Véronique Dudouet

Senior Advisor
Conflict Transformation Research

Berlin, Germany

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Dr. Véronique Dudouet is a Senior Advisor in the Conflict Transformation Research Department. Since 2005, she has led extensive research on peace negotiation and mediation processes, post-war political and security transitions, resistance/liberation movements, nonviolent resistance, and WPS. As part of the Advisory Team, she serves as focal point for inclusivity and participation in peace processes. She conducts regular peer-exchange and training activities for conflict parties and conflict-affected communities. She also carries out policy advice and consultancy research for governments and international agencies such as UNDP, UN DPO, OECD-DAC, EEAS. She serves on the Steering Group of the Institut de recherche sur la Résolution Non-violente des Conflits (IRNC, France) and the Politics After War (PAW) research network, she is also a fellow of the Center on Armed Groups, and Associate of the Catholic Institute for Nonviolence. In 2019, she was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington.

Véronique holds an MA and a PhD in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford, UK, as well as a BA in political science and a postgraduate research diploma (DEA) in International Relations and Security from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Toulouse, France. She has (co-)authored numerous publications in the field of conflict transformation, including four books: Post-war Security Transitions: Participatory Peacebuilding after Asymmetric Conflicts (Routledge 2012), Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transitions from Armed to Nonviolent Struggle (Routledge 2014), Nonviolent Resistance and Democratisation (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) and Vulnerability and Resilience to Violent Extremism (Routledge 2023).