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Tanja Kasten
Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt)
Tanja Kasten joined FriEnt in August 2019 and works on national and international policy agendas for peace and conflict, development cooperation, and security. In her previous positions as political scientist, as a policy consultant and as a development worker with local partners in Latin America she has gained ample experience on multi-stakeholder partnerships and effective cooperation for peace and development.
Before joining FriEnt, Tanja worked as a policy consultant for a GIZ programme on effectiveness and transparency in German development cooperation, as a development worker on civil security and conflict transformation in Guatemala, and as a junior expert for the Civil Peace Service in Peru.
Tanja holds a PhD in Political Science from the Helmut-Schmidt-University/ University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and conducted her dissertation on development effectiveness and peacebuilding in post-conflict countries with case studies in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
Tanja Kasten joined FriEnt in August 2019 and works on national and international policy agendas for peace and conflict, development cooperation, and security. In her previous positions as political scientist, as a policy consultant and as a development worker with local partners in Latin America she has gained ample experience on multi-stakeholder partnerships and effective cooperation for peace and development. Before joining FriEnt, Tanja worked as a policy consultant for a GIZ programme on effectiveness and transparency in German development cooperation, as a development worker on civil security and conflict transformation in Guatemala, and as a junior expert for the Civil Peace Service in Peru. Tanja holds a PhD in Political Science from the Helmut-Schmidt-University/ University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and conducted her dissertation on development effectiveness and peacebuilding in post-conflict countries with case studies in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.