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Viviane Schönbächler
Viviane Schönbächler is currently a Ph.D. fellow at the doctoral programme ‘Global Media Assistance: Applied Research, Improved Practice in the 21 Century’ (MEDAS21) (Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, TU Dortmund) and research associate at the Institute of Media Studies in Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She studied international relations and peace and conflict studies in Geneva, Beirut and Castellón, and holds an M.Phil. in peace, conflict and development studies from the University Jaume I. She conducted various short-term trainings in communication for peace, non-violent communication and conflict-sensitive journalism and helped establish several grassroots humanitarian organizations based in Turkey and Lebanon from 2013 to 2016. Latest, she worked in a ZFD program (Civil Peace Service) with Eirene International in Burkina Faso in the area of conflict-sensitive journalism (2016–18).