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Natalie Brandenburg is a PhD researcher specialising in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent/BSIS as well as a certified mediator. Prior to joining BSIS, she was working for the mediation start-up of Dr Juan Diaz (Ingroup Berlin) as the associate for the MENA region. She also has work experience in the field of development politics and has collaborated as a research assistant with Professor Bernd Sösemann (FU Berlin, Germany) and Professor Nadim Rouhana (Mada al-Carmel, Haifa, Israel). She received a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany as well as a BA in literature, history and social and cultural anthropology from the Free University of Berlin.
Natalie’s research interests are mainly centred upon mediation, facilitation and negotiation, comprehensive and context-specific approaches to conflict prevention and resolution, foreign policy analysis, and the European Union.
Her PhD project focuses on EU peace mediation capacities and is supervised by Dr Tom Casier and Professor Richard Whitman.