Ricardo Mendoza lives in Bogotá, Colombia. He is an Adviser for CIASE on reconciliation and peacebuilding, and has over 20 years experience working on international peace and armed conflict. He studied mediation at the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Reconciliation.
Duncan Morrow is lecturer in Politics and Director of Community Engagement at Ulster University in Northern Ireland. Following many years as an academic and activist, he was Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council from 2002–12. In 1998, he was appointed as a Sentence Review Commissioner responsible for the early release of prisoners following the Belfast Agreement. He currently advises the Scottish Government on tackling Sectarianism and Hate Crime.
Marina Elbakidze is Project Coordinator at the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development and coordinator of the ‘Memory Project’ in Tbilisi. She is a lecturer in psychology at the Department of Organisational Psychology, Tbilisi State University. Since 1997 she has participated in a range of peacebuilding activities and has played a key role in Georgian-Abkhaz dialogue processes, including in close partnership with Conciliation Resources.
David Bloomfield has worked in the field of conflict and peacebuilding for over 35 years as a trainer, practitioner, policy adviser, analyst, and consultant. He specialises in the relationship between reconciliation processes, dealing with the past and transitional justice, and currently advises governments, multilateral agencies and international non-governmental organisations around the world. He has worked in many contexts, including Iraq, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Kosovo and Colombia. David was editor of the IDEA publication, Reconciliation after violent conflict: A handbook (2003).
Graeme Simpson is Director of Interpeace USA and the Lead Author of The Missing Peace, a global study on Youth, Peace and Security mandated by the UN Security Council under UN Security Council Resolution 2250.
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Mark Salter has 25 years of experience in democracy, conflict, reconciliation and diversity management including with international NGOs, research institutes and intergovernmental organisations. From 2000 to 2010 he was a senior staff member of International IDEA, an intergovernmental organisation supporting democratic consolidation around the world. During that time he led the institute’s global work on reconciliation based on its Reconciliation after violent conflict: A handbook (2003). Since 2010 he has been an independent consultant.
Since March 2015, Conciliation Resources and national civil society partners have been implementing a two year project aimed at understanding, mitigating and resolving tensions arising from, or exacerbated by, the Ebola crisis.
The project focuses on 18 remote border districts in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire where community-based initiatives, called District Platforms for Dialogue (DPDs), are facilitating and mediating dialogue in their respective communities.
The Karabakh Contact Group (KCG) is a format where Armenian and Azerbaijani activists and experts work collaboratively on the challenges facing the Nagorny Karabakh (NK) peace process, and come up with new ideas that are put to policymakers.
The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia insurgents are about to reach a comprehensive peace agreement. This report describes a number of innovations and other developments leading up to this widely predicted agreement that might be relevant to peace processes elsewhere.
Dr Emma Leslie, an associate of the Philippines programme, has been awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The award was given for Dr Leslie’s work on peacebuilding and mediation – particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
