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Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

César López

Colombia

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

César Díaz

Guatemala

Noam Shuster

Israel

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Diana García

Colombia

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Carmen Campo Real

France

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Judson Webb

USA

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Marina Peter

Germany

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Rafael 

El Salvador
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Carmen Campo Real

France
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Taimani Emerald

USA

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Forest Whitaker

USA

Daniel Stein

USA

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Heba Aly

Canada

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Dany Diogo

Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Negusu Aklilu

Ethiopia

Madeline Rose

USA

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Anton Abele

Sweden

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Sarah Ntambwe Kyabu

Democratic Republic of Congo

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Michele Brandt

USA

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Jean Paul Mugiraneza

Rwanda

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Ron Smith

USA

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Dina Alami

Sweden
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Emilia Bjuggren

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Greg Boyle

USA

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Emebet Woldetsdik

Ethiopia

Haymanot Wagnew

Ethiopia

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Etenesh Tesfa

Ethiopia
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Bria Smith

USA

Sean Altshuler

USA

Giulio Valente

Italy

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Luís Figo

Portugal

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Conrad Hughes

South African

Erum Hasan

Canada

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Saype

France et Suisse

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Bana Alabed

Syria

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Aida Elsayed Abdallah Elsayed

Sudan

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

La paix commence avec moi

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Afrizo

Kenya
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

George Kohlrieser

USA

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Valeria

Moldova
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

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

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Maran Turner

USA

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

António Guterres

Portugal

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Nardos Tesfaw

Ethiopia

Selline Korir

Kenya

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

James Suah Shilue

Liberia
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

António Guterres

Portugal
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Tyler Wolf

USA

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Peace Begins With Me

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Filter

Noa Gafni Slaney

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Madeline Rose

USA

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Helen Calle Lin

USA

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Conrad Hughes

South African

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Jürg Lauber

Suisse
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Luís Figo

Portugal

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Peace Begins With Me

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Elin Rombo

Sweden

George Kohlrieser

USA

Afrizo

Kenya

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Etenesh Tesfa

Ethiopia

Deline Revend

Sweden
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Bria Smith

USA

Vania Odelice Ineza

Rwanda

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Aida Elsayed Abdallah Elsayed

Sudan

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Ron Smith

USA

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Diana García

Colombia

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Linley Constant

Mauritius

La paix commence avec moi

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Hajer Sharief

Libya
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Tyler Wolf

USA

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Michele Brandt

USA

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Séverin Yao Kouamé

Ivory Coast

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Jeffrey Ige

Sweden

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Valeria

Moldova

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Michael Møller

Denmark

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Marina Peter

Germany

António Guterres

Portugal
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Saype

France et Suisse

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Negusu Aklilu

Ethiopia

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Judith Bird

United Kingdom
Xavier Dami

Xavier Dami

Switzerland

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

António Guterres

Portugal

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Jean Paul Mugiraneza

Rwanda

Bana Alabed

Syria

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Daniel Stein

USA

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

César López

Colombia

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Gabriele Schlipf

Germany

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Sean Altshuler

USA

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Selline Korir

Kenya

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Olof Skoog

Sweden
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Haymanot Wagnew

Ethiopia

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Maran Turner

USA

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Rafael 

El Salvador

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Forest Whitaker

USA

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Dina Alami

Sweden

Christian Picciolini

USA

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Judson Webb

USA

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Tatiana Valovaya

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

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland
Alaa Mejri PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 UN International Day of Peace

Alaa Mejri

Switzerland - Tunisia

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Giulio Valente

Italy

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Heba Aly

Canada

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Jeremy Lack

USA - Switzerland

Taimani Emerald

USA

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Noam Shuster

Israel

Carmen Campo Real

France

Dany Diogo

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Sarabi

Kenya

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

César Díaz

Guatemala

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Anton Abele

Sweden
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Greg Boyle

USA

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Randa Kassis

Syria - France
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Jeremy Brickhill

Zimbabwe

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Sarah Ntambwe Kyabu

Democratic Republic of Congo

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Nardos Tesfaw

Ethiopia

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Sunanda Deshapriya

Sri Lanka

Emebet Woldetsdik

Ethiopia

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Erum Hasan

Canada

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Carmen Campo Real

France

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

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