Cate Buchanan currently works as the Conflict Adviser for the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund Myanmar, with UNFPA Myanmar on conflict-related sexual violence and for the UN Office of the Special Envoy for the Secretary-General on Yemen as a Senior …
Meredith Preston McGhie has devoted more than 20 years to addressing conflict and instability in Africa and Asia in some of the most troubled situations. From working with the Naga in Northeast India and indigenous communities on the Thai-Myanmar border, …
Florence Nasamaza has worked with traditional, religious and community leaders since 2015 to promote critical thinking among communities about the threat of violent extremism, and strengthen local understanding of radicalisation in ungoverned spaces and border areas in the Great Lakes …
Patricia Ndhlovu is an experienced leader, mediator, counsellor, facilitator, policy analyst, communicator, negotiator and gender expert, with over 15 years of accumulated practical experience in Zambia. Key focus areas of expertise include electoral conflict mediation and facilitation, prevention of gender-based …
Etong Fanny Bessem, Epse Ako-Egbe is a trained Civil Society Manager, holder of Bsc Economics, MBA degree, social enterprise/business consultant, mentor and coach with over seven years experience peacebuilding, mediation and community development. Fanny is also a humanitarian practitioner and …
Salma Yusuf is a peace practitioner and mediator from Sri Lanka. She specialises in policy and process development, strategic advocacy, and thought-leadership. She has previously worked as a public official in Government, a university lecturer and researcher, a journalist, and …
Magda Zenon is a peace and human rights activist who brings with her a perspective formed within the contexts of having lived in apartheid South Africa, Greece, and now Cyprus. She is an active member of the local civil society …
Esther Omam is the Executive Director of Reach Out Cameroon. She has been at the forefront of mediation and development issues in the South West Region with Reach Out Cameroon since 2000. Esther has created the movement called South West/North …
Irene Limo works with the United Nations Development Programme South Sudan within the Peace and Community Cohesion Project, where she supports community dialogues and civil society organisations working on the peace and development nexus in South Sudan. Until recently, Irene …
Visaka Dharmadasa is the founder and Chair of Association of War Affected Women and Parents of Servicemen Missing in Action. In struggling to end the civil war in Sri Lanka, she brokered the ceasefire as well as brought women across …
Lantana Bako Abdullahi is the National Co-Coordinator of the Nigerian Women Mediators Network and leads a local women-focused organisation called Women for Positive Peacebuilding Initiative. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Women Mediators Across the Commonwealth …
Florence Swamy, Executive Director of the Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding, works in Restorative Justice, Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership and Community Peacebuilding. Programmatic work in these thematic areas provide skills, capacity, and support to local communities (and other stakeholders including Government) so …
