INTERVIEW WITH PROF. SARA HELLMÜLLER, RESEARCH COORDINATOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE MEDIATION PROGRAM OF THE SWISSPEACE FOUNDATION

The Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM) has the pleasure to present the interview with Prof. Sara Hellmüller, research coordinator and director of the Mediation Program of the Swisspeace Foundation.

Hellmüller elucidates the possibilities of integration between the fields of Human Rights and Conflict Mediation, and address comments about a possible participation of civil society in the resolution of the Syrian conflict. The interview was conducted during the second edition of the‪ GSUM Winter School‬, organized in July 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, in which Prof. Hellmüller participated giving the course “International Mediation: actors and processes”.