Monseñor Leonardo Gomez Serna was the Bishop of the Diocese of Socorro and San Gil from 1996 until 2001. Currently the Bishop of Magangue, he is involved in various national peace initiatives and is a founding member of REDEPAZ.
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Geoff Gilbert is Professor of Law in the School of Law and a member of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He has extensive experience in the field of international refugee law and human rights law; he has been Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law since 2002 and has published various articles and chapters on this subject. In addition to his academic work, he has served in advisory and consultancy capacities to UNHCR, to various regional bodies and to the international NGO sector.
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Yash Ghai is the Sir YK Pao Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong. He was an adviser on the independence Constitution of Papua New Guinea and subsequently helped to negotiate The Bougainville Agreement of 1976.
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Dr. Archil Gegeshidze is a Senior Fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies and has a diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
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Nicholas Garrett is a Director of Resource Consulting Services Limited and a Research Associate with the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Daniel García-Peña headed the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace between 1995 and 1998. He also led Lucho Garzon’s campaigns for the Presidency in 2002 and for mayor of Bogotá in 2003. He is currently director of Planeta Paz and professor of political science at the National University.
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Mauricio García-Durán is a Jesuit priest and currently Executive Director of Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), Colombia. He has spent the last 25 years researching peace processes and social mobilisation for peace in Colombia. In addition, he has worked with displaced populations for the Center for Research and Popular Education (CINEP), where he was Executive Director between 2007 and 2012. He was issue editor of Accord 14: Alternatives to War – Colombia’s peace processes (2004).
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Mauricio Katz García worked at the Magdalena Medio Peace and Development Programme from 1996 – 2002, spending three years as deputy director. He works with international oraganisations and social movements in the formation of intersectoral regional development programmes.
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Jordi Urgell Garcia is researcher and deputy director of the School for a Culture of Peace, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He teaches peace and conflict studies and has done field research in conflict areas in Asia and Central America, where he also worked for a Guatemalan NGO.
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Building on his own experience in the 1986 'people's revolution' in the Philippines, Professor Ed Garcia has spent years promoting and supporting popular participation in peace processes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is a Senior Conflict adviser at International Alert in London.
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