Dr Kirsti Samuels is an attorney with extensive experience of countries in conflict – in Somalia, Afghanistan, East Timor, Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti and Iraq. She is a writer and policy analyst on statebuilding and peacebuilding, and has advised governments and development agencies.
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Nazamuddin Basyah Said is a researcher at the Syiah Kuala University and co-founder of the Aceh Institute.
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Ayesha Saeed teaches at the NUST Business School, National University for Sciences and Technology, Islamabad. She received an M.A. in Peace Studies from University of Notre Dame, USA, and has interacted at formal and informal forums with cross-LoC traders from Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
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Warsan Cismaan Saalax is a writer in politics with a background in Pyschology and transculturalism. She is also a peace activist who works with the Somali community in London.
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Formerly a reporter for the newspaper Istiglal, Shahin Rzayev has worked for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting in Azerbaijan since 1999.
Shahin Rzayev 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.
Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran is a legal adviser to the LTTE and an Attorney-at-Law in the USA.
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Olivier Roy is a researcher at the French Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) who served as Head of the CSCE mission to Tajikistan in 1993-94 and has published widely on Central Asia.
Olivier Roy 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.
Mauricio Romero holds a PhD in Political Science from the New School for Social Research in New York. He teaches at the National University and recently published the book Paramilitares y Autodefensas, 1982–2003.
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Jorge Rojas Rodríguez is a journalist and author of many books on displacement, human rights and the armed conflict in Colombia. He is a peace activist and the Director of the Consultancy on Human Rights and Displacement.
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Rob Ricigliano is the Director of Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is the former Executive Director of the Conflict Management Group and Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project.
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Accord Issue 16: Engaging armed groups
Accord Issue 22: Cross-border peacebuilding
