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Hajer Sharief

Libya
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Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia
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Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Sarah Ntambwe Kyabu

Democratic Republic of Congo

Conrad Hughes

South African

Carmen Campo Real

France

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Madeline Rose

USA

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Francis Kariuki

Kenya

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Rim Turkmani

Syria
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Judith Bird

United Kingdom

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire
Maged Alkholidy Yemen - Geneva PeaceTalks 2022 - UN - International Day of Peace

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Negusu Aklilu

Ethiopia

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Sean Altshuler

USA

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia
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Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Giulio Valente

Italy

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Marina Peter

Germany

Rafael 

El Salvador

Christopher Vakkur

USA - Switzerland

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Saype

France et Suisse

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Diana García

Colombia

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

Erum Hasan

Canada

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan
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Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Heba Aly

Canada

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia
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Anil Soni

India

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Yusuf Hassan

Kenya
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Anton Abele

Sweden

Ron Smith

USA

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Bria Smith

USA

Judson Webb

USA
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Dina Alami

Sweden

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Elin Rombo

Sweden
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

António Guterres

Portugal

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

António Guterres

Portugal

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

La paix commence avec moi

Michele Brandt

USA

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Luís Figo

Portugal

Carmen Campo Real

France

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie
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Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Dany Diogo

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Taimani Emerald

USA

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Noam Shuster

Israel

Forest Whitaker

USA

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Tyler Wolf

USA

César Díaz

Guatemala

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

César López

Colombia

Jean Paul Mugiraneza

Rwanda

Greg Boyle

USA

Selline Korir

Kenya
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

George Kohlrieser

USA

Valeria

Moldova

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Maran Turner

USA

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Afrizo

Kenya

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Bana Alabed

Syria

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Ines Daccord

Switzerland
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland
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Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Etenesh Tesfa

