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Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Noam Shuster

Israel

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Ron Smith

USA

Greg Boyle

USA

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Carmen Campo Real

France

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Monica McWilliams

Ireland
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Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Anton Abele

Sweden

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Selline Korir

Kenya

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Forest Whitaker

USA

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Tyler Wolf

USA
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Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Dina Alami

Sweden

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Diana García

Colombia

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Marina Peter

Germany

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

César Díaz

Guatemala

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Bria Smith

USA

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden
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Eran Nissan

Israel

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

George Kohlrieser

USA

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Ines Daccord

Switzerland
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

César López

Colombia

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Madeline Rose

USA

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Rafael 

El Salvador

Michele Brandt

USA

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Judson Webb

USA

Valeria

Moldova

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Peace Begins With Me

Michelle Breslauer

USA
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Saba Temelso

Eritrea
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Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Carmen Campo Real

France

Roberta Ventura

Italy
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Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Conrad Hughes

South African

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Dany Diogo

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

La paix commence avec moi

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Luís Figo

Portugal
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Anil Soni

India

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

António Guterres

Portugal

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Maran Turner

USA

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland
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Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

António Guterres

Portugal

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Saype

France et Suisse

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Hacene Ouahmane

France
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Heba Aly

Canada

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Afrizo

Kenya

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Giulio Valente

Italy

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Sean Altshuler

USA

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Bana Alabed

Syria

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia
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Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Erum Hasan

Canada

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Taimani Emerald

USA

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Daniel Stein

USA

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni
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Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

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Anil Soni

India

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda
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Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France
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Hiba Qasas

Palestine

La paix commence avec moi

César López

Colombia

Afrizo

Kenya

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Saype

France et Suisse

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Jeremy Brickhill

Zimbabwe

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Jeremy Lack

USA - Switzerland

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Luís Figo

Portugal
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Forest Whitaker

USA

Heba Aly

Canada

Peace Begins With Me

Selline Korir

Kenya

Dany Diogo

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Carmen Campo Real

France

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Michelle Breslauer

USA
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland
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Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Greg Boyle

USA

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Diana García

Colombia

Madeline Rose

USA

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Deline Revend

Sweden

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Hajer Sharief

Libya

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Désirée McGraw

Canada
Xavier Dami

Xavier Dami

Switzerland

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Erum Hasan

Canada

Christian Picciolini

USA

George Kohlrieser

USA

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Sarabi

Kenya

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Daniel Stein

USA

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Valeria

Moldova

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Jeffrey Ige

Sweden

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Bana Alabed

Syria

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Francis Kariuki

Kenya
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Alaa Mejri

Switzerland - Tunisia
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Baaba Maal

Senegal
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Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Sean Altshuler

USA

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Natasha Latiff

Singapour
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Ron Smith

USA

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Séverin Yao Kouamé

Ivory Coast
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Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Noam Shuster

Israel

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Conrad Hughes

South African

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Gabriele Schlipf

Germany

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Tyler Wolf

USA

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Raed Al Saleh

Syria
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Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Sunanda Deshapriya

Sri Lanka

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Marina Peter

Germany

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada
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Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Maran Turner

USA

Bria Smith

USA

Michael Møller

Denmark

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Taimani Emerald

USA

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Judson Webb

USA
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Dina Alami

Sweden

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

António Guterres

Portugal

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Giulio Valente

Italy

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Helen Calle Lin

USA

César Díaz

Guatemala

Michele Brandt

USA

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea
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Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Rafael 

El Salvador

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

António Guterres

Portugal

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Vania Odelice Ineza

Rwanda

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Anton Abele

Sweden

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Carmen Campo Real

France

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

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