Azza Karam
Azza Karam is the Senior Advisor on Culture at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). She coordinates Fund-wide global activities on Culture and Religion. She has also served as Senior Policy and Programme Advisor at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Special Advisor on the Muslim World and Director of the Women’s Programmes at the World Conference […]
Natalia Zakharova
Nathalie Lasslop
Nathalie Lasslop is Fundraising Deputy Head at the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
George Ngwane
George Ngwane is the Executive Director of AFRICAphonie, a pan-African organisation focused on enhancing democracy and economic development, based in Cameroon.
Paulo Nuno Vicente
Paulo Nuno Vicente is a PhD Fellow in Online Journalism at the New University.
Marvin Close
Marvin Close is a scriptwriter in the United Kingdom.
Chuck Korr
Chuck Korr is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and is Visiting Research Professor in the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Monfort University. He continues to teach a graduate seminar in comparative history of sport and has lectured in the FIFA MA program since its […]
Natasja Rupesinghe

Natasja Rupesinghe is a PhD Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in the Peace, Conflict and Development Research Group. She is also a DPhil candidate in international relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Natasja Rupesinghe’s PhD project examines jihadist insurgent mobilisation in the Sahel […]
Ashraf Swelam

Ashraf Swelam is Director General of the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA) and the founder of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development. He is a former President of the International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centers and the African Peace Support Trainers Association. He is also a former Co-Chairman of the Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and […]
Hendrik W. van der Merwe
Professor Hendrik W. (H.W.) van der Merwe was a South African academic, a Quaker, and a pioneer of conflict resolution. He founded the Abe Bailey Institute for Inter-Racial Studies (now the Centre for Intergroup Studies) at the University of Cape Town in 1968. He was born on 24 June 1929 in rural South Africa, about 130 […]