Peace News Expert Network

Abdulrazaq O Hamzat is Executive Director of Foundation for Peace Professionals (FPP), producer of the Nigeria Peace Index (NPI).

Alejandra Solarte has vast experience in formulation, implementation, execution and monitoring of plans, programs for social projects. She has worked with state entities, international cooperation, NGOs and civil society organizations. She has centered her work in facilitating organizational processes with methodologies of community participation and social dialogue. She has a Sociology degree from Universidad de Nariño. She also holds a masters degree in Sciences in Rural Sociology from Universidad Autónoma Chapingo in Mexico. She has always been interested in learning the best way to build peace by generating autonomy within communities.

Alexandre Marc is the Chief Technical Specialist in the World Bank’s Fragility, Conflict and Violence thematic group.

Ami Carpenter is an Associate Professor at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego.

Dr Andrea Warnecke is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for History and International
Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her principal areas of expertise include
international governmental and non-governmental organizations, peacebuilding,
humanitarianism, and crisis governance with a particular focus on institutional knowledge
practices and legitimacy. Andrea’s research is informed by more than eight years of
experience as a Senior Researcher and Consultant in international organizations, NGOs, and
on behalf of government agencies. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the
European University Institute (EUI) and an MA in History from the University of Bochum.
Her work has appeared in International Peacekeeping, the Journal of Intervention and
Statebuilding, and the International Journal of Peace Studies. From 2018 to 2020, she was a
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth
University.
Website: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/andrea-warnecke#tab-1
Email: a.u.warnecke@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Andrei Gómez-Suárezis Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Religion, Reconciliation and Peace at the University of Winchester. He is the co-founder of Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD, Embrace Dialogue), He is also an Associated Researcher in the Department of Latin American, Hispanic and Portuguese studies at Bristol University and senior consultant of Positive Negatives. He is the author ofGenocide, Geopolitics, and Transnational Networks(Routledge, 2015), El Triunfo del No(Ícono, 2016), producer of La Confianza, and writer and producer of Jessica: Coca, Stigmatization, Violence and Development in Colombiaand Colombia’s Broken Peace(Positive Negatives, 2020, 2022).

Andy Carl is an experienced peacebuilding practitioner. He helped establish International Alert and co-founded Conciliation Resources.

Angela J. Lederach (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor of Peace and Justice Studies at Chapman University. She is the author ofFeel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia(Stanford University Press 2023) and co-author ofWhen Blood and Bones Cry Out: Journeys Through the Soundscape of Healing and Reconciliation(Oxford University Press 2010). As a cultural anthropologist and peace studies scholar-practitioner, Lederach has worked on peacebuilding and restorative justice processes in Sierra Leone, Philippines, Colombia, and the United States.

Anđela Đorđević is a Ph.D candidate and research assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Defense Studies, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). She is focused on research in post-conflict societies of the Western Balkans.

She was engaged in the project "Anxieties in Cities of Southeast European Post-Conflict Societies: Introducing an Integrative Approach to Peacebuilding (Anxious Peace)" led by Associate Professor Dr. Rok Zupančič. Within that project, she conducted research with colleagues in the following post-conflict places: Kamenica (Kosovo), Baljvine (Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina), and Gorski Kotar (Croatia).

Areej Elahi is a communications intern at PeaceTech Lab and  is currently pursuing an MBA and an M.A. International Affairs at George Washington University.