Peace News Expert Network

Delphin Ntanyoma is a visiting researcher at the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Leeds. He is interested in microlevel violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), genocide, minorities, and social media.

Denisa Kostovicova is Professor of Global Politics at the European Institute and the Lead ofthe LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe at the Hellenic Observatory, bothat the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is a scholar of conflict and peace processes with a particular interest in post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice. Professor Kostovicova is the author of Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk about War Crimes (Cornell University Press, 2023) and Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (Routledge, 2005). She is co-editor of 8 volumes on reconciliation and transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction and state-building, and transnationalism.Professor Kostovicova’s research has been funded by a number of prestigious grants, including those by the Leverhulme Trust, MacArthur Foundation and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), among others.Her work has been published in leading academic journals includingAmerican Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Studies,Security Dialogue, and others. ProfessorKostovicova currently directs a major research programme funded by the European Research Council, titled ‘Justice Interactions and Peace-building (JUSTINT).’ She has authored a number of policy papers on issues concerning Western Balkans’ European integration, post-conflict recovery and regional security. Her academic research and policy contributions have informed policy making at the EU, UN, and in the UK.

Dr Denise Bentrovato is originally from Italy and studied foreign languages, African studies, international relations, conflict resolution, and international and political history in the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom. In 2013, she completed her PhD at the Research Institute for History and Culture at the University of Utrecht, with a thesis investigating the politics of history, identity and education in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Throughout her career, she has worked in academia and for government institutions, international organisations and NGOs in Europe and Africa in the fields of peacebuilding and post-war educational reform, including UNESCO, the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI).

Her academic work combines an interest in memory politics, transitional justice and history education in Africa, and covers questions surrounding the politics and practice of history curriculum and textbook revision and the teaching and learning of sensitive and controversial histories of abuse, conflict, mass violence and genocide in post-colonial and post-war societies.

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.

Fikret Čaušević is Professor of Economics and Finance at the School of Economics and Business, University of Sarajevo. From 1996 to 2007, Čaušević was a senior research fellow and deputy director at the Sarajevo Institute of Economics. During that period, he was closely associated with the United Nations Development Programme (2000-2003), the Urban Institute from Washington and the USAID (2004-2006), and with the Bosnian business sector (throughout that period). From 2002 to 2010, he was the South East Europe Faculty Development Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In the 2011/12 academic year, he was the Alpha Bank Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Since 2018 Čaušević has been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over the last ten years, he has published the following research monographs:The Global Crisis of 2008 and Keynes's General Theory(Springer, 2014);Globalization, Southeastern Europe, and the World Economy(Routledge, 2015),A Study into Financial Globalization, Economic Growth, and (In)Equality(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017),Financial Globalization, EconomicPower, and (In)Efficiency (Springer International Publishing: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), andDeglobalization, Financial Inequality, and the Green Economy(Routledge, 2023).

Frank Okyere Osei is a researcher, educator, and peacebuilding practitioner specializing in atrocity prevention and peace architectures in fragile contexts. He is a doctoral student at the College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and a Senior Fellow at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Ghana. With nearly two decades of experience in research, policy, and training, his work focuses on bridging the gap between global norms like the Responsibility to Protect and local implementation strategies, particularly in Africa. He has published widely on international peacebuilding, atrocity prevention, and local infrastructures for peace. Frank also serves as a consultant on regional peace and security issues, contributing to risk assessment frameworks and policies that foster resilience and violence prevention.