Her work focuses on the long-term reintegration of female and child ex-combatants, including gendered barriers to recognition, eligibility, social acceptance, political participation and post-war livelihoods. She has led participatory research and filmmaking processes with women ex-combatants in Aceh/Indonesia, Burundi, Colombia, Mindanao/Philippines, Nepal and Uganda, producing policy-facing analysis, public engagement and two participatory documentaries on women’s post-conflict experiences. Her PhD at the London School of Economics examined international actors’ engagement with child soldiering in Sierra Leone and Myanmar. She has designed and delivered trainings, university teaching and participatory learning processes on gender, peacebuilding, DDR/reintegration and participatory methods.

Evelyn combines academic research with training, facilitation, feminist MEL and policy-oriented learning. She has worked with organisations including the Berghof Foundation, LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, Agency for Peacebuilding, Justice Rapid Response, Impunity Watch, GCERF and Women Mediators across the Commonwealth.

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Currently, he serves as a Demobilization Advisor supporting Ethiopia’s National DDR Programme under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the Ethiopian National Rehabilitation Commission (NRC). Since the signing of the Pretoria Peace Agreement in November 2022, Colonel Gosaye has been actively engaged in implementing Ethiopia’s national DDR process, contributing to the successful demobilization and reintegration of more than 87,000 ex-combatants across Tigray and other regions—a public contribution recognized through national media and partner reports.

Gosaye Tilahun Zeleke is highly experienced in the implementation of the United Nations Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Standards (IDDRS), including rehabilitation programming, psychosocial support, civic training systems, and WAM. Professionally, he specializes in bridging high-level strategic coordination with federal institutions, UN agencies, and international partners.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Peace and Security Studies and a Master’s Degree in Business Leadership, both from Addis Ababa University.

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He has more than ten years of experience designing, leading, managing, and implementing humanitarian, peace, and security nexus programs that promote stability, community resilience, and peace in conflict-affected countries. From 2016 to 2023, Omar worked with IOM in both Somalia and South Sudan, implementing peace and security programs. Omar’s experience included Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR); Security Sector Reform (SSR); Youth Peace & Security (YPS); Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism (PCVE); community-oriented policing; migration and border management.

In 2019, with IOM, Omar was among the team leading the pioneering DDR programme, focusing on the rehabilitation and reintegration of women formerly associated with armed groups in Somalia. In South Sudan, he led the community policing portfolio, fostering collaboration between police and communities in the border areas. In his current role, with the United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission (UNTMIS) in Somalia, he made significant contributions to the Somalia national Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism (PCVE) strategy (2024-2027).

His academic achievements include an MSc in Security Sector Management (SSM) from Cranfield University, UK, and an MA in Global Security and Strategy at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK.

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His experience concentrates on programs, projects, policies, and portfolios related to peacebuilding, conflict transformation, violent extremism, electoral violence, climate security, energy finance, and the involvement of marginalized communities through art, sports, and games across the Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa regions.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Governance and Masters of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies and Master of Art in Gender Studies and Master of Science in Governance, Peace and Security and a PhD candidate in Climate Change and Sustainability. Kidou has moreover undertaken specialized trainings in Environmental Quality and Monitoring and Analysis, Environmental Management, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Technology Applications, Energy Economics, Energy Systems and Environmental Impact, Legal Studies, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Strategic Management, and Mental Health.

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Paul is a Peace, Security and Justice professional with extensive experience in policy communication, research, design and implementation of Peace building, Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR), Stabilisation, Security Governance and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programmes. He has facilitated several DDR and Advanced Stabilisation courses across Peacekeeping Training Centres in Africa. He was lead expert on the team that convened the First DDR National Dialogue in Nigeria in collaboration with Office of the National Security Adviser to the President of Nigeria. Paul is Country Director International Alert, Nigeria. Prior to joining International Alert, he was Conflict Adviser at the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Nigeria, DDR Expert-EU Africa Peace Facility, Community Management Specialist, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and taught Peace and Security Studies and conducted ground breaking research at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Paul has supported several Military Operations such as the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), Chad and International Organizations working in conflict contexts in a range of countries including Somalia, North-East-Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Sierra-Leone and Liberia. He strengthened the policy and institutional capacity of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and the Defector Rehabilitation Programme in Somalia on Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) and was part of the design of Strategic Communication Actions and Effects Framework to promote defections in Somalia.

