James Obita
Dr James A. Obita is a Ugandan working to try and bring peace to northern Uganda. He holds a PhD from the School of Industrial Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Australia.
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John Massaquoi
John Massaquoi is director of the Sulima Fishing Community Development Project in Sierra Leone. He has spoken about his community peacebuilding work in Sierra Leone and Liberia at several international conferences.
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David Lord
David Lord is a former co-director of Conciliation Resources and was manager of CR's West Africa programme from 1995 to 1999.
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Lansana Gberie
Lansana Gberie is a journalist and research associate of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies and a doctoral student at the University of Toronto. He covered the Sierra Leone war from 1991–1996 and attended the peace talks in Côte d'Ivoire in 1996.
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Frances Fortune
Frances Fortune was Conciliation Resources' West Africa programme coordinator from March 1997 to July 2000, based in Bo. Previously she worked with a number of international and Sierra Leonean NGOs on social and rural development programmes.
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Dennis Bright
Dennis Bright is country director of the 'Institut Regional de Cooperation' (IRCOD), a Sierra Leonean NGO working with youth, women and social issues. He is a Commissioner on the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace (CCP) and holds a PhD from the University of Bordeaux, France.
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David Newton
David joined Conciliation Resources in February 2011 until 2014, after working for four years as a conflict adviser in the UK’s Department for International Development. Prior to that he spent three years as the Quaker Peace and Social Witness Representative in Uganda, managing a team working on the LRA conflict.
He had previously worked at the Centre for International Cooperation at the University of Bradford, and for a variety of NGOs and the Swiss Development Agency in Central Asia and the north Caucasus.
Talking borders
Our three-part 20-minute docu-drama gives a voice to communities in the border regions of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, whose daily lives are blighted by petty corruption, routine harassment and bureaucracy.
Community peacebuilding and the LRA conflict
Conciliation Resources' partner, Archbishop Odama, speaks about regional, community-based attempts to peacefully resolve the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) conflict. The LRA conflict has spread since 2008 from Uganda into the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan.
Felix Colchester
Felix works across the APL team. He coordinates strands of Conciliation Resources' policy engagement with the European Union and UK Government, contributes to Accord projects and undertakes research as part of cross-organisational research programmes.