Incentives, sanctions and conditionality

Alex de Waal has worked as a programme director at the Social Science Research Council. He has been a director of Justice Africa in London and served as an advisor to the African Union mediation team in Abuja.

Alvaro de Soto’s appointments, during a 25-year career with the UN, have included Secretary-General’s Personal Representative for the Central American Peace Process, Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus, and Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.

Anthony Regan, a constitutional lawyer and Fellow at the Australian National University, has been an adviser in several peace processes and post-conflict constitution-making processes, including Uganda, East Timor and Nagaland. He also advised the PNG government on constitutional matters and Bougainville on negotiations with the national government.

Dr. Archil Gegeshidze is a Senior Fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies and has a diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Brian Smith is an international development consultant. From 2003 to 2006 he was based in Sri Lanka, collaborating with numerous stakeholders to identify ways to support the struggling peace process.

Celia McKeon is Conciliation Resources’ Director of Policy, Communications and Comparative Learning.

David Mitchell is an associate of INCORE (International Conflict Research), based at the University of Ulster. His recently completed doctorate examined party politics during the implementation of the Belfast Agreement.

Harim Peiris served as an advisor to the President of Sri Lanka (2001-05), as a member of the Government’s negotiation team with the LTTE after the tsunami and as Director General for Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconciliation in the conflict-affected North and East. He is currently attached to the Council for Public Policy in Colombo.

Ambassador Jan Eliasson, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Darfur since December 2006 and formerly President of the UN General Assembly, was interviewed for Accord by Mikael Eriksson (European University Institute) in August 2007.

Jonathan joined Conciliation Resources in December 1997 and developed the Caucasus programme. In September 2008 he became Director of Programmes overseeing all Conciliation Resources’ regional programmes.

Previously he was deputy director of the Foundation on Inter-Ethnic Relations in The Hague, working with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Before that he worked for International Alert and the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

He has been a board member of the DFID / CAF Partnerships in the Non-Profit Sector Programme for Russia; acted as a consultant to United Nations Volunteers, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, the Berghof Foundation and taught at the London School of Economics. Jonathan has degrees from the universities of Bristol, London and Oxford. Languages other than English: Russian.

Liana Kvarchelia is a community facilitator in Abkhazia. She has previously worked with the Centre for Humanitarian Programmes, a Sukhum-based NGO working on projects related to conflict resolution, and has extensive experience of participation in meetings with NGO representatives from Georgia.

Mareike Schomerus is a fellow at the London School of Economics' Development Studies Institute (DESTIN). She works on violent conflict, peacebuilding and human security and has written extensively on war and peace in Uganda and Sudan. Prior to and during the Juba talks, she conducted fieldwork with the Lord’s Resistance Army. Her research also includes the impact of Uganda’s conflict on Sudanese civilians.

Michael Ancram is a Member of Parliament in the UK whose former appointments include serving as Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office and as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. He is chairman of the Global Strategy Forum.

Mike McGovern is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. From 2004-2006 he worked as the West Africa Project Director of the International Crisis Group.

Dr Nathalie Tocci is a Senior Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome.

Rex Brynen is Professor of Political Science at McGill University, Canada. He has served as a member of the policy staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and as a consultant to the Canadian International Development Agency, the World Bank, the United Nations and others. 

Roelf Meyer was the National Party government’s chief negotiator during the transition from apartheid. After 1994 he continued in the portfolio of Constitutional Affairs in the Cabinet of President Nelson Mandela. He is now a business person and a consultant on peace processes. This interview was conducted in November 2007.

Sunil Bastian is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Suthaharan Nadarajah is a doctoral candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. This article was produced in partnership with the Centre for Just Peace and Democracy.

Teresa Whitfield is a Senior Advisor and Fellow at Center on International Cooperation at New York University and Senior Adviser to the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, responsible for liaison with the United Nations.

Teresa has published widely on the dynamics of internal conflict, peacemaking and United Nations peace operations. In March 2010 she was awarded a grant by the United States Institute of Peace to research and write a book examining efforts to end the Basque conflict in Spain.

Previously Teresa was Director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum. She has also worked as an official within the UN’s Department of Political Affairs.