GLOBAL PEACEBUILDERS NETWORK

The GPN is a growing network of active peacemakers from conflict regions. New members are accepted based on nominations decided by the GPN Advisory Board. The network is supported by the German Culture Counts Foundation.

Suzan Aref Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Suzan Aref

Country/region: Iraq
Conflict: Civil War
Organisation: Women Empowerment Organization (WEO)
Field of work: Help and education for refugees, establishing shelters for battered women, education, support on legal issues

Hania Bitar Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Hania Bitar

Country/region: Palestine
Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Organisation: Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation (PYALARA)
Field of work: Empowerment of young Palestinians through specialized youth media and peer-to-peer-groups, human rights, women rights, leadership

Assaad Chaftari Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Assaad Chaftari

Country/region: Lebanon
Conflict: Civil war
Organisation: Fighters for Peace / Initiatives of Change Lebanon
Field of work: Reconciliation, non-violent conflict resolution, Preach for personal change…and the rest, mainly by trying to reach ex-fighters, youth and politicians

Bal Kumari Gurung Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Bal Kumari Gurung

Country/region: Nepal
Conflict: Social Conflicts (ethnic, gender and faith)
Organisation: United Mission to Nepal
Field of work: Local capacities for peace, trauma healing, interfaith peacebuilding, cross border initiatives, gender justice and community mediationogue, empowerment for women, women on development

Cheryl Hendricks Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Cheryl Hendricks

Country/region: South Africa
Conflict: Post-conflict Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Mediation, Stakeholder Dialogues
Organisation: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
Field of work: Peacebuilding/ Transitional Justice/ Reconciliation/Women Peace and Security/ Preventing Violent Extremism

Dishani Jayaweera Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Dishani Jayaweera

Country/region:  Sri Lanka
Conflict: Civil war, primarily between Tamil group and the Singhalese-dominated Government
Organisation: Center for Peacebuilding and Reconciliation
Field of work: Inter-religious dialogues; dialogues for young people of different demographic groups using photography

Moses John Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Moses John

Country/region:  South Sudan
Conflict: Civil war between North and South Sudan
Organisation: Organization for Nonviolence and Development (ONAD)
Field of work: Training in non-violence; workshops on trauma work; inter-religious dialogue between Muslims & Christians

Olga Karatch Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Olga Karatch

Country/region:  Belarus
Conflict: Hibrid wars, military and violence conflicts in Eastern Europe
Organisation: Nash Dom
Field of work: Democratisation, civil rights, human rights, poverty alleviation, politics, support for disadvantaged groups

Edgar Khachatryan Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Edgar Khachatryan

Country/region:  Armenia and the South Caucasus
Conflict: The Nagorny-Karabakh conflict, military conflicts with Azerbaijan for over 20 years and simmering conflicts in the Caucasus region
Organisation: NGO Peace Dialogue
Field of work: Human rights & democracy building, youth work, peace promotion measures, prevention of violence, changes to gender roles, work for women’s rights, gender-sensitive peace work, stabilisation and reconstruction

Dipujjal Khisa Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Dipujjal Khisa

Country/region: Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh
Conflict: Ethnic conflicts
Organisation: Maleya Foundation
Field of work: Indigenous Peoples Rights, Non-violent conflict transformation, Indigenous peoples’ self-determined development, Women empowerment.

Henry Ramirez Soler Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Henry Ramirez Soler

Country/region: Colombia
Conflict: Socio-political armed conflict
Organisation: Corporacion Claretiana Norman Perez Bello / PROCLADE INTERNACIONAL
Field of work: Human rights, peace education, political advocacy before the UN, mediation and accompaniment to victims, follow-up to peace agreements.

Liza Wilkinson Portrait Peacebuilder
Peacebuilders

Liza Wilkinson

Country/region: Northern Ireland
Conflict: Protestant & Catholic groups, peacebuilding in Pakistan, Balkans, Afghanistan and Sudan
Organisation: TIDES Trainings & Consultancy
Field of work: Dialogues, conflict resolution, peace with social justice training, family and community work