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.

John Paul Lederach is Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Senior Fellow at Humanity United.

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Bebhinn McKinley is currently a Good Relations Manager for Mid and East Antrim Borough Council.  Previous positions have included working with the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister on the Together: Building a United Community Strategy, which was part of the Executive’s commitment to improving community relations and continuing the journey towards a more united and shared society.  She has also worked in Northern Ireland for Non-Governmental Organisations, Community Relations Council, Rural Community Network and Women into Politics and as volunteer for a grassroots orga