Karin Griese

Karin Griese, M.A., an editor, sociologist and trauma counsellor, is head of the Trauma Work Department at the women's NGO medica mondiale in Cologne, Germany. medica mondiale has founded women and girls centres and multidisciplinary programs for the support of female survivors of sexualized violence during war and conflict in Bosnia, Albania, Kosova, Afghanistan and Liberia. Furthermore the organisation supports NGO's that work with the same target group in countries all over the world, e.g. in Sudan, Uganda, DR Congo, Indonesia, India, Turkey, Mexico.

At medica mondiale Karin Griese is part of the management team and is since 2004 involved in program conception and professional back-up related to psychosocial and traumawork as well as to the development of training programmes in areas of war and conflict. She edited the German and English version of the book: "Violence against women in war: Handbook for professionals working with traumatized women", Frankfurt/M. 2005.