Chris Spies is the director of Dynamic Stability CC, a conflict transformation and development practice, and a senior associate of the Centre for Conflict Resolution. He was the Regional organiser of the Western Cape Regional Peace Committee.
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Peter Sohia was a radio broadcaster with the National Broadcasting Commission of Papua New Guinea from 1973-1984, before he entered politics as the Provincial Government Member for Buka Passage. He is presently Bougainville's Peace Coordinator and the Administration’s Representative on the UN Peace Process Consultative Committee.
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Steven A. Smith is a consultant specialising in conflict resolution and links between conflict and natural resources. He has been an NGO coordinator in Rwandan refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, country director for USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives in Rwanda, and senior advocate for Refugees International covering humanitarian crises in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Scott S. Smith is a Political Affairs Officer in the Asia and Pacific Division of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs. He served as the Political adviser to the United Nations in Bougainville between February and December 2000, and chaired the technical negotiations between the two parties from June to December 2000.
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Brian Smith is an international development consultant. From 2003 to 2006 he was based in Sri Lanka, collaborating with numerous stakeholders to identify ways to support the struggling peace process.
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Mark Simmons is Research and Programme Manager at Concordis International.
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Mark Simmons is a contributor to our Accord publication series and not a staff member of Conciliation Resources. The views expressed in the publication are their own and do not reflect the position of Conciliation Resources. We cannot share contributors' contact details.
Abdurahman Osman Abdulle 'Shuke' is Director of Puntland Development and Research Center, Garowe, Puntland State, Somalia.
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Ben Shepherd has worked on the Great Lakes region since 2002 in a variety of policy and research roles. Most recently he was the 2009-10 David Davies of Llandinam research fellow in International Relations at the London School of Economics.
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In 1999 Hassan Sheikh co-founded the Somali Institute of Management and Administration Development (SIMAD). He joined the Center for Research and Dialogue (CRD) in 2001 as a researcher and later research coordinator and led the formation of the Somali Civil Society Forum in 2005. In 2006 he co-founded the Somali Research and Education Network (SomaliREN), and since 2007 has worked as a consultant with various international and local organisations.
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Laura Seay is an assistant professor of political science at Morehouse College. Her research addresses community responses to state fragility in central and eastern Africa. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and is writing a book on the differences in the ways that civil society organisations respond to the state's absence in social service provision. She is a contributor to the Christian Science Monitor's Africa Monitor blog.
