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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Her professional work experiences include four years of managing army demobilization and reintegration programs in Ethiopia, four years of managing regional development programs in Ethiopia with Action Aid International, and more than 15 years of coordinating the implementation of the Africa Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) in the Horn of Africa with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).

Notable professional achievements include successful implementation of the demobilization and reintegration of ex-soldier’s funded by the World Bank, and managing the establishment of the Regional Mediation Support Unit, and the Regional Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development program within IGAD.

She holds two Masters Degrees, including an MA in International Relations, and an MA in “Managing Peace and Security in Africa”, both from Addis Ababa University. Legawork additionally has several international diplomas including in “leadership and development studies” from Indian Institute of Development Studies, India, and “Peace and security studies in Africa” from Uppsala University, Sweden.

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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.

To read more about Mark van Dorp, kindly visit: http://bureauvandorp.nl/

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He also serves as a commissioner with the high-level National Planning Commission (Presidency of the Republic of South Africa) where he chairs the Commission’s Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Task Team. Between 2012 and 2020 he was the Director of the Safety and Violence Initiative at the University of Cape Town. Prior to this he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (2006-2012), and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution (2000-2005).

He is a National Research Foundation rated researcher and has undertaken research and published on crime and violence reduction, urban safety, policing and peace-building issues in Africa for more than 25 years. He has worked with numerous governments and various United Nations agencies on peace and security issues.

Dr. Lamb holds a Ph.D. in Criminology and a master’s degree in International and Comparative Politics from UCT.

To read more about Guy Lamb, kindly visit: https://www.sun.ac.za/politicalscience/people/academic/dr-guy-lamb/

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Her primary research interest is to understand the protective processes that contribute to risk and resilience in the mental health and development of children and adolescents facing adversity in a variety of cultures and settings. Dr. Betancourt has led initiatives to adapt and test evidence-based behavioral and parenting interventions for children and families facing adversity; she additionally focuses on strategies for scaling out these interventions using implementation science approaches.

She is Principal Investigator of an intergenerational study of war/prospective longitudinal study of war-affected youth in Sierra Leone, a scale-up Family Strengthening Intervention for children and families in Rwanda, and community-based participatory research on prevention of emotional and behavioral problems in refugee children and adolescents resettled in the U.S.

To read more about Theresa Betancourt, kindly visit: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/ssw/sites/research-program-on-children-and-adversity.html

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Bloom conducts research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia and speaks eight languages. She is the author of six books and over 80 articles on violent extremism including Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (Columbia 2005), Bombshell: Women and Terror (University of Pennsylvania 2011), Small Arms: Children and Terror (Cornell 2019) and Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon with Sophia Moskalenko (Stanford 2021). Her next book, Veiled Threats: Women and Jihad in expected in 2024 with Cornell University Press. 

Bloom was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and has held research or teaching positions at Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, and McGill Universities. She advises national and international human rights organizations and serves on the Counter-Radicalization working group of the Anti-Defamation League, the UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (UNCTED), and on the board of Women Without Borders.

Bloom has a PhD in political science from Columbia University, Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and Bachelors in Russian, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from McGill University.

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Since 2010 he is a consultant providing analysis, management and advisory services to international organizations, governments and non-governmental organizations. From 2003 to 2010 he was Senior Social Development Specialist with the World Bank; from 2005 based in Kampala, Uganda. Before joining the World Bank, he worked among others as Project Leader for Demobilization and Peace-building at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) (1994-2003) and in various positions with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (1987-93).

Kees has published and lectured widely on various aspects of post-war recovery, particularly the demobilization and reintegration of former combatants. Over the years Kees has worked in many African countries, such as Burundi, Eritrea, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda, and also in Asian countries, such as Afghanistan, Nepal and Solomon Islands.

To read more about Kees Kingma, kindly visit: https://www.keeskingma.eu/

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She has more than 30 years of experience in the field of child protection in emergencies mainly in Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. She  has worked with UNICEF and Save the Children for many years.  Fatuma has led the development and implementation of the programmes the release and reintegration of children associated with armed forces and armed groups in Liberia, South Sudan, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Philippines, Iraq, Syria and Nigeria. 

Fatuma leads/facilitates child protection courses at the International Peace Support Training Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. She is associated with Transition International (TI), a Netherlands based consulting agency and often facilitates reintegration courses that TI organizes jointly with the Barcelona International Peace Centre in Barcelona. She has also facilitated sessions on child reintegration during courses organized by the Folke Bernadotte Academy.  

Fatuma has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, a bachelor’s degree in Arts and Diplomas in Education and Social Work. She is a member of the  International Association of Facilitators.

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Khaled has accumulated an expertise in supporting national stakeholders to design and implement complex DDR and CVR programs that had led to significant peace consolidation. As a senior staff of UN Peacekeeping operations, and given his background as a professional diplomat with the government of Egypt, Khaled was a pioneer in negotiating sensitive Security Council mandates on DDR, CVR and SSR and other stabilization measures with national authorities both at the civilian and the military levels to ensure a transparent, inclusive, gender and human rights based processes that would lead to effective DDR processes and programs.

He has been praised for his innovative approaches and some of the programs he conceived have been considered as an added value to international Best Practice. He also played a strategic role in providing political and security advice to UN senior leadership including DPO, UNCT and UN Humanitarian country teams (HCT) on DDR, CVR and SSR issues and their impact on the overall mandated objectives of the UN particularly in Protection of Civilians, Restoration of State Authority and supporting complex and participatory political processes. Khaled has also played a crucial role in advocacy and resource mobilization given his long experiences in coordinating multiple DDR stakeholders both at national and international levels.

Khaled worked in several countries in the African continent, such Sudan, South Sudan, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central African Republic (CAR). He also served in other conflict-affected settings such as Lybia and Yemen. He is currently the Principal Coordinator of the Stabilization Support Unit in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DRC.

Khaled is fully bilingual (English- French). His mother tongue is Arabic and he is also fluent in Italian.

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He joined the United Nations (UN) system in May 2000, and have since worked in fragile post conflict and politically sensitive settings with UNDPKO (UNOCI, MUNSCO and MINUSCA), UNDP and UN ILO in Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), Child protection, Human Rights, Community Violence Reduction and Security Sector Reform (SSR) in DRC, Côte d’Ivoire and CAR, including cross-border issues in Chad, Sudan, Mali and Liberia in addition to field complex surveys (UNICEF) and humanitarian work (WVI).

Dr. Ntanga holds master’s Degrees in Rural Development, in Labour Economy and a PhD in Development Economics respectively from Institut Supérieur de Déveleppement Rural (ISDR) Tshibashi, (DRC), Université Toulouse (France) and Université Alassane Ouattara (Ivory Coast). In addition, he is a passionate University Associate Professor, teaching various courses including Community and Rural development and related subjects.

He has (co) authored several books and articles available online, including the Reducing Community Violence in the Central African Republic – The Case of Bria | Small Wars Journal with Dr. Robert MUGGAH.

To read more about Jean de Dieu Desire Ntanga Ntita and the work of MINUSCA, kindly visit: https://minusca.unmissions.org/en

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