Dorys Ardila is promoter of participation of the diaspora in the National Peace Council.
Dorys Ardila 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.
Sean Molloy is an associate of the Political Settlements Research Programme and a research associate at Newcastle University Law School.
Sean Molloy 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.
Dr Minendra Rijal is a Member of the House of Representatives of Nepal’s Federal Parliament, and a member of the Central Working Committee of the Nepali Congress political party. He previously served as Minister for Information and Communications (2014–15) and as Minister for Constituent Assembly, Parliamentary Affairs and Culture (2009–11). Dr Rijal was also one of the architects of the mixed electoral system adopted by Nepal to ensure greater social and gender diversity in the Constituent Assembly.
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Manjushree Thapa is a writer with a number of books to her credit, both fiction and non-fiction. She is the author of the highly acclaimed Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy, and The Lives We Have Lost: Essays and Opinions on Nepal. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, London Review of Books, and Newsweek, among others.
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Judith Verweijen is a Lecturer in International Security at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research. In 2015 and 2016, she was Lead Researcher of the Rift Valley Institute’s Usalama project, which focused on armed groups and local governance. Judith’s research examines the interplay between violence, conflict and armed mobilisation; the inner workings of state and non-state armed forces; the militarisation of conflicts around natural resources; and violence against civilians.
Esra Çuhadar is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey and Senior Fellow at the Inclusive Peace and Transition Initiative in Geneva, Switzerland. She was Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 2018.
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Catherine O’Rourke is a Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and International Law at the Transitional Justice Institute. Catherine's research interests covers engagement by women’s movements with transitional justice processes, the gendered outcomes of transitional justice processes and gender and reparations.
Sara Hellmüller is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Montreal, senior researcher at swisspeace and lecturer at the University of Basel. She specialises in peace and conflict studies, with a particular focus on mediation, local and international peacebuilding, and the analysis of armed conflicts.
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Andy Carl is an experienced peacebuilding practitioner with a career of leadership in the NGO sector. Andy currently works as an independent writer and advisor to individuals, groups and organisations engaged in working on peace, justice and social change processes. He helped establish International Alert in 1989 and in 1994 he co-founded Conciliation Resources where he was Executive Director for 22 years.
