List of individual experts





Type of expert: Individual
First Name Zsuzsanna
Last Name Kacso
Sector of Activity NGO
Primary Field of Expertise Peace and security
Years of Expertise
  • >7
Employment Availability
  • Part-time
  • Collaboration
  • Consultancy
Duration
  • Short-term
  • Medium term
  • Long-term
Geographic Experience / Focus
  • Europe
  • South East Asia
  • Middle East
  • Africa
Gender Female
Second and Third Field
  • Sustainable development
  • National minorities
  • inter-ethnic reconciliation
  • Humanitarian assistance and crisis response
Peace and security
  • International arbitration and conflict mediation
  • Free and fair elections
Sustainable development
  • Education
National minorities and inter-ethnic reconciliation
  • National minorities and inter-ethnic reconciliation
Humanitarian assistance and crisis response
  • Humanitarian relief, civil emergency, crisis response
Countries you have worked in Cambodia, Egypt, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Liberia, Malaysia, Moldova-Transdniestria, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Romania, Singapore, UK, Ukraine.
Job Title Peacebuilding Program Director
Employer Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR)
Sector of Activity NGO
Other Languages
  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Arabic
English Professional Fluency
German Limited Knowledge
French Limited Knowledge
Spanish Limited Knowledge
Arabic Limited Knowledge
Papers / Articles Published

"Author:
1. Kacsó, Zsuzsanna, Successes and Challenges in Development Education and Youth Work in Egypt. Cumulative Impact and Needs Assessment Report, PATRIR, Cluj-Napoca, 2016.
2. Kacsó, Zsuzsanna, Civilian Conflict Management: The Role of Scenario Building in the Structural Prevention of Electoral Violence, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014.
3. Kacsó, Zsuzsanna, Între economie şi conflict. Asigurarea bunăstării şi siguranţei pe viitor (Between Economy and Conflict. The assurance and Welfare for the Future), LUMEN, Iaşi, Romania, 2007
4. Kacsó, Zsuzsanna, Relaţia NATO-PESC. Confruntare pentru securitatea colectivă? (The Relationship between NATO and CFSP. Confrontation for collective security?), LUMEN, Iaşi, Romania, 2006

Co-author:
1. Kacsó, Zsuzsanna, Peace Consolidation Strategy Building: From Analysis to Approach Selection-Handbook-, PATRIR and CPAU, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014.
2. Kacsó, Zsuzsanna, Adelina Decean, Samiullah Sabawoon, Tamim Sharizfai, Dr. Marshall Conley, Contributing to Peace Consolidation in Afghanistan. Needs Assessment Country Report, PATRIR and CPAU, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014.
3. Brand-Jacobsen, Kai Frithjof, Zsuzsanna Kacsó, Preventing Electoral Violence – Operational Guidance Note, The Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK, 2011
4. Brand-Jacobsen, Kai Frithjof, Zsuzsanna Kacsó, Corina Simon, Good Offices and Prevention – Operational Guidance Note, The Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK, 2010
5. Brand-Jacobsen, Kai Frithjof, Denis V. Matveev, Zsuzsanna Kacsó, ComSec: Working Together for Prevention of Good Offices – Operational Guidance Note, The Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK, 2009
6. Kacsó Zsuzsanna, „Instituţia preşedinţiei. Baze ale puterii prezidenţiale americane” (The Institution of Presidency. The Bases of Power of the American President), in Corneliu Nicolescu (coord.), Preşedinţia americană 1986-2007 (The American Presidency 1986-2007), Cluj-Napoca, Institutul de Studii Internaţionale, Editura Pro Vita, 2007"

Flagship Projects

"Project Director – Technical Assistance for Development and Civic Education in Egypt (4E)
Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) – Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Director, International Peace and Development Training Center (IPDTC)
Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) –Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Fellow, Volunteering for International Professionals, Ministry of Finance of Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur and Kulim, Malaysia
Consultant on women empowerment through human capital development and agriculture.

Negotiation School, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai – Cluj Napoca, Romania
Negotiation trainer and simulation facilitator for Romania-based cross-universities Negotiation School.

Lead evaluator and researcher - “Achieving the MDGs through Peacebuilding: Capacity building in transition to democracy, community based-dialogue and peacekeeping operations for international, national and local actors in Afghanistan”
Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) – Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Evaluator and Trainer with Intercultural Youth Dialogue Association (IYDA) - Cairo and Faiyum, Egypt
Peacebuilding trainer and programme evaluation within the project Volunteering in Peace.

Consultant for IKV Pax Christi - Netherlands and Turkey
Member of the evaluation and consultancy team tasked with the assessment, development and testing of an integrated “Methodology for Peacebuilding Strategy Development.”

Consultant for Alliance for Peace (AfP) - Kathmandu, Nepal
Member of international facilitation team for “Preventing Electoral Violence” and “Multi-stakeholder Strategic Process, Community Based Dialogue and Local Peacebuilding” programmes

Consultant for the Commonwealth Secretariat - London, UK
Member of the international evaluation and consultancy team for the Institutional Needs Assessment and Development programme: “Enhancing Commonwealth Good Offices and Violence Prevention Capacities: Organisational Strengthening and Institutional Development Consultancy”

Consultant for Mediation Northern Ireland - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Part of International Facilitator Group for “Systemic Peacebuilding NI” programme

Invited expert at the 7th Asian Roundtable Experts Meeting - Singapore
Peacebuilding and early warning expert for the “7th Asia-Europe Roundtable Experts Meeting: Early Warning Systems in Minority Conflicts”

Consultant for the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) - Monrovia, Liberia
Member of the international facilitation/ training team for “Early Warning and Prevention” workshop series

Additional info about your experience and skills

"Thematic expertise:
Conflicts analysis, program design and evaluation, project writing and management, strategic & systemic peacebuilding, general violence prevention (electoral violence prevention in particular), scenario building, organizational development and management, and knowledge management.

Managerial Experience Yes
Years of Managerial Experience 8
Trainings “Designing Peacebuilding Programmes (DPP)” (Advanced Certificate International training programme) – PATRIR, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; “Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation & Post - War Rebuilding, Reconciliation and Resolution (PCTR)” (Advanced Certificate International training programme) – PATRIR, Cluj-Napoca
Other Professional Certificates CONFLICT PREVENTION, RESOLUTION & RECONCILIATION Johns Hopkins University - SAIS and International Peace and Security Institute, Bologna, Italy
Degree Awarded Doctoral
Area of Study International Relations and European Studies
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