workshops for NGOs. After returning to Switzerland in 2007, she conceptualised communication workshops for the local staff of the Swiss Cooperation Offices of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). From 2007-2017 she worked in different communication roles at the SDC and FDFA in Bern. She joined PeaceWomen Across the Globe as communications manager in May 2019.
Deborah Schibler
Management
Since her youth, Deborah Schibler has been committed to a world marked by non-violence, justice and solidarity. After studying law in Fribourg and Dublin and qualifying as a lawyer in Lucerne, she worked as a delegate and coordinator for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in armed conflicts and other situations of violence. She visited prisoners and detainees, worked to protect civilians, re-established contact between family members, and accompanied the families of missing persons. Her work took her to Jordan, Iraq, Madagascar, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama and Costa Rica. From 2019, she was seconded to the Organisation of American States' special mission to the Colombian peace process as member of the Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). For four years, she accompanied the peace efforts in Colombia, coordinating projects to promote civil participation, especially of women and young people, and dialogue in regions affected by conflict and violence. She is one of the first members of the Swiss Women in Peace Processes network, founded in 2021. It comprises and networks Swiss women who work for the FDFA, for non-governmental organisations or for international organisations worldwide to promote peace.
Deborah took over the management of PeaceWomen Across the Globe’s the international office in May 2023.
Karin Widmer
Programmes
Karin Widmer worked for the Civil Peace Service (Ziviler Friedensdienst ZFD) in Mindanao in the south of the Philippines for six years until 2021. Together with local peace partners, mainly from civil society, she contributed to an inclusive and just peace. Previously, Karin Widmer spent seven years at the Swiss section of Amnesty International as Youth Coordinator and Human Rights Education Coordinator. She holds a licentiate (equivalent to Master of Arts) in Cultural Anthropology, which she combined with Sustainability Studies and International Law. She is a passionate advocate for inclusion, justice and participation. She loves to spend her free time in the mountains and with her family. She started working for PeaceWomen Across the Globe in the programme Peacebuilding After Armed Conflict in August 2022.
Katharina Stöckli
Fundraising
Katharina Stöckli has a Master's degree in History and Islamic Studies from the University of Basel. She also completed further training courses in fundraising and communication.
Previously, Katharina Stöckli worked for various NGOs in Switzerland and abroad, including the Crescenda association, the Tatkraft association and Gender Concerns International in The Hague. In addition to her commitment to equality and inclusion, she devotes her free time to long-distance running and her cat.
She has been working as a fundraiser for PeaceWomen Across the Globe since December 2023.
Larissa Mina Lee
Network & Advocacy
Larissa Mina Lee has a Master's degree in Development Studies and during her studies worked in communications at Sage und Schreibe, a small but excellent publishing house in Bern. Before that, she did internships at Peace Brigades International and at foraus, the Swiss think tank for foreign policy. Since her youth, she has been committed to peace, justice and participation, including as a delegate in the 2015 Youth Session and the 2021 Women's Session in Switzerland, and volunteering with various organisations in the areas of human rights, sexual health and democracy. She works in the section Network and Advocacy for PeaceWomen Across the Globe in September 2023.
Liv Halperin
Programmes
For two decades, Liv had the privilege to work in conflict resolution, human rights/refugee rights and humanitarian affairs with the ICRC, UNHCR, Switzerland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and various NGOs, in Peru, Mozambique, Angola, Haiti, Colombia and Israel/Palestine. Side by side with dedicated and courageous colleagues, she visited detainees in prisons and police stations and civilians in conflict-affected areas, liaised and negotiated with weapon carriers and authorities, contributed to family reunifications, oversaw the establishment of a national asylum procedure, and advocated for the rights of asylum seekers and refugees. As the Director of Research and Policy at the ECF think tank (2021-2024), Liv developed policy designed to create the conditions for a successful resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. She is also an active member of the Swiss Women in Peace Processes (SWiPP) professional network.
Parallel to her path as a practitioner, Liv also pursues an academic journey. Her research focuses on contemporary Israeli-Palestinian peace movements and on gendered forms of nonviolent resistance. Three of her articles were published in 2022-2023 in peer-reviewed journals. In 2023-2024, Liv co-taught a class entitled “History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at New York University (Tel Aviv site). She also taught the course “Introduction to nonviolent resistance, social and peace activism” at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Starting in February 2025, Liv teaches at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (the Geneva Graduate Institute). Liv holds a BA and MA in international relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute, a MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Ph.D. from the Department of Conflict Resolution and Management at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She was also a post-doctoral fellow on gender, conflict resolution and peace at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations (Hebrew University) from 2022-2024.
Liv has been working for PeaceWomen Across the Globe since September 2024 in the programme Peacebuilding During Peace Negotiations.
Nadine Schindler
Finance and Administration
Nadine Schindler has been working in the administrative field for 25 years and has profound knowledge in accounting, personnel administration, secretarial management and event organisation. She has worked in various NGOs, including the GründerZentrum Bern, the association Neue Arbeitsplätze für Könizer*innen and most recently the Dingle Hub in Ireland.
Nadine returned to Switzerland in spring 2023, swimming in local waters again instead of the wild Atlantic Ocean. She has been working in finance and administration for PeaceWomen Across the Globe since 2023 and is very happy to be part of the motivated team.