Mark Salter

Note: Mark Salter is a former member of staff.

Job Title: Senior Programme Officer

Joined International IDEA in January, 2000.

Nationality: UK

Programme: Global Programme (Democracy and Diversity)

Office: Stockholm (HQ)

Expertise at International IDEA:

• Democracy and Diversity
• Democracy building and conflict management
• The interface between Customary Governance and Democratisation / Democratic Consolidation
• The role of traditional justice mechanisms (TJMs) in the response to violent conflict
• Reconciliation

Experience:

• Journalist and teacher by training
• Journalistic experience: BBC World Service, Radio Sweden International, several years freelancing for a range of British and international media outlets
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)1991-94
• Communications Director, Life and Peace Institute (LPI) 1995-99
• Peace research: participated in a number of applied conflict resolution initiatives in e.g. the Balkans, Maghreb.

Education:

• University of Oxford, UK (BA 1984)
• Post-Graduate Certificate of Education (PGSE), St. Martin's College, Lancaster, UK

Languages: English, French, Swedish - fluent; German, Polish - working

Publications:

• Author, Poland: The Rough Guide (Penguin, 7th Ed 2009)
• Founding Editor, New Routes journal (LPI, 1996-)
• Editor, After The Revolutions: Democracy in Central-Eastern Europe (LPI, Uppsala 1996)
• Editor, Building The Peace: Experiences of Collaborative Peace-building in Somalia 1993-1996 (LPI Uppsala 1997)
• Editor, Healing A Nation’s Wounds: Reconciliation On The Road To Democracy (LPI Uppsala 1998)

Other members of the staff