Our Team

With a background in conflict resolution and project management, Floriane Prévert has worked for over ten years in contexts prone to violence on different continents. She developed a solid expertise in mediation, peacebuilding approaches, and negotiation with civil, state, and armed actors. Previously, she worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations, and Interpeace, among other organizations. Floriane joined CSSP’s team in May 2022 to work on strengthening the mediation system in Albania.

Bekim Ismaili obtained a university degree from the University of Prishtinë/Pristina in Management and Informatics in summer 2009. He holds a diploma from IBM University in the subjects WIFI, Vienna: know-how, project management, business process optimization, and conflict management, and graduated from the College of Machinery in Mitrovicë/Mitrovica in 1988. Mr. Ismaili worked with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and was head of the translation department for the Office of the Auditor General of Kosovo. He lives with his family in Mitrovicë/Mitrovica and is fluent in Albanian, English, and Serbian. Mr. Ismaili is a certified and licensed mediator, international child abduction and family law mediator (MIKK), community mediator and community-corporate mediator, as well as mediation trainer, certified by the Academy of Justice in partnership with the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He is the head of the CSSP Pristina office and was the first director of the Mediation Center in Mitrovica founded by CSSP in 2013.

Kristina Ćorić joined the CSSP team in Bosnia and Herzegovina in March 2018 as the coordinator for Mostar. Since the end of the (92–95) war in Mostar, she has been an activist for several local NGOs and civic initiatives. She has five years of experience working for international political organizations: the OHR in Mostar, where she worked in the fields of media development and public relations and the OSCE Political Resource Center for West Herzegovina in Ljubuski, where she supported the development of civil society. In the ten years prior to joining CSSP, she worked at a local, grassroots, independent youth and cultural center on project development and management, event organization, intercultural cooperation, and youth exchange projects. She has completed training courses in event and cultural management, European cultural networks, and intercultural and peace mediation. She believes in a bottom-up approach and the active participation of citizenry towards the revitalization of civilizational values and norms that have been partly suppressed or eradicated in the post-war society of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Vjola Goda is part of the CSSP Albania team. She holds a BA and a Master’s degree in law from the University of Padua, and has many years of experience as a lawyer specialized in international private law. Following her passion for conflict resolution and her interest in negotiation, she became a mediator in 2013, and actively contributed to the mediation system as a member of the Albanian National Chamber of Mediators.

She joined CSSP in May 2020 in the role of administrator of the Tirana Mediation Center and is now in charge of coordinating CSSP efforts that support mediation in the country.

Erik Mërtiri joined CSSP in April 2019, initially as the finance manager of the project in Albania. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in business administration and a Master’s degree in marketing from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Economics. Before joining CSSP, he worked for three years as an accounting assistant in a construction company and for four years as a tax and accounting associate in a professional service company for both national and international clients. His work experience includes bookkeeping, financial reporting, tax accounting, and financial statements, and he has knowledge of both local National Accounting Standards (NAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Arjola Kaçeri has over eight years of legal experience in both the public and private sectors. She holds a BA and a Master’s degree in law from the University of Tirana. She is a certified lawyer and a licensed mediator. She joined CSSP in March 2022 as Project Assistant and Coordinator of the Tirana Mediation Office. Her keen interest in alternative dispute resolution and mediation in particular contributes a strong added value to the project team.

Doruntina Murati Gashi has been a finance assistant at CSSP since 2017 and is responsible for accounting and financial management at the CSSP Prishtina office. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in banking, finance, and accounting from the University of Prishtina, Faculty of Economics.

With a background in international law and conflict mediation, Simone Ceresa has lived and worked for over ten years in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Belgium, El Salvador, Albania, and the U.S. and has gathered experience in Georgia, Cameroon, Egypt, and Finland, facilitating dialog in complex situations, strengthening human rights, and providing competent, balanced, and practical advice to the UN, the European External Action Service, and various international NGOs. He joined CSSP in 2018 as was the head of the programmes and offices in Albania and Kosovo. He additionally contributed to our NewGen project focussing on Eastern europe, lead the external relations actions from 2021 on and contributed to various short-term and expert assignments.

Through his previous work as country coordinator of Weltfriedensdienst (WFD) in Myanmar in the framework of civil peace service, as mainly self-employed systemic coach, mediator and start-up consultant, and as executive chairman of a German cultural NGO, Elmar has a wealth of experience in various fields of consultancy, leadership, and peace building. After his studies in philosophy, theology, psychology, and drama, he completed additional training courses in cross-cultural mediation, peace and conflict consultancy, systemic coaching, and management consultancy as well as systemic structural constellations. He prefers to act as a kind of catalyst, generating the impetus that enables other people to fully realize their potential.

Elmar continously supports CSSP activities in selected facilitation assignments and organisational development.

Christoph Werthmann worked in a variety of positions for CSSP: as Integrative Mediator and Programme Manager Kosovo, coordinator of the Initiative Mediation Support Germany (Berghof Foundation, CPM, CSSP, inmedio, ZIF) and its cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office, as a dialogue facilitator in CSSP’s Ukraine project (together with CPM and inmedio), as a trainer of theatre-facilitated dialogue in Nepal, as a project manager in charge of CSSP’s activities in Tunisia, as a project manager on Bosnia & Herzegovina and also for our regional activities strengthening mediation in the context of justice.

He is a certified mediator trained by Friedrich Glasl (2008), a Certified Peace and Conflict Consultant (Friedensfachkraft, 2011) and a psychological counsellor (2020). His experience includes different fields of facilitation from cross-track peace mediation to community, organisational and family mediation. Prior to joining CSSP in 2014, he worked as a freelance mediator, mediation and intercultural trainer as well as a peace researcher and university lecturer. Christoph holds an M.A. in International Cultural Studies and Political Sciences (Dipl.-Kulturw.) from the University of Passau. He served on the board of the German Peace Researchers Association (AFK). And, he is a Playback Theatre practitioner.

Christoph is a member of the CSSP association and realises selected assignments.