Ethiopia

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Pauline Bend

Senegal

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Daniel Stein

USA

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

Peace Begins With Me

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Yusuf Hassan

Kenya
Ann Marie Orler

Ann-Marie Orler

Sweden

Kjersti Webb

Sweden

Sihem Bensedrine

Tunisia

Claudia Meier

Switzerland

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos

Poland

César Díaz

Guatemala

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Saype

France based in Switzerland

Valeria

Moldova
Ibaa Abusin Sudan PeaceTalks Speaker Geneva 2022

Ibaa Abusin

Sudan

Nicolas Witschard

Switzerland

Roméo Dallaire

Canada

Jan Eliasson

Sweden

César López

Colombia

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

United States of America

Jean “Plantu” Plantureux

France
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Kareem Gomersall

Egypt - Australia

Siavosh Derakhti

Sweden - Iran

Aya Mohammed Abdullah

Iraq

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Désirée McGraw

Canada

Maiwen Ngalueth

South Sudan

George Kohlrieser

USA

Muthoni Ngure

Kenya

Raed Al Saleh

Syria

Jean Paul Mugiraneza

Rwanda

Adrienne Clarkson

Canada

Alexia Bonato

Switzerland

Antje Herrberg

Germany

Estelle Baroung Hughes

Cameroon

Sarah Ntambwe Kyabu

Democratic Republic of Congo

Peace Begins With Me

Erum Hasan

Canada

Dennis McNamara

New Zealand

Douce Namwezi N’Ibamba

DRC

Anupah Makoond

Mauritius
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Anil Soni

India

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Monika Hauser

Switzerland - Italy

Tatiana Valovaya

Russie

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Isabelle Zakman

Switzerland

Helen Calle Lin

USA

Christopher Vakkur

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

Maged Al-kholidy

Yemen

Dr. Kaganda Mulume-oderhwa

DRC

Nik Dahlstrom

Sweden

Dr James Smith

Royaume-Uni

Gabriele Schlipf

Germany

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Canada

Lukrecija Urnevičiūtė

Lithuania

Peter Adams

United Kingdom

Boris Kone

Côte d'ivoire
Amad Mian co-founder of Dastaangoi

Amad Mian

Canada - Pakistan

Etenesh Tesfa

Ethiopia
Baaba Maal Peace Talks 2021

Baaba Maal

Senegal

Ali Abu Awwad

Palestine

Alexandra Pascalidou

Sweden - Greece

Daniel Clements

United Kingdom

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalie

Carmen Campo Real

France

Alaa Murabit

Canada - Libya

Mimoun Berrissoun

Germany - Morocco

Roberta Jamieson

Canada

Itonde Kakoma

United States of America

Andrew Brookes

United Kingdom

Jeffrey Ige

Sweden

Ruth Ibegbuna

United Kingdom - Nigeria

Melanie Greenberg

United States

Ines Daccord

Switzerland

Doris Barreto

Venezuela

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

La paix commence avec moi

Hyung Joon Won

South Korea

Carmen Campo Real

France

Judson Webb

USA

Noa Gafni Slaney

USA - Israel

Jürg Lauber

Switzerland

Natasha Latiff

Singapore

Alicia Sanders-Zakre

Les États-Unis

Qhayiya Mudau

South Africa

Dr James Smith

United Kingdom

Taimani Emerald

USA

Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Ahmed Labnouj

Morocco

Poet Zakariel

Côte d'ivoire

António Guterres

Portugal

Fatima Al Ansar

Mali

Giovanna Mingarelli

Canada

Sidonia Gabriel

Switzerland
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Hiba Qasas

Palestine

Daniel Mpilo Richards

South Africa
Alaa Mejri PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 UN International Day of Peace

Alaa Mejri

Switzerland - Tunisia

Tomas Amanuel

Sweden - Eritrea

Conrad Hughes

Afrique du Sud

LaGaylia Frazier

USA - Sweden

Kofi A. Annan

Ghana

Shahd Hammou

Sudan

Christian Picciolini

USA

Hacene Ouahmane

France

Mireille Widmer

Switzerland

Bernardo Arévalo de León

Guatemala

Teo Ormond-Skeaping

United Kingdom

Tatiana Valovaya

Russia
Tamara Cespedes

Tamara Cespedes

France

Mehra Rimer

Switzerland

Abbas Gullet

Kenya

Nilofar Ayoubi

Afghanistan

Ariane Inkesha

Rwanda

Bana Alabed

Syria

Greg Boyle

USA

Séverin Yao Kouamé

Ivory Coast

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Palestine
Xavier Dami

Xavier Dami

Switzerland

Antonio Dovizio

Italy

Zakaria El Baba

Lebanon

Michèle Gnokilé

Côte d'ivoire

Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba

Guinea

Kouassi Ange Aristide Molou

Côte d'ivoire

Zarina Patel

Kenya

Negusu Aklilu

Ethiopia

Issouf Ouattara

Côte d'ivoire

Ebba Åkerman

Sweden

António Guterres

Portugal

Noëlla Coursaris

Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Switzerland

Léa Narjoud

France - Colombia

Rafael 

El Salvador

Tareke Bhrane

Eritrea - Italy

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Hédi Fried

Sweden - Romania

Selline Korir

Kenya

Jeremy Lack

USA - Switzerland

Sarabi

Kenya

Fatima Zaman

United Kingdom - Bangladesh

Maran Turner

USA

Rim Turkmani

Syria

Madeline Rose

USA

Karim Wasfi

Iraq

Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan

Kenya

Joseph Semafara

Rwanda

Darius Gishoma

Rwanda

Ikal Angelei

Kenya

Jeremy Brickhill

Zimbabwe

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Emmanuel Jal

South Sudan

Conrad Hughes

South African

Julius ‘Juliani’ Owino

Kenya

Olof Skoog

Sweden

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Fawaz Baker

Syrie et France

Heba Aly

Canada

Hajer Sharief

Libya

Ahmed Abdullahi

Canada - Somalia
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Lena Dobrowolska

Poland

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Staffan de Mistura

Sweden

Coronel Lurangeli Franco

Colombia

Emilia Bjuggren

Sweden

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Gunilla von Hall

Sweden

Nina Verdiane Niabodé

Central African Republic

Selma Tengeborg

Sweden

Elin Rombo

Sweden

Azra Hadzic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Sadat Zagah Zziwa

