Overview
Nicola Dahrendorf is a practitioner with several decades experience in conflict and post-conflict settings with INGOs, the United Nations, the UK government and in an academic capacity. Her overall professional focus has been on peace building and conflict resolution, protection of civilians and child protection, sexual and gender-based violence and on security sector and justice reform in fragile environments. Her past UN work involved six peacekeeping operations in senior management positions.
She has worked at UNICEF HQ as Chief of Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy and with UNHCR for seven years on refugee law and protection issues in a number of conflict and post-conflict situations.