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Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

César Díaz

Guatemala

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Carmen Campo Real

France

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Valeria

Moldova

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Bria Smith

USA

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Madeline Rose

USA

Maran Turner

USA

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Tyler Wolf

USA

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Saype

France et Suisse

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Rim Turkmani

Syria

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

António Guterres

Portugal
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Peace Begins With Me

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada
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Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire
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Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Carmen Campo Real

France

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Randa Kassis

Syria - France
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Marina Peter

Germany

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Erum Hasan

Canada

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Ron Smith

USA

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Daniel Stein

USA
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Dina Alami

Sweden

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

George Kohlrieser

USA

Ngoni Mugwisi

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Taimani Emerald

USA

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Michele Brandt

USA

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Noam Shuster

Israel

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Diana García

Colombia

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Forest Whitaker

USA

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Ines Daccord

Switzerland
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Conrad Hughes

South African

Greg Boyle

USA

Rafael 

El Salvador

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

César López

Colombia
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Sean Altshuler

USA

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Luís Figo

Portugal

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Anton Abele

Sweden

La paix commence avec moi

Afrizo

Kenya

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Dany Diogo

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Saba Temelso

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

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Giulio Valente

Italy

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Judson Webb

USA

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Selline Korir

Kenya

Heba Aly

Canada

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Bana Alabed

Syria

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

António Guterres

Portugal

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Raed Al Saleh

Syria
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Taimani Emerald

USA

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Hacene Ouahmane

France
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Jeffrey Ige

Sweden

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Peace Begins With Me

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Gabriele Schlipf

Germany

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Kjersti Webb

Sweden
Alaa Mejri PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 UN International Day of Peace

Alaa Mejri

Switzerland - Tunisia

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Christian Picciolini

USA

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Diana García

Colombia

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Séverin Yao Kouamé

Ivory Coast

George Kohlrieser

USA

Carmen Campo Real

France

Rafael 

El Salvador

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Giulio Valente

Italy

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Heba Aly

Canada

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Ron Smith

USA

Dina Alami

Sweden

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

António Guterres

Portugal

Judson Webb

USA

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Sarabi

Kenya

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Conrad Hughes

South African

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Sean Altshuler

USA

César López

Colombia

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Vania Odelice Ineza

Rwanda

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Forest Whitaker

USA

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Valeria

Moldova

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Désirée McGraw

Canada
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Randa Kassis

Syria - France
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

César Díaz

Guatemala

Dany Diogo

Luís Figo

Portugal

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Saype

France et Suisse

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Carmen Campo Real

France

Adam Tensta

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

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Judith Bird

United Kingdom
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Michael Møller

Denmark

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Sunanda Deshapriya

Sri Lanka

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Bana Alabed

Syria

Noam Shuster

Israel

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Anton Abele

Sweden

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Bria Smith

USA

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

António Guterres

Portugal

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Jeremy Brickhill

Zimbabwe

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Deline Revend

Sweden

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Afrizo

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Greg Boyle

USA

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Tyler Wolf

USA

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Melanie Greenberg

United States

João Boavida

Timor-Leste
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Madeline Rose

USA

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Maran Turner

USA
Xavier Dami

Xavier Dami

Switzerland

Selline Korir

Kenya

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Jeremy Lack

USA - Switzerland

Michele Brandt

USA

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Marina Peter

Germany

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

La paix commence avec moi

Daniel Stein

USA

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Erum Hasan

Canada

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

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