Håvard Mokleiv Nygård
Dr. Håvard Mokleiv Nygård is Director of Knowledge and Evaluation at the Norwegian Agency for International Development (Norad). He comes from the position of Research Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Dr. Nygård was a member of a the Steering committee of the UN Statistical Commission ‘Praia Group on Governance Statistics’ and a […]
Charmaine Mae
Charmaine Mae, or fondly called “XX”, is a mother, a wife, a sister, a partner, an accompanier who was born in Marawi City and has lived all her life in Mindanao, Philippines. She is a peacebuilder and community-based worker who has been working with Balay Mindanaw Foundation, Inc. for 25 years. She began as a […]
Neila Feki
Ms. Feki has been the vice-president of Tunisia’s national counterterrorism commission, since its creation in March 2016. Among her activities within the CT Commission, she has contributed to the development of the Tunisian National Strategy against Radicalization and Terrorism (2016-2021). Ms. Feki is a magistrate of the third degree, she held various judicial positions including […]
Jean-Louis Romanet Perroux
Jean-Louis Romanet Perroux is a researcher and advisor on international cooperation and development, and the director of the North African Policy Initiative, an NGO that focuses on improving participatory governance and building the capacity of youth in North Africa. He has over 20 years of hands-on experience in program design and implementation, in training and coaching […]
Hamza Meddeb
Hamza Meddeb is a nonresident scholar at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on economic reform, political economy of conflicts, and border insecurity across the Middle East and North Africa. Meddeb is also assistant professor at the South Mediterranean University (SMU) in Tunis. Prior to that, Meddeb was a […]
Alissar Chaker
In September 2019, Alissar Chaker started as Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Tunisia. Previously, she held various management positions with UNDP in crisis and post-crisis and complex development contexts. She was Deputy Resident Representative in Honduras (2016- 2019), a country known for its high crime rate, during an acute […]
Tora Sagård
Tora Sagård is a Research Assistant at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). She graduated with a MA in political science from the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2019. Her thesis, which focused on ceasefires in civil war, won her an award for a high-quality thesis from the Faculty of Social Sciences at UiO. At […]
Henrik Urdal
Henrik Urdal (PhD, Political Science) is Director and Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He is past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peace Research, and a former Research Fellow with the International Security Program at Harvard Kennedy School (2011-2012). Urdal’s work on political demography has been published in leading international academic journals like […]
Hamsatu Allamin
Hamsatu Allamin is the Founder & ED of Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development is an educator, freelance writer, gender activist, human rights defender, and Peace Maker, She is creator of Network of CSOs for Peace, and the WPS Network as Voice of the Voiceless, as well as Social Networks of Victims of Disappearances and Survivors of […]
Morten Bøås
Morten Bøås is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He conducts fieldwork in Africa and the Middle East. His most recent books include Africa’s Insurgents: Navigating an Evolving Landscape (2017) and Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention: a Guide to Research in Closed and Violent Contexts (2020). Bøås is currently the […]
