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Dr Maurice Besengis a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University. His research focuses on issues of conflict, security, and development in Cameroon

Dr. Nancy Annan is an Assistant Professor in Peace, Conflict and Global Development at the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University.

Elizabeth (Liz) Hume is the Senior Director for Programs and Strategy at the Alliance for Peacebuilding.

Eugenie Rose Fontepis an Economist passionate for peacebuilding. Her work interests aim to link issues of peacebuilding, conflict, fragility, and violence to development factors, including, labor market, education, and health outcomes among others. She conducts and has conducted severalresearchprojects on war survivors, refugees, internally displaced persons and the stateless community inCameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo,Kenya, Niger,Nigeria, andSierra Leoneamong others. She also contributes to the peace making process by participating in international peacebuilding related debates. The recent ones includeWIDER Development Conference: The puzzle of peace – towards inclusive development in fragile contextsor theUnited Nations Future Forum on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). She holds a PhD in economics.

I am a researcher in the Climate Change and Risk programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). My research focuses on understanding what the relationship between climate change and violence looks like in different settings, and how interventions to address the effects of climate change can be used to build peace. I mainly focus on the connections between climate change, food security, and conflict, and on climate adaptation and peacebuilding.

Gabriela Taveras Ruiz is a Diplomacy and International Relations graduate from Seton Hall University, and youth representative at the United Nations.

Gabrielle Lynch is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Warwick. She has been awarded multiple grants and published widely. This includes three monographs – I say to you: Ethnic politics and the Kalenjin of Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2011), Performances of Injustice: The politics of truth, justice and reconciliation in Kenya (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa: Democracy, Voting and Virtue (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Nic Cheeseman and Justin Willis – and three edited collections.

George A. Lopez is the Hesburgh Professor of Peace Studies, Emeritus, at the Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame and one of the world’s ranking experts on economic sanctions. Over three decades Lopez has advised the United Nations, international agencies, and various governments regarding sanctions issues, ranging from the design of targeted financial sanctions to limiting their humanitarian impact. He also has written extensively on economic sanctions.

Goitom Gebreluel is a Henry Chauncey Jr. '57 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. He specializes in the international and comparative politics of the Horn of Africa. His book project examines the role of ideology and policy learning in the making of Ethiopian grand strategies and how these strategies, in turn, shaped the onset, escalation and termination of its regional rivalries. His other research interests include alliance politics, nationalism and the sources of stable territorial orders. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Cambridge and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Gordon Crawford is Research Professor in Global Development at the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University.