Background

International Geneva: Faces of Peace 

This initiative was a collaboration between the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform and the University of Geneva’s Masters Programme in Journalism and Communication to produce personality portraits from a selection of Geneva-based individual actors, working directly within – or relevant to – the peacebuilding field.

The initiative looks to present Geneva as a key hub for peacebuilding with its rich variety of organizations, many of which are in some way involved in the field of building peace.

Discover their diverse portraits below!

Jonathan Austin, Lead Researcher at the Graduate Institute

• Building peace through violence prevention
• Construire la paix en prévenant la violence

Einar Bjorgo, Director of UNOSAT

• A scientist in peacebuilding
• Un scientifique dans la construction de la paix

Maurizio Bona, Senior Advisor for Relations with Parliaments and science for policy, and Senior Advisor for knowledge transfer, CERN

• Science as a universal language
• La science en tant que langue universelle

Alan Doss, President of the Kofi Annan Foundation

• The Man with a Thousand Stories
• L'homme aux mille histoires

Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Director of Programmes at Small Arms Survey

• When research serves peace
• La recherche au service de la paix

Gunilla Hall, Foreign Correspondent

• Putting a face to conflict
• Donner un visage au conflit

Barbara Hintermann, Secretary-General, CAUX-Initiatives of Change

• Dialogue at the heart of conflict resolution
• Le dialogue au centre de la résolution des conflits

Hichem Khadhraoui, Director of Operations at Geneva Call

• Humanity at the heart of dialogue
• L'humanité au coeur du dialogue

Jeremy Lack, Independent Lawyer and Mediator, Co-Founder of neuroawareness.com

• A career between science and law
• Une carrière entre science et droit

Reverend Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches

• The Church must have a role in peacebuilding
• L'Eglise doit avoir un rôle dans la construction de la paix

Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director, Global Initiative Against Transnational Crime

• Criminal organizations and peacebuilding
• Organisations criminelles et construction de la paix