Claudia Maffettone
Track II Mediation Program Manager, Search for Common Ground
Summer Schools
Claudia Maffettone is the Track II Mediation Program Manager at Search for Common Ground. She is a conflict resolution practitioner and a certified mediator, trained at the New York Peace Institute, Harvard Law School, and the New York City Bar among others. As a mediator for the New York Peace Institute, she conducted numerous community, commercial, divorce, custody/visitation, criminal and juvenile delinquency mediations. Previously, Claudia worked at Soliya, pioneering organization in the field of virtual exchange and intercultural dialogue, advancing partnerships with educational institutions, NGOs and CSOs in the Middle East- North Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. She worked with numerous organizations in the UN System, the European Union, and the Council of Europe. In 2010, she launched a consulting company, LuX, to support various institutions in project planning and implementation. Claudia holds a BA in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, in Italy, and won the Rotary Peace Fellowship for a MA Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, UK.