About the Author

Claude-Hélène Mayer is an ethnologist (M.A.), systemic consultant, mediator and officially acknowledged trainer for mediation (BM). She has worked at the Institute for Intercultural Practise & Conflict Management (IIPC) for a few years, specializing in intercultural mediation and systemic consulting. She is the author of several reference books and earned her Ph.D. at the Institute for

Ethnology in Göttingen in the interdisciplinary field of intercultural value-, identity-, and conflict research. Her region-specific expertise relates mostly to Southern Africa, especially the Republic of South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya.