Peace News Expert Network

Mora Deitch is a Ph.D. candidate at the Political Studies Department of Bar-Ilan University, a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), and a Neubauer Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Mora’s research focuses on the influence of religion on politics and conflicts.

Natalia Dalmer is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover. Her most recent book Building Environmental Peace: The UN Environment Programme as a Knowledge Actor was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022.

Natasha Robinson works to bridge the gap between those who design education policies and programmes, and those who benefit from them.

My training in anthropology has equipped me to understand people on their own terms, while my background in educational research has driven my interest in how and what people learn. I bring together qualitative and quantitative data to help reimagine educational excellence and equality, particularly in low-income countries.

To date my experience has focused on social cohesion, teacher education, curriculum development, higher education, academic publishing, and the experiences of young people. My PhD dissertation explored how history education shapes students' understanding of contemporary social problems in South Africa. I have worked in both research and programme design in diverse contexts, including the UK, South Africa, Nigeria, India, Myanmar, Denmark, the USA, China, and Sierra Leone.

I seek opportunities to expand this experience on issues relating to young people and social justice.

Nicholas Noe is the co-Founder of Mideastwire.com, a news translation service covering Middle East media.

As a research associate at the Africa Center, Paul Nantulya researches and prepares written analysis on contemporary Africa security issues. His areas of expertise include Chinese foreign policy, China/Africa relations, African partnerships with Southeast Asian countries, mediation and peace processes, the Great Lakes region, and East and Southern Africa.

Prior to joining the Africa Center, Mr. Nantulya served as a regional technical advisor on South Sudan for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) from 2009 to 2011, where he supported crisis mitigation for the Government of South Sudan including writing policy analyses for the Ministry of Peace and Comprehensive Peace Agreement Implementation. In this role he worked closely with South Sudan’s external partners, particularly Japan’s International Cooperation Agency, on conflict prevention.

Dr. Philipp Busch is a game designer, author and international keynote speaker. In spring 2018 Busch finished his doctoral thesis on “Gamification and Serious Games in Development Cooperation”. He teaches game-based approaches and agile methods at the University of Mainz, Germany and is a certified Scrum Master and Design Thinking Coach. He has worked for several years in the sector of international cooperation with a specific focus on Gamification, Serious Games and interactive digital learning scenarios. In 2020, Busch started his own consultancy working in close cooperation with different actors of international cooperation. His company Mind Games GmbH supports institutions such as the ILO, ETUI, FES or GIZ on implementing innovative learning scenarios in heterogeneous contexts, for instance Yemen, China, Afghanistan and a variety of African countries.

Pol Bargués is research fellow at CIDOB (Barcelona Center for International Affairs), Barcelona, Spain. His research examines war-peace transitions and the evolution of international interventions. He is Editor in Chief of theJournal of Intervention and Statebuilding

Quhramaana Kakar manages Conciliation Resources’ Women Mediators across the Commonwealth program, and is a former adviser to the High Peace Council of Afghanistan.

Rabina Shresthais the Country Director of International Alert Nepal. She is a gender equality, justice, peacebuilding and rule of law expert with extensive experience working on human rights, transitional justice, media rights and rule of law in Nepal.

Robert Kosho Ndiyun is a PhD researcher at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research focuses on transitional justice in conflict and post conflict situations. He also Lectured at International University Bamenda in Cameroon, Heritage Higher Institute of Peace and Development Studies Yaoundé, and Higher Institute of Educational and Professional Studies, Yaoundé.