Katherine has in excess of 20 years-experience in leading environmental dialogue processes with productive outcomes. Over the years she has facilitated dialogue on serious – sometimes highly charged – issues in a range of culturally and religiously different settings. Disputes and problems that have the potential to directly impact upon people’s lives and livelihoods, for example disaster risk and flooding. This experience is wide-ranging and includes; climate change assignments engaging with senior – climate sceptic - public officials (West Africa); land-use planning dialogue between developers and anti-capitalist demonstrators (UK); landowners subject to compulsory purchase orders on fields set to be used for flood storage (UK) and hydro-political pollution related dialogue (Middle East).
An experienced and creative process designer Katherine is practiced at designing bespoke discussion methods most appropriate to the tasks in hand. In doing this, she draws on experience drawn from natural resources management, public administration, and increasingly, peacekeeping sectors.
Katherine holds an International MA in Conflict, Peace and Security and a Post-Graduate Diploma in in Armed Conflicts and Crisis Management both from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva This is the formal UN Peace-keeping training programme.