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Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

António Guterres

Portugal

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Dany Diogo

George Kohlrieser

USA

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Bana Alabed

Syria

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Selline Korir

Kenya

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Forest Whitaker

USA

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

La paix commence avec moi

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Maran Turner

USA

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Judson Webb

USA

Ron Smith

USA

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Madeline Rose

USA

Valeria

Moldova

César López

Colombia

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

António Guterres

Portugal

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Afrizo

Kenya

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Greg Boyle

USA

Luís Figo

Portugal

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Sean Altshuler

USA

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Rafael 

El Salvador
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Anton Abele

Sweden

Abbas Gullet

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Peace Begins With Me

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Kofi A. Annan

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

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Carmen Campo Real

France

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Saype

France et Suisse

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Carmen Campo Real

France

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

César Díaz

Guatemala

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Erum Hasan

Canada

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Giulio Valente

Italy

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Dina Alami

Sweden

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Conrad Hughes

South African

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Diana García

Colombia

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Noam Shuster

Israel

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Michele Brandt

USA

Heba Aly

Canada

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Daniel Stein

USA

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Bria Smith

USA

Marina Peter

Germany

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Taimani Emerald

USA

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Tyler Wolf

USA

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

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Giulio Valente

Italy

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Peace Begins With Me

Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Séverin Yao Kouamé

Ivory Coast

Tyler Wolf

USA

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Jeremy Brickhill

Zimbabwe

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Carmen Campo Real

France

Sean Altshuler

USA

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Daniel Stein

USA

Selline Korir

Kenya

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Deline Revend

Sweden

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Taimani Emerald

USA

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Jeffrey Ige

Sweden

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Madeline Rose

USA

Judson Webb

USA

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Renée Larivière

Switzerland
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

James Suah Shilue

Liberia
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Vania Odelice Ineza

Rwanda

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Forest Whitaker

USA
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Carmen Campo Real

France

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Christian Picciolini

USA

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Noam Shuster

Israel

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Saype

France based in Switzerland

António Guterres

Portugal

Heba Aly

Canada

Luís Figo

Portugal

Conrad Hughes

South African

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Sarabi

Kenya

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Sunanda Deshapriya

Sri Lanka

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

César Díaz

Guatemala

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Melanie Greenberg

United States
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Dany Diogo

Rafael 

El Salvador
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Valeria

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Maran Turner

USA

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

La paix commence avec moi

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Greg Boyle

USA

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Saype

France et Suisse

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Bana Alabed

Syria

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

António Guterres

Portugal

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Zarina Patel

Kenya

George Kohlrieser

USA

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Marina Peter

Germany

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Afrizo

Kenya

Bria Smith

USA

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Michael Møller

Denmark

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso
Alaa Mejri PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 UN International Day of Peace

Alaa Mejri

Switzerland - Tunisia

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Gabriele Schlipf

Germany

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Michele Brandt

USA

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Diana García

Colombia

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Erum Hasan

Canada

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Natasha Latiff

Singapour
Xavier Dami

Xavier Dami

Switzerland

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Jeremy Lack

USA - Switzerland

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Anton Abele

Sweden

César López

Colombia

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Ron Smith

USA

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Dina Alami

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

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

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