Hannes Siebert is a senior adviser for the UN and Common Space Initiative in Lebanon, Middle East and North Africa and Burma/Myanmar, providing technical and facilitation support to national dialogues and peace structures, and to constitutional and political reform processes. During the 1990s in South Africa, he served as a director in the National Peace Secretariat, and assisted the Special Presidential Task Force of President Nelson Mandela.

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Accord Issue 25: Legitimacy and peace processes

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