Since 2013, Priscyll has worked extensively in research and the NGO sector in the field of DDR, transitional justice, gender-based violence in armed conflicts and mine action. Particularly, in Colombia and Nepal, she has engaged with different stakeholders, such as children and adolescent victims of the armed conflict, DDR practitioners, men, women and queer (ex)-combatants, military and police personnels, public officials, and women and feminist grassroots organizations.

Priscyll’s research focuses on the political agency and participation of women and queer people that have joined non-state armed groups and the difficulties of navigating the transition to “civilian society” in the aftermath of peace deals. Within this scope, she has explored understudied areas of DDR, such as family ties, parenthood, youth agency, political militancy as well as embodied and emotional aspect of transitions from war-to-peace. Priscyll has also developed alternative forms of pedagogies and methods to work in complex settings and with different actors. She has extensively published in renowned peer-review journals in the field of DDR, and she is the co-author of the graphic novel Militancia feminista post-lucha armada de las farianas (2024) with Zulay Carolina Rueda.

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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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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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Frida is a political scientist with over a decade of experience working on peace and security in among other contexts Zimbabwe, Liberia, Colombia and Mozambique. She has experience working for civil society, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the United Nations. Additionally, she has through her role with the FBA worked closely with supporting the policy development of the EU and the OSCE.

Her most recent experience is from supporting security transitions, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) processes and reconciliation in Colombia and in Mozambique. Gender mainstreaming, the Women, Peace and Security agenda, SSR, DDR and training and capacity development constitute her key areas of expertise.

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She brings a development perspective to the often-securitized DDR and PRR approaches and guides UNDP to provide sustainable reintegration solutions for former members of armed forces and groups, their families and communities.

Glaucia brings over 20 years of experience in the UN system, of which 15 years with UNDP as a peacebuilding and development practitioner. She was part of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery from 2006 to 2014 and the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support from 2014 to 2018 and has since then been with the Crisis Bureau. Her one-the-ground technical advice and support has spanned across several countries and regions over these years – Burundi, Central African Republic, Colombia, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia/Aceh, Iraq, Niger, Nigeria, The Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda, Ukraine – and the Great Lakes and Lake Chad Basin regions and institutions.

Since 2018, Glaucia has provided dedicated technical assistance to the formulation of Prosecution, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (PRR) strategies within the framework of counterterrorism, with focus on community-based reintegration (in Iraq for families with perceived association with ISIL) and through regional approaches in the Lake Chad Basin countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria in response to the Boko Haram Crisis).

Glaucia has a Law Degree (1990) from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a PhD in International Relations with focus on Statebuilding/Peacebuilding (2005) from The Graduate Institute of International Studies, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Since 2016, Mario has served as Policy and Planning Officer with the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Section at the UN Headquarters in New York. His tasks include providing technical support and policy advise to mission and non-mission settings towards the design and implementation of DDR processes.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Brasilia – UnB (Brazil) and a master’s degree in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University School of Public and International Affairs (SIPA).

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