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Erum Hasan

Canada

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Greg Boyle

USA

Bana Alabed

Syria

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Daniel Stein

USA

Noam Shuster

Israel

Jean Paul Mugiraneza

Rwanda

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Afrizo

Kenya

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Diana García

Colombia

Etenesh Tesfa

Ethiopia

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Madeline Rose

USA

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Ron Smith

USA

António Guterres

Portugal

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

George Kohlrieser

USA

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Haymanot Wagnew

Ethiopia

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Bria Smith

USA

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Sarah Ntambwe Kyabu

Democratic Republic of Congo

Abbas Gullet

Kenya
Wasim Almasri - Allmep - PeaceTalks UN Geneva - International Day of Peace

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Carmen Campo Real

France

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Heba Aly

Canada

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Peace Begins With Me

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Adiba Qasim

Iraq
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Negusu Aklilu

Ethiopia

Giulio Valente

Italy

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Selline Korir

Kenya

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Nardos Tesfaw

Ethiopia

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Michele Brandt

USA

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

António Guterres

Portugal
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

César López

Colombia
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Forest Whitaker

USA

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Judson Webb

USA
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Ines Daccord

Switzerland
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Saype

France et Suisse

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Emebet Woldetsdik

Ethiopia

Maran Turner

USA

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Urban Ahlin

Sweden
Maged Alkholidy Yemen - Geneva PeaceTalks 2022 - UN - International Day of Peace

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Dany Diogo

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Conrad Hughes

South African

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

La paix commence avec moi

Sean Altshuler

USA

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

César Díaz

Guatemala

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Luís Figo

Portugal

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Anton Abele

Sweden

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Dina Alami

Sweden

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Carmen Campo Real

France

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Tyler Wolf

USA

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Taimani Emerald

USA

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Aida Elsayed Abdallah Elsayed

Sudan

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Roberta Ventura

Italy
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Rafael 

El Salvador

Marina Peter

Germany

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Valeria

Moldova

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Filter

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Michael Møller

Denmark

George Kohlrieser

USA
Alaa Mejri PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 UN International Day of Peace

Alaa Mejri

Switzerland - Tunisia

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Sam Ogwal

Uganda
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Deline Revend

Sweden

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Noam Shuster

Israel

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Dina Alami

Sweden

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland
Xavier Dami

Xavier Dami

Switzerland

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Jeremy Lack

USA - Switzerland

Linley Constant

Mauritius
Wasim Almasri - Allmep - PeaceTalks UN Geneva - International Day of Peace

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Anton Abele

Sweden

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

César Díaz

Guatemala

Conrad Hughes

South African

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Judson Webb

USA

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Peace Begins With Me

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Bana Alabed

Syria
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Luís Figo

Portugal

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Negusu Aklilu

Ethiopia

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Heba Aly

Canada

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Christian Picciolini

USA

Ron Smith

USA

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Karim Wasfi

Iraq
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Tyler Wolf

USA

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Jeffrey Ige

Sweden

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Madeline Rose

USA

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Bria Smith

USA

Dany Diogo

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Emebet Woldetsdik

Ethiopia

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

António Guterres

Portugal

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

António Guterres

Portugal
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Sean Altshuler

USA

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Selline Korir

Kenya

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Natasha Latiff

Singapour
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Greg Boyle

USA

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Marina Peter

Germany

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Rafael 

El Salvador

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

César López

Colombia

Sarabi

Kenya

Nardos Tesfaw

Ethiopia

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Erum Hasan

Canada

Aida Elsayed Abdallah Elsayed

Sudan

Carmen Campo Real

France

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Forest Whitaker

USA

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Jean Paul Mugiraneza

Rwanda

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Maran Turner

USA

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Valeria

Moldova

Antje Herrberg

Germany

La paix commence avec moi

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Michele Brandt

USA

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Diana García

Colombia

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Sarah Ntambwe Kyabu

Democratic Republic of Congo

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Séverin Yao Kouamé

Ivory Coast

Vania Odelice Ineza

Rwanda

Afrizo

Kenya

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Etenesh Tesfa

Ethiopia

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Taimani Emerald

USA

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon
Maged Alkholidy Yemen - Geneva PeaceTalks 2022 - UN - International Day of Peace

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Saype

France et Suisse

Gabriele Schlipf

Germany

Daniel Stein

USA

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Haymanot Wagnew

Ethiopia

Jeremy Brickhill

Zimbabwe
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Carmen Campo Real

France

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Giulio Valente

Italy

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Sunanda Deshapriya

Sri Lanka

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

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