GEN International Trustee
GEN Board of Trustees
Josephine Schwab is a futures strategist working at the intersection of diplomacy, community-led development, and long-term resilience. She is an incoming Senior Research Fellow with the European Institute of Policy Research and Human Rights, a community builder for pan-European project Volt Europa, letter writer for WILPF Scotland, and a reviewer for the Journal of Deliberative Democracy.
Her work builds on more than a decade of involvement in the ecovillage movement, where she has supported research, education, governance, and humanitarian projects, and is now based near the Findhorn ecovillage in Scotland.
Josephine is pursuing a Master’s in Global Diplomacy, alongside development in UN peacekeeping and "Macroeconomics for a Sustainable Planet". She brings a futures perspective to global dialogues on conflict transformation, reconciliation, and resilience, while rooted in grassroots approaches to peacebuilding and regenerative development.
Primary interests: Futures thinking, peacebuilding, ecovillage development, conflict transformation, participatory governance, European security.
