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Faculty 2006

Emmanuel Habuka Bombande is the Executive Director and co-founder of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP). He has fifteen years of peacebuilding experience as a mediator, conciliator and trainer in the Great Lakes Region and West Africa. He serves as Secretary to the Regional Board of WANEP and leads the management team, overseeing the running of the regional secretariat. Between 1994 and 1998, he worked with the Nairobi Peace Initiative. Mr. Bombande previously served as Africa Coordinator of International Young Christian Students Movement (IYCS). He is a Social Science graduate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and holds an MA in conflict transformation from the Eastern Mennonite University

Takwa Zebulon Suifon is the WANEP Liaison Officer to ECOWAS, based at the ECOWAS Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria. He has a Masters in International Relations and History from the University of Yaoundé and is currently finalizing formalities to present his Ph.D thesis in International Relations at same University. He is acting as the Early Warning and Early Response Programme Coordinator for WANEP, cumulatively with his functions as Liaison Officer. He worked as consultant on Media, Peace and Conflict issues in Cameroon, West and Central African Sub Regions. He also worked as editor, writer and head of research department for The Herald newspaper in Cameroon. He has published policy briefs on conflicts in West Africa on the WANEP and FEWER websites. He also published a good number of articles spanning from academic to human interest and environmental issues in The Herald and other publications in international new magazines and journals. His latest publication is the introductory chapter on Early Warning in People Building Peace II due to be launched at the Global Conference on the Prevention of Armed Conflicts billed for UN Headquarters, New York in July 2005.

Levinia Addae-Mensah is regional coordinator of WANEP’s Active Non-violence and Peace Education Programme. She joined the organisation in January 2001 as a Special Projects Coordinator for a year before moving on to focus specifically on Peace Education, an area where she has gained vast experience through the development of manuals, training and coordination of peer mediation programmes in schools. Prior to joining WANEP, Levinia worked in different capacities and on various programmes with International Alert in London, where she gained vast experience working extensively with politicians, civil society groups and grassroots in the Great Lakes region of Africa in general and in Burundi in particular. She has also worked as a consultant and researcher especially in the field of human rights for various organisations and has done some freelance interpretation and translation. She holds a first degree in French and in Geography and Resource Development and a Masters in International Relations. She is fluent in both French and English.

Isaac Albert is the Coordinator of the Graduate Peace and Conflict studies Programme of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He had his doctoral degree in African History from the University of Ibadan and was trained in Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping at the United Nations International Leadership Academy, Amman, Jordan. Dr Albert has been involved in peacebuilding projects in various parts of Nigeria, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. He has published extensively on issues pertaining to peace and conflict studies.

Sandra Cofie is a Consultant on Legal Policy and Human Rights at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-GHANA). Her most recent work was as a Registrar and Law Lecturer at the Ghana School of Law. Prior to that she worked for the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), where she managed the implementation of a Program for Capacity Building in Conflict Prevention and Good Governance. She currently works as the Director of the Judicial Reform, Project Management and Implementation Unit at the Judicial Service of Ghana. Sandra holds an LLB (Hons) degree from the University of Central England, Birmingham, England. She also received an LLM in Law in Development from the University of Warwick, Coventry, England. She is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana, and a member of the Ghana Bar Association.

Dr. Lydia Umar is a teacher by profession and a counselor, trainer and facilitator by practice. She obtained a Ph.D in Curriculum & Instruction (Social Studies) from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria ,Nigeria in the year 2001. The outcome of her thesis titled “Conflicts between parents and their adolescent children: Implications to Social Studies Education” was a proposed syllabus (package) on how to use Social Studies to teach peace and conflict resolution in junior secondary schools. Currently, Lydia is a principal lecturer at the Kaduna Polytechnic where she has lectured for over 20 years. Lydia has also come to be actively involved in national and local society development work (NGO) in different capacities over the last ten years. She currently occupies the position of Executive Director of Gender Action Team (GAT) an NGO based in Kaduna State, Nigeria, whose vision is a peaceful society that is free of all forms of gender discrimination. She is also actively engaged in training & capacity building of urban and rural women and in and out of school youths, primarily in the area of gender, peacebuilding and conflict resolution. She has engaged in media advocacy as well as advocacy visits to policy makers, traditional and religious leaders on the importance of building peace and effective conflict resolution by both men and women.

Oury Traore… Coming Soon

Austin Onuoha has BA in History from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and MA in conflict transformation from the Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA.  Currently Austin is completing a PhD in conflict analysis and resolution at Nova Southeastern University  in Florida, USA.   Austin is the author of the book: From Conflict to Collaboration: Building Peace in Nigeria's Oil-producing Communities. Austin was former Executive Secretary/Head of Conflict Resolution at the Human Rights Commission, Abakaliki, Nigeria and currently he is managing  the Ijaw/Itsekiri Dialogue Project for Misereor of Germany. Austin is a restorative justice enthusiast.

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