Uganda

Kasha Sequoia Slavner

Canada

Ron Smith

USA

Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Kenya

Nino Rizzo

Switzerland

Bria Smith

USA

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Urban Ahlin

Sweden

Dany Diogo

Itonde Kakoma

États-Unis d'Amérique

Cheick Fayçal Traore

Burkina Faso

Jasminko Halilovic

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Deline Revend

Sweden

Pauline Bend

Senegal
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Yves Daccord

Switzerland

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

México
Eran Nissan PeaceTalks Geneva 2022 International Day of Peace

Eran Nissan

Israel

Chicco Mwenge Mayi

DRC

Anton Abele

Sweden

Sean Altshuler

USA

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

Sweden

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi

Linley Constant

Mauritius

Charles Davy Aka

Côte d'ivoire

Jürg Lauber

Suisse

João Boavida

Timor-Leste

Saype

France et Suisse
Diwele Molale Lubi dance peace talks

Diwele Molale Lubi

South Africa - France

Maryam Monsef

Canada - Afghanistan

Honoré Zamblé

Côte d'ivoire

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Serbia

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombia

Peter Wallensteen

Sweden

Dina Alami

Sweden
Amadou Dabitao

Amadou Dabitao

France - Mali

Renée Larivière

Switzerland

Luís Figo

Portugal

Nisreen Ismail

Canada - Syria

Brigadier General Álvaro Pico Malaver

Colombia

Eliezer Rabinovici

Israel

Zainab Nankya

Uganda

Susan Guerra

Switzerland

Adiba Qasim

Iraq

Sunanda Deshapriya

Sri Lanka

Dimitar Andonov

Serbia

Sofia Stril-Rever

France

Judith Bird

United Kingdom
Ksenia Vlasova Kuznetsova PeaceTalks Geneva 2021

Ksenia Vlasova-Kuznetsova

Russia

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Helena Puig Larrauri

Spain

Hatim Belyamani

Morocco - USA

Natasha Latiff

Singapour

Monica McWilliams

Ireland

Gail Gallie

United Kingdom

Fawaz Baker

Syria, France

Afrizo

Kenya

Roberta Ventura

Italy

Geofrey Odongo

Kenya

Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera

Colombie

Randa Kassis

Syria - France

Abbes Boukhobza

Tunisia

Ange Noelle Muyubira

Burundi
PeaceTalks_HeloiseHughes

Héloïse Hughes

South Africa - Cameroon

Marie-Claude Akpetou

Côte d'ivoire

Madia Bamba

Côte d'ivoire

Antoine Laham

Lebanon - Switzerland

Forest Whitaker

USA

Fawzia Koofi

Afghanistan

Noam Shuster

Israel

Francis Kariuki

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

Wasim Almasri

Palestine

Daniel Stein

USA

Sandra Shenge

Rwanda

Michele Brandt

USA

Vania Odelice Ineza

Rwanda

Andria Zafirakou

United Kingdom - Greece

Claudia Romo Edelman

Mexico - Switzerland

Sidonia Gabriel

Suisse

Joachim Attoubré Gnamien

Côte d'ivoire

Inua Ellams

Nigeria - United Kingdom

Solomon Muyundo

Kenya

Yetnebersh Nigussie

Ethiopia

Dr. Sellah King’oro

Kenya

Tyler Wolf

USA

Lionel Aeschlimann

Switzerland

Rashad Ali

United Kingdom

Ninette Umurerwa

Rwanda

Tristan Murenzi

Rwanda

Pososhok 

Switzerland - Cameroon
Daria Mykolenko

Daria Mykolenko

Ukraine

Wala’ Alsmadi

Jordan

Aya Béatrice Koffi

Côte d'ivoire

Lilla Akademien

Sweden

Conradin Kwacakworo Perner

Switzerland

Rehana Faisal

United Kingdom

Kathia Gretta Iradukunda

Burundi

Hassan Ismail

Kenya

James Suah Shilue

Liberia

Adam Tensta

Sweden

Charlotte Kirby

United Kingdom
Zarifa Ghafari Peace Talks Afghanistan

Zarifa Ghafari

Afghanistan

Michael Møller

Denmark

Maria Paloma Noriega Jalil

Mexique

Michelle Breslauer

USA

Ngoni Mugwisi

Zimbabwe

Abdinasir Mohamed Yusuf

Somalia

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

Sweden

Melanie Greenberg

États-Unis

Marina Peter

Germany

Sam Ogwal

Uganda

Saba Temelso

Eritrea

Marc Bonnet

Switzerland

Salama Ibrahim

Uganda

Arnoldo Gálvez

Guatemala

Josephine Kulea

Kenya

Giulio Valente

Italy

Mo Ibrahim

United Kingdom - Sudan

Diana García

Colombia

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