Catherine O’Rourke is a Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and International Law at the Transitional Justice Institute. Catherine's research interests covers engagement by women’s movements with transitional justice processes, the gendered outcomes of transitional justice processes and gender and reparations.
Sara Hellmüller is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Montreal, senior researcher at swisspeace and lecturer at the University of Basel. She specialises in peace and conflict studies, with a particular focus on mediation, local and international peacebuilding, and the analysis of armed conflicts.
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Andy Carl is an experienced peacebuilding practitioner with a career of leadership in the NGO sector. Andy currently works as an independent writer and advisor to individuals, groups and organisations engaged in working on peace, justice and social change processes. He helped establish International Alert in 1989 and in 1994 he co-founded Conciliation Resources where he was Executive Director for 22 years.
John Paul Lederach is Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Senior Fellow at Humanity United.
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This month, Nigerians across the country headed to the polls to vote in Presidential and regional elections. In a period of heightened tensions, young people in northeast Nigeria worked to ensure ballots and not bullets dominated the election process.
Bebhinn McKinley is currently a Good Relations Manager for Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. Previous positions have included working with the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister on the Together: Building a United Community Strategy, which was part of the Executive’s commitment to improving community relations and continuing the journey towards a more united and shared society. She has also worked in Northern Ireland for Non-Governmental Organisations, Community Relations Council, Rural Community Network and Women into Politics and as volunteer for a grassroots orga
A crucial vote in the House of Lords last week saw greater legal protection for aid workers who respond to humanitarian crises, but failed to acknowledge the important need to protect peacebuilders in their work.
