Sister Lorraine Garasu is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth and Coordinator of the Bougainville Inter-Church Women’s Forum. She is also the founder of the Nazarene Rehabilitation Centre on Bougainville. She has participated in peace negotiations in Bougainville and overseas.
Sultan Said is a respected and influential titled elder from Garowe town, Nugal region in Puntland. He has participated in numerous peace processes in northeast Somalia, including those that resulted in the formation of the Puntland State of Somalia in 1998.
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Lina Frödin worked for the European Union in Aceh from 2005 – 2008 as an expert on reintegration and peacebuilding. She previously worked on human rights issues in Aceh and on the West Bank.
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Sabine Freizer is the Caucasus Project Director for the International Crisis Group. From 1996-2000 she was employed by the OSCE in Sarajevo and Tashkent; she subsequently served widely as a consultant on the Caucasus and Central Asia and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.
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Miriam Coronel Ferrer is director of the Programme on Peace, Conflict Resolution and Democratisation at the University of the Philippines and currently a member-consultant of the Reciprocal Working Committee for Political and Economic Reforms of the Government Negotiating Panel for talks with the National Democratic Front.
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Carlos Hernán Fernández Niño has collaborated on pedagogical projects and research on civil peace mobilisation in Colombia, working as project adviser at the Programa por la Paz from 1997 to 2003.
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Kate Fearon is a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition. She was the NIWC’s Chief of Staff in the negotiations for the Belfast Agreement and in the inaugural Northern Ireland Assembly. She went on to become Deputy Head of the Political Department of the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2009 and 2010 she was the Governance Advisor on rule of law issues to the UK-led Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan.
Khadra Elmi is a British-Somali researcher with extensive field research on issues of displacement in all regions of Somalia and the UK Diaspora. She currently works for the Danish Refugee Council in Yemen.
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Ambassador Jan Eliasson, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Darfur since December 2006 and formerly President of the UN General Assembly, was interviewed for Accord by Mikael Eriksson (European University Institute) in August 2007.
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Dr Omer Egemi works for the United Nations Development Programme in Khartoum and has published widely on resource-based conflict.
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