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Training College and the Rwanda military academy, the South Sudan Human Rights Commission,
the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission as well as Ethiopian, Kenyan, Ugandan and Zimbabwean
civil society. She is also a trainer in the University of Pretoria’s Good Governance courses.
Dr Eileen F. Babbitt is Professor of International Conflict Management Practice, director
of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program and co-director of the Program
on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts
University, USA. She is also a faculty associate of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law
School. Dr Babbitt’s latest publications include Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context:
Colombia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Ireland (Syracuse University Press, 2009), co-edited with
Ellen Lutz; and Negotiating Self-Determination (Lexington Books, 2007), co-edited with Hurst
Hannum. She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Ugandan-born Albert Gomes-Mugumya is the project coordinator for the Minority
Rights and Conflict Prevention Project of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CECORE) in Uganda.
He previously worked for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in
Johannesburg, South Africa, and for Amnesty International in London, UK. He has a bachelor’s
degree in Politics, History and Philosophy from Makerere University (Uganda), and a master’s
degree in Conflict Resolution from Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of United Nations
Transitional Administrations – An Enigma (VDM Verlag, 2009). His areas of interest are conflict
transformation, peacebuilding and human security.
Dr Marwan Darweish is senior lecturer at Coventry University’s Centre for Peace
and Reconciliation Studies (UK). He has wide-ranging experience as an academic, researcher and
lecturer, as well as in leading/facilitating training courses on conflict transformation and peace
processes. He has extensive experience across the Middle East region and a special interest in the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict and ongoing peace negotiations. He previously worked as a peace and
conflict advisor at Responding to Conflict (RTC), where he took on a range of conflict consultancies
including work involving the Horn, East and Central African countries.
Dr Mauricio García-Durán is a Jesuit priest and researcher on peace processes and
social mobilisation for peace in Colombia. He is the executive director of the Center for Research
and Popular Education (CINEP) in Bogotá, Colombia. He has also worked on programmes with the
displaced population, for CINEP and the Jesuit Refugee Service. He has published four books and
more than 40 articles on violence and peace-related issues, and has a BA in Political Sciences, a BA
in Theology, an MA in Philosophy, and a PhD in Peace Studies from Bradford University, UK.