Leonardo Medina
Leonardo Medina is an environmental peacebuilding specialist currently completing his PhD under the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research.
Gracsious Maviza
Gracsious Maviza is a gender, migration and climate security scientist at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, one of the research institutes at CGIAR.
Emma Ng’ang’a
Emma Ng’ang’a is a Gender and Protection practitioner and the 1st former African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace – East Africa
Paul D. Williams
Paul D. Williams is Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, and Director of the MA program in Security Policy Studies. Prior to moving to the Elliott School in 2006, Dr Williams was a faculty member at the University of Birmingham and the University of Warwick in the UK. […]
Jabu Olga Dimba
Jabu Olga Dimba is the General Office Cleaner at ACCORD. She has progressed from providing temporary assistance to being appointed in a full-time position.
Frederic Gateretse-Ngoga
Ambassador Frederic Gateretse-Ngoga, Is the focal point for partnerships, the AU Border Program and regional security mechanisms in the office of the Commissioner for Political Affairs and Peace and Security of the African Union Commission. He served previously under the old AU Commission structure as the Head of the Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Division […]
Michlene Mongae
Michlene Mongae is a researcher and MA candidate in Military Strategy at the University of Stellenbosch. Through her research, she aspires to provide innovative solutions to Africa’s peace and stability problems. She has over five years work experience in the parliamentary political cycle in policy formulation and development, oversight, as well as public and international […]
Dr. Siobhan O’Neil
Dr Siobhan O’Neil is Project Lead of the Managing Exits from Armed Conflict initiative. Prior to joining UNIDIR, Dr O’Neil was Project Lead for UNU’s Children and Extreme Violence project and Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Project Manager. She was also a consultant at the UN Mine Action Service (UNAMS), providing strategic guidance and programme support […]
Ako Muto
Ako Muto is Executive Senior Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.
Mariana Llorens Zabala
Mariana is a Junior Research Fellow at NUPI and works on the Training for Peace Programme, in the Research group on peace, conflict and development. Mariana earned a master’s degree in Human Rights Law in 2018 with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, focusing on the Law of Armed Conflict and ad-hoc legal […]