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Lisa Rudnick


Senior Associate
Geneva

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Lisa Rudnick is a strategic designer and researcher working across sectors and with diverse groups to create positive impact. She brings nearly 20 years of experience working at the intersection of research and design in the contexts of security, peacebuilding,  humanitarian action, and policy innovation. With a background in the ethnography of communication, she has worked across a wide range of thematic areas and applied challenges around the globe, including community security, protection, reintegration, and localization. Since 2016 her substantive focus has been on the weaponization of information and supporting various actors (humanitarian, peacebuilding, and human rights) in exploring the challenges this presents to their strategies and practices, the communities they serve, and the relationships they share.

Lisa believes in the power of informed dialogue to catalyze meaningful action and is dedicated to fostering that transition. She is a co-creator of approaches to local strategies research, evidence-based design, strategic design, and accountable innovation which she uses to help diverse stakeholders find and create shared possibilities.

Expertise

Evidence-based Design, Design Thinking, Process Design, Cultural Communication, Qualitative and Applied Research, the Weaponization of Information, International Programming

 

Background

Served as Senior Researcher and Project Manager at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research 

Served as Head of the International Peacebuilding Advisory Team and Principle Investigator (collaborative humanitarian response and resilience to violent conflict) at Interpeace

Co-designed and facilitated multi stakeholder events 

Visiting Researcher at the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley from 2017 – 2019

Conducted work with World Vision’s Nepal Innovation Lab, the Global Protection Cluster (UNHCR) the International Committee of the Red Cross, Nonviolent Peacforce, and Internews among others.

Her work has been published in Design Issues, the Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Great Plains Quarterly, the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and by the United Nations, Oxford University Press, and Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

 

Education

MA, Ethnography of Communication

University of Massachusetts at Amherst



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