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Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Linley Constant

Mauritius

António Guterres

Portugal

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Selline Korir

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

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Daniel Stein

USA

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Bana Alabed

Syria
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Noam Shuster

Israel

Carmen Campo Real

France

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Diana García

Colombia
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Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Tyler Wolf

USA

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Saype

France et Suisse

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Carmen Campo Real

France

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Judson Webb

USA

Luís Figo

Portugal

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Urban Ahlin

Sweden
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Roberta Jamieson

Canada
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Erum Hasan

Canada

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Maran Turner

USA

Bria Smith

USA
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Madeline Rose

USA

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Greg Boyle

USA

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Dany Diogo

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Peace Begins With Me

Sean Altshuler

USA

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Conrad Hughes

South African

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

César López

Colombia

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Melanie Greenberg

United States
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Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Rafael 

El Salvador

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Abbas Gullet

Kenya
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Ikal Angelei

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Pauline Bend

Senegal

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

La paix commence avec moi

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

George Kohlrieser

USA

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Michele Brandt

USA

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Ron Smith

USA

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Heba Aly

Canada

Valeria

Moldova

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Dina Alami

Sweden

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Anton Abele

Sweden

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Marina Peter

Germany

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

César Díaz

Guatemala

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Afrizo

Kenya
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Taimani Emerald

USA

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

António Guterres

Portugal

Forest Whitaker

USA

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Giulio Valente

Italy

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

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Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Bana Alabed

Syria

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Sarabi

Kenya

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Erum Hasan

Canada

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Saype

France et Suisse

Jeremy Lack

USA - Switzerland

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Valeria

Moldova

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Judson Webb

USA

Christian Picciolini

USA

Jeffrey Ige

Sweden

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Dina Alami

Sweden

César Díaz

Guatemala

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Heba Aly

Canada

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Afrizo

Kenya

Sunanda Deshapriya

Sri Lanka

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Taimani Emerald

USA

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Carmen Campo Real

France

Giulio Valente

Italy

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Diana García

Colombia

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Madeline Rose

USA

Noam Shuster

Israel

Conrad Hughes

South African

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Maran Turner

USA

Marina Peter

Germany

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Michele Brandt

USA

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Michael Møller

Denmark

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Vania Odelice Ineza

Rwanda

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Jan Eliasson

Sweden
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Anton Abele

Sweden

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Luís Figo

Portugal

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Mireille Widmer

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Jeremy Brickhill

Zimbabwe

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Carmen Campo Real

France

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Renée Larivière

Switzerland
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

César López

Colombia

Bria Smith

USA

Adiba Qasim

Iraq
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Peace Begins With Me

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Sean Altshuler

USA

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada
Alaa Mejri PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 UN International Day of Peace

Alaa Mejri

Switzerland - Tunisia

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Deline Revend

Sweden

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom
Xavier Dami

Xavier Dami

Switzerland

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Roberta Ventura

Italy

João Boavida

Timor-Leste
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Joseph Semafara

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

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Greg Boyle

USA

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Forest Whitaker

USA

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Séverin Yao Kouamé

Ivory Coast

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

António Guterres

Portugal

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Gabriele Schlipf

Germany

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Tyler Wolf

USA

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

La paix commence avec moi

Dany Diogo

PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

António Guterres

Portugal

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Susan Guerra

Switzerland
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Daniel Stein

USA

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Ron Smith

USA
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Selline Korir

Kenya

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

George Kohlrieser

USA

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Rafael 

El Salvador

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

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