Team
Dr Sebastian Relitz
Founder & Director
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.
Paata Alaverdashvili
Project Manager and Trainer
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.
Lela Gachechiladze
Financial Manager
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.
Liana Vahanyan
Communications and Outreach
Liana is a Corridors alumna. She has a bachelor's degree in communications, and a strong background in 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.
Felip Daza Sierra
Ukraine Program Coordinator
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.
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.
Donors
