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Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Noam Shuster

Israel

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Sean Altshuler

USA

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

António Guterres

Portugal

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Giulio Valente

Italy

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Etenesh Tesfa

Ethiopia

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Jean Paul Mugiraneza

Rwanda

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina
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Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France
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Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Anton Abele

Sweden

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Nardos Tesfaw

Ethiopia

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Peace Begins With Me

Marina Peter

Germany

Selline Korir

Kenya

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa
Wasim Almasri - Allmep - PeaceTalks UN Geneva - International Day of Peace

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Maran Turner

USA

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Dina Alami

Sweden

Michele Brandt

USA

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Forest Whitaker

USA

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Bana Alabed

Syria

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Daniel Stein

USA

George Kohlrieser

USA

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Greg Boyle

USA

Carmen Campo Real

France

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Diana García

Colombia

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Ron Smith

USA

César López

Colombia

Claudia Meier

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Afrizo

Kenya

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Erum Hasan

Canada

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya
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Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Taimani Emerald

USA
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

César Díaz

Guatemala

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

La paix commence avec moi

Saype

France et Suisse

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Luís Figo

Portugal

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Madeline Rose

USA

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Tyler Wolf

USA

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Hacene Ouahmane

France
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Melanie Greenberg

United States
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Bria Smith

USA

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Rafael 

El Salvador
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Judson Webb

USA

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Emebet Woldetsdik

Ethiopia

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Haymanot Wagnew

Ethiopia

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Conrad Hughes

South African

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Heba Aly

Canada

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Dany Diogo

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Aida Elsayed Abdallah Elsayed

Sudan

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Judith Bird

United Kingdom
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Negusu Aklilu

Ethiopia

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Sarah Ntambwe Kyabu

Democratic Republic of Congo

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Valeria

Moldova

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Helen Calle Lin

USA
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Carmen Campo Real

France

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

António Guterres

Portugal

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

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Luís Figo

Portugal

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Daniel Stein

USA

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Afrizo

Kenya

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Saype

France et Suisse
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Greg Boyle

USA

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Bria Smith

USA

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Selline Korir

Kenya
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Michele Brandt

USA

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Etenesh Tesfa

Ethiopia

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Sunanda Deshapriya

Sri Lanka

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Emebet Woldetsdik

Ethiopia

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Marina Peter

Germany

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Haymanot Wagnew

Ethiopia

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Sean Altshuler

USA

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Jeremy Brickhill

Zimbabwe

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Christian Picciolini

USA

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Negusu Aklilu

Ethiopia

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Giulio Valente

Italy

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Antonio Dovizio

Italy
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Jeffrey Ige

Sweden

Judson Webb

USA

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Carmen Campo Real

France

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Jeremy Lack

USA - Switzerland

Conrad Hughes

South African

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Valeria

Moldova

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Nardos Tesfaw

Ethiopia

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Heba Aly

Canada

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

George Kohlrieser

USA

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Maran Turner

USA

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Forest Whitaker

USA

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

César Díaz

Guatemala

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Jean Paul Mugiraneza

Rwanda

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Peace Begins With Me

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Aida Elsayed Abdallah Elsayed

Sudan
Alaa Mejri PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 UN International Day of Peace

Alaa Mejri

Switzerland - Tunisia

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Carmen Campo Real

France

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Bana Alabed

Syria

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

António Guterres

Portugal
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Séverin Yao Kouamé

Ivory Coast

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Noam Shuster

Israel

Diana García

Colombia

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Taimani Emerald

USA

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Anton Abele

Sweden
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

La paix commence avec moi

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Michael Møller

Denmark

Madeline Rose

USA

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Sarah Ntambwe Kyabu

Democratic Republic of Congo

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia
Wasim Almasri - Allmep - PeaceTalks UN Geneva - International Day of Peace

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Vania Odelice Ineza

Rwanda

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Dany Diogo

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Dina Alami

Sweden

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Adrienne Clarkson

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Sarabi

Kenya

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Deline Revend

Sweden

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Gabriele Schlipf

Germany

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Rafael 

El Salvador

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Erum Hasan

Canada

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Tyler Wolf

USA

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Saype

France based in Switzerland

César López

Colombia

António Guterres

Portugal

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Ron Smith

USA

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden
Xavier Dami

Xavier Dami

Switzerland

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