Peace News Expert Network

Camilo Tamayo Gómezis aSenior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield (UK). He is a Senior Adviser in Transitional Justice for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Catherine Vanner is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Windsor. Her research uses qualitative and participatory methods to examine the relationship between gender, violence, and education in North American and Sub-Saharan African contexts. Her current research analyzes teacher and student experiences on education about gender-based violence in Canada and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University and as Education Advisor for Plan International Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency (now Global Affairs Canada). She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Ottawa and a M.A. in International Affairs from Carleton University.

Cecile Pentori is the South Asia Program Coordinator for Conciliation Resources. She has worked with UNDP, UNIFEM and holds a Master degree in IR.

Cedric de Coningis a Research Professor with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) where he co-directs the Center on UN and Global Governance, and he is a senior advisor and chief editor for the African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). He holds a PhD from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch (2012). He has served in a number of advisory capacities for the African Union and United Nations, including on the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board for the Peacebuilding Fund. He has co-edited 10 books, of which the most recent is ‘Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria’ (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022). He tweets at @CedricdeConing.

Chas Morrison is Assistant Professor for Research at the Institute for Peace and Security, Coventry University. His main research interests are around the social dynamics in crisis-affected environments, covering civil society and community actions, civilian protection and conflict legacies. He also researches participation, inclusion and leadership in post-disaster reconstruction. Before joining Coventry University, he worked for several years for humanitarian NGOs in East Africa and South Asia community reconstruction programmes after civil conflict and disaster.

Christantus Begealawuhis an expert in African Peace and Security and a consultant at Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASDEV). He is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Christian Cito Cirhigiri is a peace journalist from the Democratic Republic of Congo and founder of the Peacemaker 360 campaign

Christine Andrä is an assistant professor of International Relations at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She was a postdoctoral researcher during the first phase of the (Un-)Stitching Gazes / (Des)tejiendo Miradas project. For further information, see: https://www.rug.nl/staff/c.i.andra/

Dr. Crystena Parker-Shandal is an Associate Professor in Social Development Studies at Renison
University College at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Parker-Shandal’s research expertise is in
curriculum and pedagogy, restorative justice in education, conflict resolution, inclusion,
antiracism, peacebuilding, and dialogue in diverse global communities. She examines issues such
as how peacebuilding education and conflict dialogue processes could work to foster a sense of
inclusion for marginalized children and youth and how such practices, in their successful
implementation, can challenge young people to engage in authentic dialogue and conflict
learning. She is the author of Restorative Justice in the Classroom: Liberating Students’ Voices
through Relational Pedagogy (2022) and Peacebuilding, Citizenship, and Identity: Empowering
Conflict and Dialogue in Multicultural Classrooms (2016). She is co-editor of Finding Refuge in
Canada: Narratives of Dislocation (2021) and editor of First-Gen Docs: Personal, Political, and
Intellectual Perspectives From the First-Generation Doctoral Experience (2024). For more
about her work, visit: https://www.drparkershandal.com

Dr. Daniel Rothbart is professor at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University.  He specializes in ethnic conflicts, power and conflict, and the psycho-politics of conflict.  He is co-director of the Program on Prevention of Mass Violence and director of the Laboratory entitled Transforming the Mind for Peace.