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 […]
Heribert Adam
Heribert Adam (born 1936) is professor emeritus of political sociology at Simon Fraser University, specialising in human rights, comparative racisms, peace studies, Southern Africa, and ethnic conflict. Originally from Frankfurt, Germany, he is a former president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Ethnic, Minority and Race Relations. Adam is noted for his work […]
Angela McIntyre
Angela McIntyre has been a development practitioner, researcher and activist in sub-Saharan Africa since 1993, with truly multi-disciplinary experience that includes post-conflict humanitarian work, peace and security, children’s rights, environment and conservation, public health and rural development. In trying to make sense of it all, Angela has a earned a BA in Anthropology (Winnipeg), a […]
Elias Opongo

Elias Opongo is the director of the Centre for Research, Training and Publication (CRTPT) at Hekima University College, Nairobi. He is a peace practitioner and conflict analyst, and teaches and researches on ethics of war and peacebuilding, statebuilding and democracy, transitional justice and conflict resolution. He holds a PhD in Peace Studies from University of […]