Oslo forum | Africa 09 - Participants

Participants Position
Mr Ahmed Abdisalam Adan Former Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, Head of the transitional federal government delegation to the High Level committee, Djibouti Peace Process
Mr Barney Afako Legal Adviser to the Ugandan Peace Negotiations in Juba
Mr Kingsley Opoku Amaning United Nations Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative in Chad
Ms Asha Hagi Elmi Amin Founder and Chairlady, Save Somali Women and Children; Delegate of the Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia delegation to the High Level Committee, Djibouti Peace Process; Co-Chair, final phase of the Somali National Reconciliation Conference in 2004
Mr Suliman Baldo Africa Director, International Center for Transitional Justice
Ambassador Jean-Christophe Belliard Ambassador of France to Ethiopia and the African Union, former Special Adviser to European Union High Representative Javier Solana
Mr Emannuel Bombande Executive Director, West African Network for Peacebuilding
Ms Francesca Bomboko Member of the Steering Committee, World Movement for Democracy; founder of the Bureau d'Etudes, de Recherche et de Consulting International (BERCI)
Mr Joseph Waryoba Butiku Executive Director, Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation
Ms Tatiana Carayannis Associate Director, Social Science Research Council's Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum
Mr Christopher Coleman Chief, United Nations Policy Planning and Mediation Support Unit, Department of Political Affairs
Mr Mike Davis Head, Conflict Resources Team, Global Witness
Mr Malik Dechambenoit Senior Political Adviser, Office of the United Nations Secretary-General Special Envoy for the Democratic Republic of Congo Crisis
Ms Bineta Diop Executive Director, Femmes Africa Solidarité
Ambassador Said Djinnit Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the Office of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa
Ambassador Nana Effah-Apenteng Chief of Staff, Panel of Eminent African Personalities; Chief of Staff, Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation Process
Ms Thelma Ekiyor Executive Director, West Africa Civil Society Institute; former Manager for Conflict Intervention and Peacebuilding Support, Centre for Conflict Resolution
Ambassador Marika Fahlén Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dr Chris Fomunyoh Senior Associate for Africa and Regional Director, Central and West Africa National Democratic Institute
Ms Hilde Frafjord Johnson Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund; former Minister of International Development, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr Vasu Gounden Executive Director and Founder, African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes
Mr Martin Griffiths Director, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Mr François Grignon Director, Africa Program, International Crisis Group
Mr Leonard T Kapungu Director, Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa
President Amani Abeid Karume President of Zanzibar
Mr Michel Noureddine Kassa Coordinator, Initiative pour un Leadership Cohésif en République Démocratique du Congo
Honourable Mutula Kilonzo Minister of Nairobi Metropolitan Development, Government of Kenya; Member of the government negotiating team for the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation Process
Ms Rina Kristmoen Councellor, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Nairobi
Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo Special Representative to the Great Lakes, Government of South Africa
Mr David Lambo Senior Adviser, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; former United Nations Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees
Ms Stine Lehmann-Larsen Project Manager, Mediation Support, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Ambassador Celestine Christopher Liundi Former permanent Delegate Organization of Africa Unity, Former permanent Delegate UNESCO
Ambassador Dr Augustine P Mahiga Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations
Mr C. Andrew Marshall Deputy Director, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
President Thabo Mbeki Former President of South Africa
Ambassador Haile Menkerios United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Head of United Nations Department of Political Affairs Africa
Mr Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi Former Minister for Local Government, South Africa
Ambassador Liberata Rutageruka Mulamula Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region
Mr Theodore Murphy Project Manager, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Ms Yvonne Ndege Africa Correspondent, Al Jazeera English
President Olusegun Obasanjo Former President of Nigeria, United Nations Secretary-General Special Envoy for Democratic Republic of Congo Crisis
Lieutenant General Seth Kofi Obeng Former Chief of Defence Staff, Ghana Armed Forces; former Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon; Member of the Council of the Wise, Economic Community of West African States
Ambassador Ayodele Oke Special Adviser and Head of Africa Section, Political Affairs Division, Commonwealth
Honourable Santa Okot Member of the Lord Resistance Army delegation; former Member of Parliament in Uganda
Ambassador Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia
Ambassador Arild R Oyen Special Envoy to the Great Lakes, Government of Norway
Sir Kieran Prendergast Adviser to the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
Ms Meredith Preston-McGhie Acting Regional Director for the Africa office, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Mr John Ryle Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology, Bard College, New York; Chair of the Rift Valley Institute
Ambassador Dr Salim Ahmed Salim Former Secretary General, Organisation of African Unity; Former African Union Special Envoy on the Darfur Conflict
Ambassador Andrea Semadeni Special Envoy for the Sudan and the Horn of Africa, Political Affairs Division, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Ambassador Svein Sevje Ambassador of Norway to Sudan
Mr Ali Shamhuna Deputy Chief Minister of Zanzibar
Mr Patrick Smith Editor, Africa Confidential
Dr Stephen W Smith Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University, United States of America
Ms Hilde Solbakken Senior Adviser, Section for Peace and Reconciliation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
Dr Endre Stiansen Senior Adviser, Sudan Team, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
Ambassador Gérard Stoudmann Special Envoy for Francophone Africa, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Ms Michela Wrong Writer and Journalist for the New Statesman
Mr Karl Wycoff Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, United States State Department; former Director for Central African Affairs
Mr Daniel Yifru Director, Peace and Security Division, Intergovernmental Authority on Development; former Director of Political and Humanitarian Affairs Division, Intergovernmental Authority on Development
Ms Céline Yvon Special Adviser, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

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