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Michelle Parlevliet


Senior Associate
Geneva
parlevliet@reospartners.com

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Michelle creates space for insight, innovation, and transformation by skillfully connecting and engaging diverse people, worlds, and ideas.

About

Michelle Parlevliet is a process facilitator, peacebuilding practitioner, and writer who works with diverse groups and organizations to bring about social change. She brings 25 years’ experience in design and facilitation of dialogue, strategic reflection and learning processes, having worked at community, national, and international levels in Southern and East Africa, South and South East Asia, and Europe. Her substantive expertise focuses on peacebuilding, conflict prevention, human rights, access to justice, transitional justice, and development. Michelle believes that the complex challenges we face in our communities and society at large warrant collaboration across communities, organizations and sectors. She is comfortable dealing with friction that may arise when different perspectives and approaches meet, recognizing that this often fuels creativity and change when handled skillfully and with respect for diverse experiences and backgrounds.

Michelle has spent substantial periods of her life living and working in contexts undergoing profound social and political change, such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Aceh and Nepal. This has greatly influenced her world view, style and skills. She engages in ongoing personal development and reflection and has developed competencies in organization and systems coaching.

Expertise

Conflict transformation, human rights, group dialogue, reflective practice, facilitation, process design

Selected Projects

  • Cyprus Transformative Scenarios Process
 

Background

  • Designed and facilitated processes for NGOs, UN agencies, and independent state institutions including Northern Ireland Parades Commission, Nepal’s land rights movement, the South African Human Rights Commission, Netherland’s Ministry of Justice and Security, and the UN System Staff College
  • Taught as core faculty in MA Conflict Resolution and Governance at the University of Amsterdam
  • Consulted on community development and post-conflict reconstruction for the World Bank in
    Indonesia
  • Served as senior conflict transformation adviser for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs at end of the civil war in Nepal
  • Served on the Advisory Committee for the Cultural Emergency Response Programme at the Prince Claus Fund in the Netherlands
  • Founded the Human Rights and Conflict Management Programme at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in South Africa
  • Worked with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Education

  • MA in Political Science (International Relations), University of Amsterdam (cum laude)
  • MA in International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA)
  • PhD in Law, University of Amsterdam (Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award)
  • Various trainings in participatory processes, personal development, organization & relationship systems coaching, leadership
  • Registered Yoga Teacher (200hrs)

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