Elisa Tarnaala
Elisa Tarnaala is Adviser at Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) – The Martti Ahtisaari Centre, a Finnish independent non-profit organisation funded by the Nobel peace prize laureate and ex-president of Finland Martti Ahtisaari. At CMI Dr. Tarnaala’s current work focuses on peace and transitional processes in West and Central Africa as well as Colombia in South […]
Geoff Harris
Geoff Harris is a Professor in the Peacebuilding Programme at Durban University of Technology. His current research interests include the relationships between economic inequality, ethnicity and violence and the use of action research as a peacebuilding tool.
Dumisani Ngwenya
Dumisani Ngwenya is a doctoral graduate from the Peacebuilding Programme at Durban University of Technology. His research was supported by the Canon Collins Educational Trust. He is Director of Grace to Heal in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, a church-based NGO dedicated to peacebuilding, reconciliation and healing.
Everisto Benyera
Dr Everisto Benyera is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Stephanie de Freitas
Stephanie was the Researcher in the Executive Directors Office where she was responsible for assisting ACCORD’s Executive Director by sourcing, analysing and drafting material for various events, presentations, news briefs and editorials. In addition, Stephanie ran the social media accounts and assisted with the maintenance and upkeep of the ACCORD website. Previously, Stephanie worked as […]
James Bromley
James MH Bromley is an intern in ACCORD’s Peacekeeping Unit.
João Gomes Porto
João Gomes Porto (PhD) is head of the African Security Analysis Programme at the Institute for Security Studies.
Erin McCandless
Erin McCandless is seasoned academic and policy advisor with three decades experienceacross 25 countries working to advance inclusive and transformative political settlements andsustainable peace, the peace-development, humanitarian (and now climate) nexus, the GlobalSouth and movements to established a more principled world order, and empowered civilsocieties in crisis, conflict, and fragile contexts. She currently serves as […]
Maged Abdelaziz
Maged A. Abdelaziz currently serves as United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Africa at the level of Under-Secretary-General. He was an Egyptian diplomat who had been Egypt’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations since January 2005.
Candice Moore
Candice Moore holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a cum laude BA Honours degree from the Rand Afrikaans University. Her research focuses on the foreign policies of emerging states, mainly South Africa and Brazil, as well as the development of IR […]