Hizkias Assefa is an international peacebuilding practitioner and professor of Conflict Studies at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Working with Pax Christi, he played a mediating role in the lead up to and early part of the Juba talks. More recently he has been involved in mediation work in Senegal and Nigeria, and was a mediation expert for the African Union sponsored talks led by Kofi Annan to end post-election violence in Kenya.

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