international conflict and security

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Dr. Alejandro Bendaña

Alejandro (Ph.D. History, Harvard) is president of the Centro de Estudios Internacionales in Managua (Nicaragua), which he founded in 1990. Prior to establishing CEI, his diplomatic career included serving as the Secretary General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Managua), as well as the Ambassador of Nicaragua to the UN. Alejandro has also consulted with various international bodies on disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration, and on post-war peace-building in Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Somalia and Indonesia.

General (Rtd.) Alfred Ilogho

Brigadier General (Nigeria) Alfred Ilogho (Rtd.) has over 30 years of experience in the peace and security field. Among many deployments, General Ilogho has served as a Multi-National Force Commander in both Liberia and Sierra Leone’s Peace and Security Operations, and as the Joint Task Force Commander of Operation RESTORE HOPE-Warri (JTF) in the Niger Delta region. He is a graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth (Kansas) and of the National Defence College (Nigeria). He holds an MA in Strategic Studies from the University of Ibadan and is a chartered member of National Institute of Management (MNIM).

Faustino Imbali

Faustino (DEA, Maîtrise, Licence, Université Bordeaux) has over 20 years experience as a practitioner and researcher in conflict management, governance and social development. He is the former Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister of Guinée-Bissau. Since then he has worked with ECOWAS on small arms proliferation and with InterPeace on security sector reform and post-conflict stabilisation. Faustino has published extensively on dialogue and consensus-building, small arms proliferation, and governance in West Africa. He is fluent in Portuguese and French.

Dr. Kumar Rupesinghe

Kumar (Ph.D. Economics, City) is the Chairman/Founder of the National Anti-War Front and the Foundation for Coexistence in Sri Lanka since 2003. He serves as the advisor on Peace Initiatives to the Carter Centre’s International Negotiation Network (Atlanta) and has advised the Sri Lankan Prime Minister on the Triple ‘R’ Programme (2002). Kumar held the positions of Secretary General of International Alert (1992-1998), Director of the State of the World Forum (1997-2000), and Commissioner of the Commission on Globalisation (State of the World Forum) (1999-2002). He is the Chair of the Programme on Culture and Ethnicity of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (Japan) and a Member of the Board at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).

Bakary Dabo

Bakary is a senior legal professional with over 30 years of experience in diplomacy (The Gambia), the UN and the public sector on issues concerning peace and security. Bakary served as the Ambassador to Senegal for The Gambia and has served the UN as a senior mediation advisor such as to the UNOWA mission in Dakar on the peaceful political transition in Guinea. With extensive work experience in West Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Western Sahara Bakary now provides consulting services on issues ranging from governance to mediation and negotiation. Bakary has a BA from Ibadan University (Nigeria) and post-graduate studies in Law (UK).

Gregg Pascal Zachary

Gregg is a writer, teacher and researcher. He provides risk assessment and strategic advice in sub-Saharan Africa for corporations, foundations and non-governmental organizations. Gregg spent 13 years as a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal (1989 to 2001) and created the Ping column on innovation for The New York Times (2007-08). He is the author of books on political and economic arrangements that support successful ethno-racial diversity ("The Diversity Advantage, 2003) and the historical roots of nuclear-weapons development ("Endless Frontier," 1997). Gregg has taught courses in journalism and communications at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and has worked extensively on the role of media in conflict situations, and the social and geographic drivers of global technological change.

Dr. Sunday Ochoche

Sunday’s career spans 30 years in senior management in the UN system, government and academia. His UN experience covers peacekeeping missions in Sierra Leone and Darfur and UNDP HQ in New York. Sunday has also headed the Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Nigerian Presidency. In his UN and IPCR capacity he has facilitated peace initiatives and positively defined and implemented policy, peacebuilding and development processes. In academia, he has taught and researched state building, conflict analysis, Security Sector Reform, state institutions and post-conflict recovery.