Mike McGovern
Mike McGovern is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. From 2004-2006 he worked as the West Africa Project Director of the International Crisis Group.
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Meredith Preston McGhie
Meredith Preston McGhie is Senior Programme Manager for Africa at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and provided technical support to the UN Political Office for Somalia in the Djibouti peace process for Somalia, October 2008 to February 2009.
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Clem McCartney
Clem McCartney is an independent consultant on conflict and community issues from Northern Ireland, where he has worked with the main protagonists on the peace process. Recent involvements include the Sri Lankan and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts.
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Accord Issue 8: Northern Ireland
Accord Issue 16: Engaging armed groups
Bernhard May
Bernhard May is advisor to the Governor of Aceh and Team Leader of the EU-financed Aceh Local Governance Programme, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ).
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Ismael Mateus
Ismael Mateus is Secretary General of the Union of Angolan Journalists (SJA). He has worked as editor in chief for media outlets in Angola and writes regularly in the independent press.
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Jason Matus
Jason Matus has been working in southern Sudan since 1994. He was an observer for the US Government at the Three Areas peace talks and participated in the Joint Assessment Mission for the Three Areas. He continues to be involved in southern Sudan as an advisor to USAID.
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Martin Mansergh
Martin Mansergh is a member of Fianna Fáil. He was special adviser to the Taoiseach 1987–94 and since 1997, and head of research for Fianna Fáil 1981–87 and 1994–97.
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Elmar Mammadyarov
Elmar Mammadyarov has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan since 2004. A graduate of the Kiev State University, the USSR Diplomatic Academy and the Centre for Foreign Policy Development at Brown University, he has previously served in Azerbaijan’s diplomatic missions to the United Nations, United States and Italy.
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Taj es-Sir Mahjoub
Dr Taj es-Sir Mahjoub is a former government minister who was head of the Government of Sudan’s wealth-sharing committee in the Naivasha peace talks and is now co-chairman of the Joint National Transition Team and Secretary-General of the National Council for Strategic Planning.
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As-Sadiq al-Mahdi
As-Sadiq Al-Mahdi is Imam of the Islamic Ansar sect and has been Chairman of the Umma Party since 1964. He served as elected Prime Minister of Sudan 1966-67 and again 1986-89, when he was ousted in a bloodless military coup.
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