Lulsegged Abebe has over 15 years of experience in international relations and has a PhD in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University, USA. He has facilitated dialogue in many parts of Africa, with government officials, parliamentarians, religious leaders and NGOs and has wide experience of relief, rehabilitation and development work, particularly in Ethiopia.

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Marc Behrendt joined Alert in 2005. Previously he was Head of the Human Dimension Office at the OSCE Mission to Georgia, where he managed Mission activities promoting long term security through democratisation, human rights promotion, conflict resolution and the rule of law. Prior to this he was the Director of Internews Georgia, developing the capacity of television and radio broadcasters in the southern Caucasus through journalism training, advocacy and sustainable and independent financing. He has been engaged in promoting human rights and citizens’ advocacy in the countries of the former Soviet Union since 1990.

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Cynthia Gaigals is manager of the Peacebuilding Issues Programme, encompassing International Alert’s former teams on Development, Gender, Security and Business.

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Ndeye Sow has over 20 years’ experience in developing, implementing, managing and evaluating programmes in the field of conflict prevention and conflict transformation. She is a specialist in Gender and Development and has held positions at Abantu for Development, UK; the Africa Research and Information Bureau, UK; the Association of African Women for Research and Development, Senega; Ndeye the Lycee Lamine Gueye, Senegal; UNDP in France and the French Cultural Centre, Kenya. She has been at International Alert since 1995.

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Tony Jackson has worked as Alert's Great Lakes Policy Adviser since 1995. He now specialises in Burundian issues, and has written reports on the justice system and education in that country. He is currently concentrating on economic development, including job-creation, as key components for lasting peace in Burundi. During his 12 years with Oxfam, he held various positions, including Food Policy Adviser, Cambodia lobbyist and representative in Chad. Oxfam published his book on food aid, Against the Grain, in 1982. He has also worked for USAID in post-conflict and post-disaster development and planning in Latin America, Madagascar and Nepal.

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Bill Yates has over 30 years’ international development experience. He worked for Oxfam 1972 – 95 as Field Director, Brazil; Campaigns Manager, UK; Field Director, Cambodia; Deputy Director, Anniversary Programme; Project Manager, Fair Trade Mark; Country Representative, Angola. He has been a Senior Advisor to the African Great Lakes Programme at International Alert since 1995.

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Ed Garcia
Ed Garcia has worked in Asia, Africa and Latin America focusing on people’s participation in peace processes for over a decade. He taught political science and peace studies at the University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila University, and as a member of the Constitutional Commission helped to draft the 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines. He worked at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, and was founding convenor of Amnesty-Philippines from 1984. He authored A Journey of Hope (Claretian Publications, 1994), The Filipino Quest Trilogy (Claretian, 1988), co-edited Waging Peace in the Philippines (1988, 2003, and 2005), and wrote 'Empowering People to Build a Just Peace in the Asian Arena', included in the 2005 publication, Searching for Peace in Asia Pacific.

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William Godnick

William "Bill" Godnick is Senior Policy Adviser for Latin American with the Peacebuilding Issues Programme. He joined Alert in 2002 as part of the Monitoring the Implementation of Small Arms Control project. For the past two years his work has focused on Colombia and issues of security and human rights among extractive industry operations and local economic opportunities for demobilised combatants, displaced persons and vulnerable populations. Prior to joining Alert Bill was a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme's Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Director of the Programme on Security and Development at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a small business development adviser for the Peace Corps in Honduras. He is currrently a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations and Security Studies at the University of Bradford and holds an M.A. in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute.

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Judy El Bushra
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Last updated: September 2006