Alliou Traoré is a conflict management and peacebuilding expert with ten years of experience working on programs to initiate dialogue between conflicting communities and find solutions to longstanding points of tension. Mr. Traoré got his start in his native Côte d’Ivoire, where he worked as an Information, Counseling and Legal Assistance Adviser with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
Amina Khalid academically specialises in the Sociology of Medicine and Social Policy with a Masters in Equality and Diversity Policies. She is internationally trained in dialogue facilitation, mediation, communication and conflict resolution and has worked in Africa, Asia, Middle East and Europe. She has been with Initiatives of Change for the last 10 years.
Anna Lena Schiller grew up in the Lüneburg Heath between cows and green meadows. From there it went into the big wide world in the USA, Canada and then long to Scandinavia, where it studied applied world rescue. Back in Germany, she then turned her thinking into pictures into her profession and influenced the graphic recording scene in Germany early on. Since 2008 in Berlin and now in her studio in Hamburg she has her own studio VISUALESDENKEN. She works for large international companies, start-ups, freelancers, political parties and NGOs.
Idayat Hassan is a senior program officer at the Centre for Democracy and Development West Africa (CDD), where she helps develop and implement projects promoting empowerment and democratization in West Africa. Prior to joining the CCD, Idayat was a deputy regional coordinator with the Movement Against Corruption in Nigeria, an organization that seeks to eradicate corruption and poverty in Nigeria. Idayat received her bachelor’s degree in law from the Lagos State University, Ojo, and holds an LL.M.
Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat is a transformational peace professional, heading the Nigerian Mission for International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) as its Nigerian Ambassador between 2011-2016. He was elevated in December 2015, to double as Under Secretary General for the IHRC before resigning to begin the operation of Foundation for Peace Professionals. He holds Bachelor Degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution and currently pursing Masters Degree in the same field at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
An associate professor at the School of Engineering and Management in Yverdon-les-Bains in western Switzerland, Véronique Sikora brings her passion for knowledge sharing, and several years of multicultural experience in communications and training, to TIP. Having worked in business and government in Canada and Switzerland, she became keenly interested in how people share knowledge. This led her to steer her career path towards higher education where for the last 13 years she has been designing and delivering courses in business communications.
Dominique de Buman is a Swiss politician who has been active on the political scene since 1986, when he first served as Municipal councilor of his native canton at Fribourg. Also involved since 1988 in one of the main swiss political parties – the Christian-Democrat party – he was elected vice-president in 2004 and served as such the party until 2016. At the Swiss national parliament, Mr. de Buman served as a National Councilor since 2003. He was elected as Second Vice-president of the National Council in 2015, and as First National Council vice-president in 2016.
Josephine A. Apira, born and raised in Uganda, is currently a refugee living in the UK. She is a human rights activist and is the present Chair of the Ugandan Sustainable Development Initiative (USDI). In 1986, Josephine was running the World Bank’s regional reconstruction programme in Northern Uganda, when President Museveni came to power. After witnessing numerous atrocities being committed in Northern Uganda by Museveni’s National Resistance Army (NRA), she fled firstly to Southern Sudan, then to Kenya, before being granted a visa to enter the UK.
Anik Asad is an Anthropologist and at the same time he is a devoted Social Worker and Human Rights Activist working for the advancement for the most marginalized people of Bangladesh. He started his career as an academician in a public university as an Anthropologists but ultimately he changed his career and became a social worker and a human rights activist to pursue his commitments towards the most marginalized people of Bangladesh as he sees the advancement of society in the lanes of an anthropological world view.