Tobias Lang
Director
Tobias Lang is Director of the ACP. He studied political science in Vienna and is an expert on religious minorities in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. His research also focuses on Austria's foreign policy in the Middle East. As a member of staff in several government offices and Executive Director of the majority faction in the Burgenland state parliament, he gained organisational and management experience at the interface between politics and administration.
Wolfgang Weilharter
Wolfgang Weilharter is the Project Manager for the project "Communal Peace and Conflict Work in Burgenland". His focus is on the implementation of mediation and dialogue processes on the communal level, in the areas of communal politics, housing and neighbourhoods and local coexistence of people of different origins.
Mercedes Corrales
Mercedes Corrales is the Event Support Officer and Junior Project Manager working in the Conflict Resolution Programme. She previously completed a two-year traineeship at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, following her graduation from the Vienna School of International Studies.
Bernadette Holzer
Head of International Conference Management
Bernadette Holzer brings extensive expertise in managing international projects and programs across human rights, education, and sustainable peace. At ACP, she oversees international conference management, including the Austrian Forum for Peace 2025. Additionally, she serves as Deputy Director of WUS Austria, focusing on strategic leadership and advancing the right to education. Her professional experience encompasses academic teaching, project management, and research, with a strong emphasis on human rights, conflict transformation, capacity development, and building global partnerships.
Alba Losert
Alba Losert is the Research Assistant of the ACP's university capacity building project. She worked in capacity building projects for education in Addis Ababa, Ramallah and Accra. Her research focuses on epistemic violence and knowledge production. She studied Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies.
Monika Psenner
Head of Capacity Development
Monika Psenner serves as the Head of Capacity Development at ACP, where she provides strategic and operational oversight of the organization's comprehensive training portfolio. Committed to fostering sustainable peace, Monika actively integrates Environmental Peacebuilding principles into ACP's multifaceted endeavours and advocates for the adoption of the Climate, Environment, Peace, and Security Nexus in both European and global initiatives. She is serving as the ESDC Climate Security configuration’s first chairperson. Monika's academic background encompasses international affairs as well as crisis and contingency management. Bolstered by her professional roots in development cooperation and humanitarian aid, she brings a wealth of experience in intercultural network collaboration, leadership, organizational development, project management, and training to her work.
Nathan Coyle
Nathan Coyle is the Senior Project Manager for Peace Tech, he is responsible for all our Peace Tech related activities and digital development. Nathan has partnered with governments across the globe to enhance their digital outreach efforts. He is a Fellow at The Royal Society of Arts in his native Britain and a writer, contributing to publications such as The Guardian. On his publication 'Open Data for Everybody: Using Open Data for Social Good' Nathan did a TEDx talk.
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Ursula Gamauf-Eberhardt
Ursula Gamauf-Eberhardt is Senior Program Manager for Peace Education and course director of the Summer Academy on OSCE. In addition, she is course director of the Master's Program "Peace & Life Skills Pedagogy" (ACP/PH) and curator of the exhibition "Schlaining & Frieden" in the Peace Castle. She is a member of the UNESCO Advisory Board on Transformative Education. Her thematic focus is on peace education (incl. Global Citizenship education), and peacebuilding.
Susanne J. Györög
Susanne J. Györög is the Senior Project Manager of the training section of the cooperation programme with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence and is in charge of managing the the specialisation courses in the framework of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC). She brings 30 years of experience to the ACP, including some 20 years of field experience in humanitarian aid, post-conflict recovery, security sector reform in complex emergencies as well as peace missions with additional 10 years experience in development and conduct of specialised trainings in the framework of UN and EU peace missions.
Astrid Holzinger
Astrid Holzinger is the Senior Project Manager for the International Civilian Peacebuilding Training Program at the ACP, where she also works on peace tech, conflict resolution, and environmental peacebuilding projects and initiatives. She has many years of work experience with the United Nations, the OSCE, the EU and the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defence. Crisis and Conflict Management, Peacekeeping, Environmental Peacebuilding, the women, peace and security agenda, and international security are among her main areas of expertise. She holds a Master's degree in International Relations from the University of Bristol.
Sophia Stanger
Sophia Stanger is Acting Project Manager and in charge of the project "Capacity Development for Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa". She is also responsible for the Environmental Peacebuilding sector. Sophia Stanger has many years of experience in NGO work, project management and team leadership, for example in the fields of education, humanitarian advocacy and volunteer missions. Her expertise also lies in the intersection of environment/climate and conflict resolution approaches. Sophia Stanger is also a qualified trainer and has completed a mediation training.
Yerivan Pruscha
Yerivan Pruscha is the Project Officer for the International Civilian Peacebuilding Training Program (IPT). In this position she supports various trainings for civilian experts in peace building as well as the organization of events of the ACP in Vienna. She previously worked for AST (Contact Point for people who gained professional qualifications abroad) at the Counselling Centre for Migrants where she was managed for processes of nostrification, administration and migration related topics as well as events. She is a graduate of City, University of London, with a M.A. in International Politics and Human Rights and a graduate from FH Campus Vienna, with a M.A. in Social Economy and Social Work.
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Augustin Nicolescou
Augustin Nicolescou serves as co-director of the Herbert C Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation, a partner of the ACP. He also contributes to the ACP's research and training activities, with thematic expertise in conflict transformation, dialogue processes, the HDP Nexus, conflict sensitivity and Do-No-Harm and geographic experience in Israel, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus.