Nina Koevoets

Nina Koevoets

Affiliations
Peace Power

Nina Koevoets has been a trainer in peacebuilding and nonviolence since 2015. She’s the author of The Peace Compass (2024), a children’s book (2023), and co-author of a Study Guide on nonviolence (2019). She has a bachelor in psychology (major) and anthropology (minor) and two master degrees: Conflict Resolution and Governance and Global Studies.
Her training in conflict resolution is extensive, including a 10 week long training programme in Nonviolence in the USA, several Erasmus+ projects about this topic, one that she co-organised during an internships at the United Network of Young Peacebuilders. She did other internships at Save the Children (Netherlands, 2007), Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy (Israel-Palestine, 2009), and a European Voluntary Service in Israel- Palestine with the Holy Land Trust (2010-11), and in India at the Center for Conflict Resolution and Human Security (2010). Nina has been a workshop facilitator for Oikos, a Dutch NGO that informed people about development aid issues, and Critical Mass, working with creative ways to discuss conflict, identity and related topics. A few additional courses she has done are: Training for Trainers, Theater of the Oppressed training for facilitators, Dialogue for Peaceful Change training, several Nonviolent Communication trainings (short+long term) and several Work that Reconnects workshops. She was born in The Netherlands and lives in Greece with her husband and daughter.

"I grew up as an atheist, but began to wonder if there wasn't "something more" as a teenager and first explored Buddhism, reading books about the philosophy and from the Dalai Lama. Later I've also felt inspired by Thich Nhat Han (the founder of Mindfulness). I've never adopted a religion, but did develop respect for the message of Jesus and a lot of what the Baha'i believe in, as well as different meditation practices from India."  - Nina Koevoets