Alexandra

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Name

Alexandra

Welcome to our community: How do you define PEACE?

First of all peace is the absence of war.

Of violence.

What is violence?

Direct, physical violence is very visible.

But also being hurt verbally, or in the invisible manners of hierarchies, structures, cultures.

Okay, if all these kinds of violence wouldn’t be there – how would that be?

There would be harmony between people, inner peace, you would have a good self-esteem and you would love others or at least accept them in there diversity. You could feel safe. You didn’t have to suffer from material lack or from the lack of other things, like lack of love, trust. You would feel free to express yourself – and you would respect the opinions and limits of others.

Many would use conflict as the possibility to create something new and to admire the changes in life. And there would also be anger that would be expressed freely – in a way that does not really hurt others.

There would be a lot of laughing about so-called mistakes. There would be dancing. There would be theatre. There would be celebrating life.

People would share instead of compete and thereby hurt each other. There would be another system than capitalism, a system in which really everybody has equal rights and possibilities to participate – and influence. It would maybe be called democratique, but it would not be our version of representative democracy.

Okay, this is the vision of my absolute peace – but this would have to be mixed with the vision of others – their versions of peace. And hopefully we could construct parts of it together.

In fact we will have something between violences and peace. Gradual peace. And a little violence would be already pretty good for me.

 

Do you have any professional experience in the field of peace-research? peace-studies? peace-practice?

I am a peace worker – theatre pedagogue in the Civil Peace Program in Cameroon.

And I am just studying part-time a Master in “Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding” (Oxford-Brookes University and UNITAR (United Nations Network for Training and Research)

 

Are you at all familiar with concepts of Nonviolence and Conflict Transformation?

Yes but I wanna learn more

What is your main regional focus?

Bafoussam

Languages

Deutsch

English

Francais

CV

Professional experience:

2016 – now: civil peace worker in the “project theatre for peace and the oppressed” in Bafoussam / Cameronn

2013 – 2016: freelancer theatre pedagogue, systemic counsellor (psychologist)

2007 – 2013: theatre pedagogue, director, actrice at a theatre in Hamburg and in Magdeburg / Germany

 

Educational Background

2017 – now: Master of Arts “Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding” (Oxford Brookes University in cooperation with UNITAR – United Nations Institute for Training and Research (part time for professionals in the field))

2015-2016: Master of Science in Psychology (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena / Germany)- pending

2014-2016: Systemic Counsellor at Psychotherapeutisches Weiterbildungszentrum für systemisch-integrative Konzepte (Hamburg / Germany)

2009-2015: Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Fernuniversität in Hagen / Germany)

2003-2007: Education as a professional actrice (full time at Freiburger Schauspielschule in Freiburg / Germany) and additionally and part-time as a theatre pedagogue (Theaterwerkstatt Heidelberg in Heidelberg / Germany)

 
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