Janet Adama Mohammed
Janet leads our peacebuilding work across West Africa, working with groups often excluded from formal peace processes including women and young people.
Mira Sovakar
Mira leads aspects of the Caucasus team's monitoring, evaluation and learning, finance and grant management, and facilitates dialogue processes.
Dr Laurence Broers
Laurence re-joined Conciliation Resources in 2019 as Caucasus Programme Director having previously worked at Conciliation Resources as Caucasus Projects Manager from November 2008 - December 2013.
Thomas Mark Turay
Thomas Mark Turay is a Sierra Leonean and former director of Caritas Makeni and currently completing his doctoral programme at the University of Toronto. His research interests include peace education and social change, local capacity building and sustainable development.
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Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff
Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff is a lawyer and women’s rights advocate. She was a prominent member of the women’s movement in Sierra Leone, and sits on the board of Femmes-Africa-Solidarité. She has held posts as Executive Secretary for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone, Sub-regional President and head of the Sierra Leone Chapter, Mano River Women’s Peace Network and Coordinator for the Network for the Promotion of African Principles of Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation.
Ismail Rashid
Ismail Rashid is from Sierra Leone and is assistant professor of History and African Studies at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. His research includes resistance against slavery and colonialism in West Africa, student and youth radicalism, conflict and peace. He has worked with Conciliation Resources as a consultant in West Africa.
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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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