Long-time legal adviser to former South African President Nelson Mandela, Fink Haysom has extensive direct experience of mediation and facilitation in a number of peace processes. He was appointed to lead the UN team helping Iraq to write its new Constitution and from 2002 has worked under General Sumbeiywo on the IGAD peace process.
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Avaz Hasanov is the director of the Society for Humanitarian Research in Azerbaijan and editor of their magazine, Human Rights in Azerbaijan. He has participated widely in dialogue meetings with Armenian counterparts.
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Faisal Hadi has been Executive Director of the Human Rights Coalition (Koalisi HAM), a leading human rights advocacy group in Aceh, since 2003.
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Rodrigo Gutiérrez is the Ex-President of the business group ‘organización Corona y Fundación Corona ‘ and currently advises various organisations and businesses in Colombia. He is President of the ‘Ideas para la Paz’ foundation.
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Carlos Lozano is a lawyer and editor of the weekly paper VOZ. He was a member of the Comisión de Personalidades for the Caguán talks and is a member of the national leadership of the Communist Party.
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Mark Grigoryan, a founder of the Caucasus Media Institute in Yerevan, moved to London after an attempt on his life. He writes on journalism in the former Soviet Union and has been involved in training journalists from the region. He is now a producer for the BBC World Service.
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Aaron Griffiths has been Accord Series Editor and also Editor/Researcher at Conciliation Resources.
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Accord Issue 19: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality
Vera Grabe was a co-founder of the M-19 and led the movement until 1990. She was subsequently an AD M-19 Senator and currently teaches peace education in communities and at university level.
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As a UN Under-Secretary-General from 1986 to 1997, Sir Marrack Goulding was involved in the negotiation and implementation of peace settlements in Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Haiti, Cambodia, the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. He is currently Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford.
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Fernán González has worked at CINEP for 32 years as a researcher on Colombian political history, the relationship of the Church and the State and the historical origins of recent violence. He is completing a PhD from the University of Berkeley, California and teaches in universities in Colombia and abroad.
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