Irene Limo works with the United Nations Development Programme South Sudan within the Peace and Community Cohesion Project, where she supports community dialogues and civil society organisations working on the peace and development nexus in South Sudan. Until recently, Irene …
Bebhinn McKinley is a Good Relations, Peace and Reconciliation Practitioner. Bebhinn currently works within local government in Northern Ireland after having previously held posts at an operational and policy level in a number of NGO's, and the Office of the …
Elder Amb. Justina Mike Ngwobia has worked with rural, and urban communities in Northern Nigeria through empowering women, girls and young people, and building their capacities in dialogue, peace, security and governance issues. Through her organisation Justice, Peace and Reconciliation …
Visaka Dharmadasa is the founder and Chair of Association of War Affected Women and Parents of Servicemen Missing in Action. In struggling to end the civil war in Sri Lanka, she brokered the ceasefire as well as brought women across …
Emine Çolak has worked in mediation, negotiation and facilitation for over 20 years, she has played important roles at both civil society level and in managing processes for constitutional structures to resolve division. Her work in human rights seeks to …
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 …
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, …