Paul has a Masters Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Ibadan, is an Alumnus of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and has attended several professional development courses across the world.

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As a political scientist, Vilhelm has experience in peace and security initiatives across various countries, including Mozambique, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Nigeria. He has worked on disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR) processes in multiple settings. At FBA, he supports different initiatives such as capacity building, advising and training. His recent work includes supporting DDR and the combat against violent extremism in Mozambique, as well as working with FBA’s support to veteran reintegration in Ukraine.

Previously, Vilhelm served as a Desk Officer at the Embassy of Sweden in Maputo, Mozambique. He holds a Master of Science in Politics from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Bachelor’s degree in Politics from Lund University.

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Simbarashe is also a research associate at Stellenbosch University in the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. His research interests collectively contribute to an overarching theme of youth subjectivities and how these intersect in complex ways with various aspects of everyday life such as politics, livelihoods, and transitions. Simbarashe is also interested in questions around informality, religiosity, displacement, youth political expressions in spaces of protracted economic and political crisis.

Simbarashe was awarded the African Peacebuilding Network Research Fellowship (2021-2022) by the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC), the African Humanities Programme Fellowship, from the American Learned Societies, Carnegie Corporation, New York, USA. Simbarashe’s recent publications are in African Affairs, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, African Security Review, African Identities, Political Psychology and the Extractive Industries and Society among other journals.

Simbarashe also serves as an editorial board member of Anthropology Southern Africa and the journal of Religion and Development.

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Mark has a focus on identifying business opportunities, assessing ESG (environmental, social and governance) risks, responsible business conduct, value chain analysis, Disarmament, Demobilization & Reintegration (DDR), conflict analysis, conflict-sensitivity and security & human rights. He has worked worldwide in many fragile settings, including Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Colombia, Iraq, Lebanon and Pakistan.

Over the last 15 years, Mark has focused on action-oriented research and consultancy work on how to strengthen investors’ and companies’ strategies and operational capacity to work in a responsible way in fragile settings, as well as to improve value chains and support SMEs, Internally Displaced Persons, refugees and former combatants, with the ultimate goal to contribute to equitable development and peace building. He has worked in various capacities in projects financed by multinational companies, universities, NGOs (including IDH, SOMO, Oxfam Novib, International Alert, MercyCorps), multilateral institutions (including World Bank Group/IFC, UNDP, UNHCR, IOM, ITC), the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish Folke Bernadotte Academy and the European Union.

In 2017, Mark founded Bureau Van Dorp, a consultancy firm specializing in responsible business and private sector development in emerging markets and fragile and conflict-affected settings, working in partnership with a network of international and local consultants. Since 2022, Mark is also a Senior Associate at ODI and a Research Associate at LSE IDEAS, the foreign think tank of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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She is also a Research Fellow at the Research on International Policy Implementation Lab, a Senior Associate (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Africa Program, and a Fellow with the George Washington University Program on Extremism.

In 2021, Hilary graduated from Yale University with a PhD in Political Science. In 2015, Hilary graduated with an MA in International Relations, with a focus on African Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS. Her research is at the intersection of security, gender, and governance, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

Her work has been published in International Security, Security Studies, Stability, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and African Studies Review.

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Linnéa previously worked as senior researcher at the Folke Bernadotte Academy and the Nordic Africa Institute. Prior to that she was a senior lecturer of Peace and Development Studies at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University. She was promoted to Associate Professor of Peace and Development Studies in February 2018. She earned her PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.

Linnéa’s research has been about international security, social and practice theories, critical peacebuilding, global militarism, and empirical field-based contributions to international interventionism. She has also recently investigated the agency of traditional authority structures and local community actors in altering and negotiating the DDR and P/CVE dimensions of international interventions in Somalia.

As part of an ongoing data collection project, she co-authors a systematic study on ’social reintegration’: community determinants of successful reintegration of former al-Shabaab combatants in South-Central Somalia. She has closely followed African peacekeeping during over a decade.

Linnéa is a co-investigator in the research project PROTEX.

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