Team
Dr Sebastian Relitz
Founder & Director
relitz@opencorridors.de
Sebastian is a peacebuilding expert with a Ph.D. on conflict resolution in the South Caucasus and Eastern Europe with 20 years work experience . He is passionate about developing and implementing impactful dialogue and confidence building processes. Sebastian has sound experience in consulting international organisations on peacebuilding and security related questions.
Mariam Buhagiar
South Caucasus Program Manager
buhagiar@opencorridors.de
Mariam is a dedicated program manager with over 13 years of experience in the non-profit sector, focused on supporting vulnerable communities through their empowerment and education. She has a strong background in managing projects, coordinating teams, and fostering collaboration to achieve sustainable outcomes.
Paata Alaverdashvili
Project Manager and Trainer
alaverdashvili@opencorridors.de
Paata has extensive background in mental health and trauma studies. He has been working in the youth work field since 2011 and in peacebuilding since 2015. Paata is facilitating holistic peace education processes and is currently exploring the element of trauma in peacebuilding processes.
Felip Daza Sierra
Ukraine Program Coordinator
felip.daza@gmail.com
Felip is a researcher and practitioner on the field of peacebuilding, human security and nonviolent civil resistance. He has more than 15 years' experience working in conflict-affected areas in the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and South Caucasus regions. Felip is also an educational expert and senior consultant for UN and Universities such as Sciences Po Paris.
Liana Vahanyan
Communications and Outreach
vahanyan@opencorridors.de
Liana is a Corridors alumna. She has a strong background in communications, project coordination, grant acquisition and fundraising, and youth development. She is passionate about youth empowerment and public participation, peacebuilding, and non-formal and inclusive education.
Lela Gachechiladze
Financial Manager
gachechiladze@opencorridors.de
Lela is the operations and financial management expert and holds an MBA degree in Development Economics and International Development. She has more than twenty years of experience in main programming, financial, procurement, grants management, administrative, and decision-making processes of the international donor programs, as well as local rules and procedures.
Background Information
Corridors - Dialogue through Cooperation is a German peacebuilding NGO. Since 2016, the organisation evolved from research and project work at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies and Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Corridor's conceptual and thematic approach is thus strongly rooted in intensive academic analysis of the challenges and opportunities for civil society conflict transformation and dialogue promotion. In 2019, Corridors was finally established as a non-profit organisation in Berlin and has since evolved into one of Germany's leading peacebuilding NGOs in the South Caucasus and Eastern Europe.
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