Our board

Mark Bradbury (Chair)

Barney Afako

Barney Afako is a Ugandan lawyer and expert on transitional justice who has worked in the fields of human rights and criminal justice in Uganda, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. He works as a consultant on peace talks for civil society, the Ugandan Amnesty Commission and the government. He is one of the leading legal analysts of the International Criminal Court investigation in northern Uganda. Barney is also a part-time Immigration Judge in the United Kingdom.

Christine Bell

Christine Bell is Director of the Transitional Justice Institute, and Professor of Public International Law, at University of Ulster. She read law and qualified as a Barrister and Attorney-at-law. From 1997-9 she was Director of the Centre for International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Queen's University of Belfast. She has been active in non-governmental organizations, and was chairperson of the Committee on the Administration of Justice from 1995-7 and a founder member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission established under the terms of the Belfast Agreement. In 1999 she was a member of the European Commission's Committee of Experts on Fundamental Rights. Her publications include Peace Agreements and Human Rights, and Negotiating Justice? Human Rights and Peace Agreements published by the International Council on Human Rights Policy. She has taken part in various peace negotiations discussions, giving constitutional law and human rights law advice, and also in training for diplomats, mediators and lawyers.

Andy Carl

Andy is the co-founder and Executive Director of Conciliation Resources (CR) and is also a member of its board. This arrangement, agreed with the UK Charity Commission, is reviewed annually by the board. Unusual for a British charity, it is intended to recognize the principle of staff ownership of CR and the valuable contribution Andy can make to its governance. Read Andy's biography on the staff pages.

Bob Cooke (Honorary Treasurer)

Bob Cooke is a chartered accountant who worked with Arthur Young (now Ernst and Young) in London. He then worked for two years in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Zambia for Coopers and Lybrand, and later joined British Alcan Aluminium as a financial analyst. Leaving industry, he joined the agency Concern as national accountant based in Mozambique for four years. Formerly finance manager of the Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland and the Living Earth Foundation, Bob is now Head of Finance at The Gaia Foundation and Gingerbread. He also acts a consultant to various charities and is the accountant for the Green Belt Movement Foundation, the foundation for the 2005 Nobel peace prize-winner.

Mark Hoffman

Mark Hoffman is lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he teaches conflict analysis and resolution. He has published on third-party mediation, humanitarian intervention and conflict resolution in the post-Cold War world. As head of the LSE's Conflict Analysis and Development Unit (CADU) he has wide practical experience as a trainer and facilitator with the United Nations, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and other international organizations, and has worked in Moldova, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Philippines and elsewhere.

Nev Jefferies

Nev Jefferies is Head of Refugee Services/International Tracing and Message Services at the British Red Cross and formerly head of its International Welfare Services. Nev previously worked on humanitarian assistance and development programmes in Asia, East Africa and Former Soviet Union and trained in development studies and voluntary sector management.

Mischa Mills

Mischa Mills trained in international relations. She was formerly a media adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary-General and is now working freelance. Mischa previously worked with UNESCO's Culture of Peace programme in Paris, with International Alert, a UK-based conflict resolution NGO, and was coordinator of the London Centre of International Relations of the University of Kent. She has extensive international experience and contacts in the fields of politics and diplomacy, business, and media.

Liz Philipson

Liz Philipson is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science; national chairperson for War on Want; and has worked with CR on projects in Sri Lanka and Nepal. From 1993-97 she worked as South Asia Programme Manager at International Alert and directed several conflict resolution initiatives within Sri Lanka. Before this, she was a researcher in the UK House of Commons and office manager for Jeremy Corbyn MP. Liz has held many positions in the British Labour Party and trade union movement. Her current activities, apart from academic research and teaching, are freelance conflict analysis assignments, interactive training in conflict transformation, and dialogue facilitation. In 2002 she was part of the EC Conflict Prevention Assessment Mission in Nepal. She has an MSc in Development Studies from South Bank University in London.

Roy Reeve

Ambassador Reeve joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1966 after graduating from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a degree in Soviet Government and Politics and a M.Sc. in International Economics. During his career with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Roy had two tours of duty in the British Embassy in Moscow (1968-71 and 1978-81). He was a member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE, now OSCE) Preparatory Talks in Dippoli and participated throughout the Geneva negotiations, which culminated in the signature of the CSCE Final Act in 1975. He also participated in the CSCE Review Conferences in Belgrade and Madrid. Other postings included: Head of Political Affairs in Northern Ireland (1983- 85); Deputy Consul General, Johannesburg (1985-88); Head of Commercial Management Department, FCO (1988-91) and Consul General, Sydney (1991-95). Until his early retirement from the Diplomatic Service in May 1999, Roy was Ambassador to Ukraine. From 1999 to 2003 Roy headed the OSCE Office in Yerevan before becoming Head of the OSCE Mission to Georgia until 2007.

Bea Stolte

Bea Stolte was formerly Coordinator of Cooperation with, and assistance to, partners in North-East Africa at the Emergency Department of ACT in The Netherlands. She is now working freelance and has been a Board member of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention since 1998.

Vesna Terselic

Vesna Terselic is Director of Documenta - Center for Dealing with the Past, Zagreb. She formerly was Director of the Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb and coordinator of Antiwar Campaign Croatia and a lecturer in peace and women's studies. Her activist work focuses on linking peacebuilding and dealing with the past. She has wide practical experience as a trainer and facilitator in conflict situations, mostly in post-Yugoslav countries. Vesna has been a Nobel Prize nominee (1997) and Right Livelihood Award Laureate (1998) and her publications include handbooks on facilitation and mediation.

Teresa Whitfield

Teresa Whitfield joined the Social Science Research Council in 2005 as Director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF). From 1995-2000 she worked in the UN’s Department of Political Affairs. She has also worked as a consultant with the Ford Foundation and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and has a long association with CPPF, serving as regional advisor on Latin America from 2001-2003 and as acting director from 2001-2002. Her books include the recently published Friends Indeed: the United Nations, Groups of Friends and the Resolution of Conflict and she has also published on peace processes in Central America and Colombia. Teresa holds degrees in Latin American Studies and English Literature and was a journalist and filmmaker in her early career.

Sue Williams

Sue Williams is an independent consultant, assisting and training in conflict analysis, management, and prevention of escalation and in programme design, strategic reviews and evaluation of projects. She has worked in various countries including Kenya, Uganda, Senegal, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Georgia, Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Côte d’Ivoire and Northern Ireland. She was Special Consultant to Collaborative for Development Action and between 1998 and 2000 she was Director of Policy and Evaluation Unit, INCORE, at the University of Ulster/United Nations University. Previously she worked for Responding to Conflict and Quaker Peace and Service. Sue has acted as special consultant on a broad variety of conflict issues to groups in Guatemala, Cambodia, Kenya, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. She has published a number of books on working with conflict and has a BA and MA from Brown University in French and politics.

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