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.

Andrei Gómez-Suárez is 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 of Genocide, 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 Colombia and  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.

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.

DSc in Political Science, Professor, Head of Department of Applied Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia,  atanesyan@ysu.am

Dr. Ashley South has 20 years of experience as an independent author, researcher and consultant. He has a Ph.D. from the Australian National University, an MSc from SOAS (University of London), and is a Research Fellow at Chiang Mai University. His main research interests are: ethnic conflict and peace processes in Burma/Myanmar and Mindanao; forced migration (refugees and internally displaced people); politics of language and education; climate change (mitigation, adaptation and resilience).

Most of Ashley’s publications are available at his website: www.AshleySouth.co.uk

Atif Rizvi has worked for over two decades in strategic planning in tertiary education and institution building. He was educated at Harvard University and worked as a Senior Researcher in Education at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). At HIID, he was also the Assistant Editor of The Forum, a joint Harvard-USAID publication dedicated to advancing basic education and literacy.

Atif was the Executive Director of the Global Matriculation Initiative (GMI) at the Worldpaper in Boston from 1996 - 1998. Following, he was a consultant for the UNESCO and World Bank Task Force on Higher Education and Society. Between 2002 - 2008, Atif was the Executive Secretary of the UNEP Sasakawa Endowment and the Prize for the Environment. He has also held positions at UNICEF, UNESCO, and the United Nations Secretariat in New York. Mr. Rizvi has worked on achievement assessment, educational access and equity, and basic education delivery in a number of conflict-affected areas.