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 …
Sumona DasGupta has worked in the area of women, peace and security as a scholar-practitioner for 20 years, facilitating dialogues across conflict fault-lines in Indian Kashmir, evaluating peace interventions with youth, education, women, cross border trade and working with women …
Atia Anwer Zoon is currently working as Director of KIIR Women Wing where her work focuses on capacity building and skill development of women on Peacebuilding, Leadership and Mediation. KIIR Women Wing has been established as a subsidiary by Kashmir …
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 …
Mossarat Qadeem is co-founder of PAIMAN Alumni Trust, a pioneer organisation in preventing/countering violent extremism (P/CVE) in Pakistan. She has a decade of experience in restorative practices (community building, problem solving, harm reducing circles), customised training for organisations, including conflict …
Elizabeth Solomon is an Industrial Court Judge and an experienced mediator in a wide variety of political, post-conflict and commercial contexts around the world. She is a Director of the Mediation Board of Trinidad & Tobago, former Executive Director of …
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini MBE has 25 years experience as a peace strategist working globally on conflicts and violent extremism. In 2000 she was a civil society leader and drafter of UNSC Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. She spearheads …
Sabrina Mowlah-Baksh holds a MSc in Gender and Development Studies and has worked with women and communities for over 30 years. Her experience in mediation spans a broad spectrum and she has mediated at the community level, in local government …
Rose Pihei has been working to empower women since 2003, and has been actively engaged in peacebuilding work since 2006, when she pioneered the umbrella women's organisation now formally known as the Bougainville Women's Federation. In 2010 Rose was elected …
Hannah Forster is the Executive Director of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS), a pan-African human rights NGO based in Banjul, The Gambia.
Hannah is a human rights, governance, gender and conflict transformation expert and has …
Betty Bigombe is an internationally recognised, award-winning expert in conflict resolution, armed conflict mediation, and post-conflict peacemaking and rehabilitation. Her areas of expertise include: peacebuilding, mediator, negotiator and trainer of senior mediators, in-person mediation, reconciling fractured communities involving grassroots women, …
Miriam Labanue serves as a mediation and peacebuilding trainer in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Region. She focuses on building bridges and engaging with emerging leaders and youths in remote rural areas. She also undertakes counselling and peer …
