Third Premier of Bougainville in 1987 and subsequently Chairman of the Bougainville Interim Government from 1990, Joseph Kabui led the BIG and BRA delegations to many of the peace process negotiations. He is currently President of the Bougainville People’s Congress.
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Sidney Jones is Senior Adviser to International Crisis Group’s Asia programme, based in Jakarta. She worked previously with Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Ford Foundation.
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Dr Pat Johnson has been Senior Program Officer with the Interpeace Somali program since 2005, having previously worked with Oxfam-GB and the UN in Puntland, and the EC Delegation in Nairobi. She has played a major role in Interpeace's peace-mapping study, undertaken by the three Somali partner institutions, which reviews Somali-led peace initiatives and lessons learned from national-level peace processes.
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Mohamed Ahmed Jama is executive director of Somalia Organisation for Community development (SOCDA), a social development and civil society centre in Somalia that deals with capacity building, advocacy, lobbying, research and documentation.
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Ibrahim Hashi Jama is editor of Somalilandlaw.com Over the last 12 years he has translated into English and written extensively about the Somaliland Constitution and laws.
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Faiza Jama Mohamed has been an active member of the women’s movement in Somalia for over 20 years, beginning in Somaliland in the 1990s. She co-founded the Coalition for Grassroots Women’s Organisations in Somalia in 1996, which promotes peace and gender equality and advocates for women’s rights. Faiza is currently Director of the Africa regional office of Equality Now in Nairobi, which works to document violence and discrimination against women.
Dr Anne Itto was a member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) delegation to the Naivasha talks. She has taught at the University of Juba and served as the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in the Government of National Unity from 2005–2011. Dr Itto was also the Secretary General for the southern sector of the SPLM, and was nominated to the National Assembly in 2005.
Armine Ishkanian is a lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published widely on civil society, democracy-building, development, gender and human rights in Armenia and the former Soviet Union.
Oier Imaz is a PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country studying institutional management of knowledge in multicultural and plurinational societies.
Oier Imaz 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.
Mohammed Hassan Ibrahim is lead researcher at the Academy for Peace and Development, Hargeisa, Somaliland.
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