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David Becker is a trained psychologist and PhD. After having worked for many years with victims of political persecution in Chile he is now based at the International Academy for Innovative Education, Psychology and Economy (INA) at the Free University of Berlin, of which he is vice president. In 2002 he was a co-founder of the Office for Psychosocial Issues (OPSI) at the International Academy (INA), through which he works as a consultant for international organizations in reference to psychosocial projects in regions of conflict and war. He has published extensively on the issues of trauma, human rights, and dealing with the past. His most recent book was published in Germany in 2006 and is titled "Die Erfindung des Traumas – Verflochtene Geschichten" (The invention of Trauma- Entangled Histories"). Together with Barbara Weyermann he has authored the toolkit "Gender, Conflict Transformation and the Psychosocial Approach" and is currently working for SDC on the introduction and implementation of the psychosocial approach into Conflict Sensitive Programme Management (focus: Tajikistan, Grands Lacs, Nepal, Colombia). He is furthermore engaged in institutional coaching and training in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Vive Zene/IAMANEH) and Palestine (WEP-GCMHP/CFD). Since 2008 he is directing the OPSI-teams dedicated to three-year evaluation and scientific coaching of two groups of model projects operating within a program of the German Government, the first deals with Germany as an immigration country (34 projects) and the second deals with youth at risk of engaging with right wing parties (18 projects). Since 2008 he is "Privatdozent" (German academic degree of professor) at the University of Hannover, Germany, where he teaches Social/Political Psychology.
Contact : david.becker@fu-berlin.de
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Kathrin Groninger is a psychologist and is presently training as a psychotherapist at the Institute for Psychological Psychotherapy and Counseling in Berlin. From 2000-2004, Kathrin Groninger was associated with the service center for refugees and immigrants of the German Red Cross in Berlin. From 2004 – 2008 she worked for the Civil Peace Service of the German Development Service in Rwanda. There she was associated with the Rwandan NGO Ibuka and developed psychosocial projects to address post-conflict related trauma and to support traumatized witnesses of the Gacaca Courts. With the Rwandan human rights organization Kanyarwanda she provided psychosocial support for women and girls who had become victims of rape during the genocide. At OPSI, she currently develops materials and tools and works in project evaluation and research.
Contact : groninger@ina-fu.org
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Lenssa Mohammed holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Psychology and a Master of Science in Applied Social Psychology. Her main research interests are migration and related identity processes as well as processes of traumatisation related to migration. In her master’s thesis she has examined identity processes in a sample of Turkish immigrants in Germany focussing on the role of perceived identity threat and coping strategies in explaining their mental health situation. In September 2011 she has started to work for OPSI and is currently working in the GIZ funded project “Developing and Improving the Capacity of the UNRWA School Counselling System in the Gaza Strip”.
Contact : mohammed@ina-fu.org
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Sibylle Rothkegel is a psychologist and psychotherapist. She has worked as trainer and evaluator for different projects in the area of trauma and recovery (Services in Overseas, Caritas International, Christlicher Friedensdienst Bern/CH, IRCT, UNHCR) in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Marocco, Bosnia and Herzegowina, Kosovo, Palestine, Russia and Sierra Leone. From 1994 to 2002, Sibylle Rothkegel was deputy director of the Treatment Center for Torture Victims in Berlin. For the next five years she led the psychological counseling service for victims of right winged, racist and antisemit violence. In 2003, she co-founded OPSI and in 2005 she co-founded the institute ‘Justice would help’ in Berlin. Since 2008, Sibylle Rothkegel has been the leader of OPSI’s project for the scientific accompaniment of model projects dealing with Germany as an immigration country, connected to the German federal state program "VIELFALT TUT GUT. Jugend für Vielfalt, Toleranz und Demokratie" (2008-2011). For the German Institute for Human Rights she regularly trains police and legal staff in dealing with traumatized persons and in intercultural communication.
Her main interests are human rights, gender issues, intercultural communication, trafficking, support of traumatised witnesses at the International Court, migration, forced displacement, vicarious traumatisation and burnout, crisis interventions.
Contact : sibrot@yahoo.de
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