Peace education
Véronique delivering a session on ethics for the Manchester Leadership Programme, The University of Manchester.
Véronique is available for conflict resolution skills training, peer mediation training for primary school children, conflict coaching for secondary young people, staff training in mediation skills and racial justice workshops. She is also available as a professional workplace mediator. For enquiries, please email her or contact CRESST.
Véronique taught ethics in global politics for 25 years at the University of Manchester. She won a number of teaching prizes along the way including: The University of Manchester Faculty of Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award 2021 for her teaching online during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Faculty of Humanities Students’ Outstanding Teaching Award for the School of Social Sciences 2019, The University of Manchester Teaching Excellence Award 2012 and the Bernard Crick Main Prize for Outstanding Teaching by the Political Studies Association in 2006.
Having spent her academic career seeking to understand violent processes of dehumanisation, Véronique has now turned her practical skills to facilitating processes of re-humanisation through mediation training and restorative approaches for young people and educators. She is an ILM accredited professional workplace mediator trained by CMP.
Véronique currently works with primary and secondary staff, children and young people as a freelance trainer for CRESST. CRESST is a member of the Peace Education Network. Véronique is also a member of the Racial Justice Group for East Cheshire Quakers and provides racial justice workshops.