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Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Selline Korir

Kenya

Afrizo

Kenya

Sean Altshuler

USA

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Forest Whitaker

USA

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Carmen Campo Real

France

Tyler Wolf

USA

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

César Díaz

Guatemala

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Zarina Patel

Kenya

César López

Colombia

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Dany Diogo

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Natasha Latiff

Singapore
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Saba Temelso

Eritrea
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Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Rafael 

El Salvador
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Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Ron Smith

USA

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco
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Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Saype

France et Suisse

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Peter Adams

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Natasha Latiff

Singapour
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Greg Boyle

USA

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Giulio Valente

Italy

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Antje Herrberg

Germany
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Luís Figo

Portugal

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Judson Webb

USA

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Valeria

Moldova

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Conrad Hughes

South African

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Carmen Campo Real

France

George Kohlrieser

USA

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Melanie Greenberg

United States
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Anton Abele

Sweden

Bria Smith

USA

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

La paix commence avec moi

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Maran Turner

USA

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Taimani Emerald

USA

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Daniel Stein

USA

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Michele Brandt

USA

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Marina Peter

Germany

Diana García

Colombia

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Bana Alabed

Syria

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire
Wasim Almasri - Allmep - PeaceTalks UN Geneva - International Day of Peace

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Adam Tensta

Sweden
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Susan Guerra

Switzerland
PeaceTalks_KareemGomersall

Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Dina Alami

Sweden

Erum Hasan

Canada

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Peace Begins With Me

António Guterres

Portugal

António Guterres

Portugal

Heba Aly

Canada

Noam Shuster

Israel

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Madeline Rose

USA

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

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Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Diana García

Colombia

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Sarabi

Kenya

Greg Boyle

USA
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Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya
PeaceTalks_Yves Daccord

Yves Daccord

Switzerland
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Ron Smith

USA

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Hajer Sharief

Libya

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Claudia Meier

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Afrizo

Kenya

Noam Shuster

Israel

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Taimani Emerald

USA

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France
PeaceTalks_Lena Dobrowolska

Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

George Kohlrieser

USA

António Guterres

Portugal

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Vania Odelice Ineza

Rwanda

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Giulio Valente

Italy

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Bria Smith

USA

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Michele Brandt

USA

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Rafael 

El Salvador

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Tyler Wolf

USA

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America
Xavier Dami

Xavier Dami

Switzerland

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Jeffrey Ige

Sweden

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Natasha Latiff

Singapour
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Jeremy Lack

USA - Switzerland

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Saype

France et Suisse

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Valeria

Moldova

Elin Rombo

Sweden
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Madeline Rose

USA

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Gabriele Schlipf

Germany

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

António Guterres

Portugal

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Erum Hasan

Canada

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Carmen Campo Real

France

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

La paix commence avec moi

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Maran Turner

USA

Dany Diogo

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Sean Altshuler

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

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

César López

Colombia

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Christian Picciolini

USA

César Díaz

Guatemala

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda
Alaa Mejri PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 UN International Day of Peace

Alaa Mejri

Switzerland - Tunisia

Peace Begins With Me

Shahd Hammou

Sudan
PeaceTalks_Anil Soni

Anil Soni

India

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Carmen Campo Real

France

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Conrad Hughes

South African

Judson Webb

USA

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Forest Whitaker

USA

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Marina Peter

Germany

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Sunanda Deshapriya

Sri Lanka

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Séverin Yao Kouamé

Ivory Coast

Jeremy Brickhill

Zimbabwe

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Dina Alami

Sweden

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Deline Revend

Sweden

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Anton Abele

Sweden

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Judith Bird

United Kingdom
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Heba Aly

Canada

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Michael Møller

Denmark

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland
PeaceTalks_Hiba Qasas

Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Luís Figo

Portugal

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Selline Korir

Kenya

Bana Alabed

Syria

Daniel Stein

USA

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

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