Elizabeth Drew is Head of Programmes, Peacebuilding, at Sudanese Development Initiative (SUDIA), a national non-governmental organisation based in Khartoum. She previously worked for the UK Department for International Development's Conflict Policy Team and, most recently, on the Accord series and international peacebuilding policy at Conciliation Resources. Elizabeth holds an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge University.
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Nigel Dodds OBE is Minister for Social Development in the new Northern Ireland Executive. He was a DUP member of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1982–85 and represented the party in the 1991 Brooke talks and was a delegate to the multi-party talks 1996–97.
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Peter Dixon is Chief Executive of Concordis International.
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Peter Dixon 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.
Esperanza Hernández is a researcher, teacher and consultant. She is co-author of the book Con la Esperanza Intacta about grassroots peacebuilding experiences.
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Thomas de Waal is Caucasus Editor of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London. He has written widely on South Caucasian and Russian politics, and is the author of Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War.
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Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peacebuilding.
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Alvaro de Soto’s appointments, during a 25-year career with the UN, have included Secretary-General’s Personal Representative for the Central American Peace Process, Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus, and Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.
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Accord Issue 19: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality
Formerly an anti-apartheid activist and member of the Mass Democratic Movement working to promote peaceful structural change in South Africa, Eldred De Klerk is Programme Manager of the Policing Programme at the Graduate School of Public and Development Management at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
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M. Nur Djuli was a GAM negotiator at the Helsinki peace talks and is now Executive Director of the Aceh Reintegration Board.
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Afridal Darmi is an advocate and human rights worker. He has served as the Director of the Board of the NGO Coalition for Human Rights and of KontraS Aceh and has been director of Banda Aceh’s legal aid foundation since 2003.
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