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Kathleen Doherty

Co-Chair Africa/Middle East Region Global Peace Conference 2021

Geoff Neil

Facilitator, Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

Chaiwat Satha-Anand

Professor of Political Science at Thammasat University, Bangkok

Maya Sekine

Maya works to promote the Ainu language and culture through school and community.

Mahina Tuteur

Post-J.D. & Teaching Fellow at Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law.

Wisdom Addo

Lorrie Hayman

Lai Yuen Looi

Abigail Connolly

Jaclyn McAlester

Ibrahim Bah

Priyanka Borpujari

Elkin Salcedo

Trang Nguyen Thi Nhu

Derek Chin

Lilly Satidtanasarn

13-year old environmental activist

Jerry Norman

Maori Kaumatua and Past District 9910 Governor

Arnoldas Pranckevicius

Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania

Ugochi Abazi

Manager, Coalition and Diplomacy for Every Woman Treaty

Ramzi Aburedwan

Musician, composer and conductor

Michael Lickers

Mohawk educator from Six Nations of the Grand River, Canada.

Sophie Ogutu

mother, unapologetic women's rights defender, community mobilizer, and above all - a feminist artist

Monica Greco

Program Officer, Open Society Foundations. Former Rotary Global Scholar at Oxford

Ramon Gras Aloma

Urban Innovation Researcher at Harvard, Co-Founder at Aretian

Muyi Yang

Rotary Peace Fellow, Incoming Kwok-Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholar at Oxford

Elaine Pratley

Conference Co-Chair

Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska

Never Again Association, RPFAA Europe Coordinator

Fikiri Nzoyisenga

RPF and Founder of Youth Coalition Against Gender-based Violence (known as SEMERERA)

Julien Poulson

Co-founder of Cambodian Space Project

Chris Salewicz

Biographer of Bob Marley, Joe Strummer and others

Pawel Gumola

Leader of Moskwa, a legendary Polish punk band established in 1983

Riz Farooqi

Founder of King Ly Chee, one of the first groups to introduce hardcore punk to China

Carla Hananía de Varela

Minister of Education El Salvador

Jorge Peraza Breedy

Chief of Missions, El Salvador, Guatemala & Honduras (IOM)

Sellah King'oro

Sellah N. King’oro is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya, a social researcher, mediator and gender expert.

Nil Delahaye

Co-founder at BoMoVu

Nora Didkowsky

Speaker

Yvonne Henry

Global Implementation Director

Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh

Co-Founder and International Director

Burcu Ayan

Speaker

Yeela Raanan

Speaker

Megan Kelly

Speaker

Regina Mutiru Mwendwa

Programs Officer

Maya Youssef

Speaker, composer and virtuoso of the qanun: disseminating peace through the healing power of music.

francis sakwa

Non violent is a process of peacebuilding

Roshan Karkera

Applied Theatre Practitioner

Naman Gupta

Applied theatre student, Rangbhumi

Chetna Mehrotra

An Applied Theatre Practitioner

Anamitra Patnaik

Applied Theatre student, Rangbhumi

supreet k singh

Speaker

Richard Htayreh

Practical aspect with can do mentality

Michael Chew

creativity for change

Nikhil Sharma

Applied Theatre Practitioner

Chris Lwin

Speaker

Anirudh Prakash

Applied theater student, Rangbhumi

Htet-Yamone Aung

Student at the University of Melbourne from Mandalay, Myanmar

Dr Thein Moe WIN

[PhD-UNSW, M.Eng., B.Eng.(Hons), MIEAust]

Le Sen

A believer in positive changes

Bianca Neff

Speaker

Priyanka Borpujari

Writer. Independent Journalist. Communications Consultant.

Mirali Shukla

Bio-Cultural Conservation

Scott Nishimoto

Speaker

ElsaMarie DSilva

Founder of Red Dot Foundation Global

Saumya Aggarwal

Speaker

Saifullah Muhammad

A success story of Rohingya Football Club and Youth empowerment

Yuvani Thanawala

Speaker - Environmental Responsibility

Grace Van Zyl

Rotarian, Financial Life Strategist, Serial Entrepreneur

Helen Tanner

Speaker

Allwell Akhigbe

Speaker

Jose Barzola

Speaker

Susan Hartley

Speaker

Ignacio Asis

Speaker

MANUEL FERNANDEZ MORALES

Professor, Researchers and sometimes Lawyer

Gretchen Alther

Sr. Leadership Development Specialist | Leadership Program Senior Manager

Walter Gyger

Speaker

Serena Clark

Post-doctoral researcher

Farida Nabourema

Farida Nabourema, is a social activist and writer, as well as the unequivocal voice of Togo’s pro-democracy movement.

Rita M. Lopidia

Speaker

Denise Melanie Lagrosa

Denise Melanie Du Lagrosa, EnP. Art Beyond Borders, Arts for Peace and International Understanding

Issa Amro

Speaker

Peter Dixon

Speaker

Wale Adeboye

Speaker

Sinéad McGrath

Speaker

Remi Hilal

Arabic and English Singer-Songwriter

Nino Lotishvili

Founder of PRCT and Mindful Georgia

Helga Flamtermesky

Speaker

Solomon Odero

Speaker

Michiko Yokoyama

Facilitator, Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

Yoshiro Yamawaki

Speaker, atomic bomb survivor

Shohei Tsuiki

Speaker, atomic bomb survivor

Manal El Tayar

Speaker

Dilek Üstünalan

Speaker

Budoi Samuel

Tech Head Africa

Richelieu Allison

Moderator

Hope T. Chichaya

Speaker

David Normanyo

Speaker

MASTER MFUNE

Speaker

Ulrike Hopp Nishanka

Speaker

Israa Jomaa

Speaker

Taylor OConnor

Speaker

Mohamed Kanneh

Program Coordinator of the West African Youth Network in Sierra Leone

Trey Sheridan

Speaker

Natia Chankvetadze

Speaker

Erica Rose Jeffrey

Speaker

AMANDA CASTREQUINI SIMÃO

Speaker

Elizabeth Usovicz

Speaker

William McInerney

Speaker

James Fortune

Executive Assistant, West Africa Youth Network

Chaiwat Satha-Anand

Speaker - Opening Plenary Asia & Oceania

Karin Augustat

Development Anthropologist Psychotherapist

Fernando Lopez

Speaker

Maria Julia Moreyra

Speaker

Kyaw Kyaw

Leader of ‘Rebel Riot’, a punk band from Yangon, Myanmar

Teresa Zorrilla

Speaker

Elohim Monard

Speaker

Anna Sakvarelidze

Speaker

Sabina Kaqinari

Speaker

Mariny OY

Speaker

Dave McCleary

Speaker

Kate Seewald

Speaker

Dr. Martha Mutidi

Speaker

Aleena Inthaly

Speaker

Tareq Layka

Speaker

Martha Mutisi

Senior Programme Officer at International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Susan Owiro-Chege

Programs Coordinator at Partnership for Peace and Security

Patrick Sigei

Tech

Melvin Mansour

Senior ME Officer

Yogi Reppmann

Speaker

Roslyn Williams George

Speaker - Your Global Peace Conference

Charles Allen

Speaker

Hanna Siarova

Speaker

Angie De Luna

Speaker

SUYHEANG KRY

Speaker - Invisible knot

Karen Bernstein Pinto

Speaker

Leang SOK

Speaker

Erin Thomas

RAGFP Honorary Board Member

HAFSAT ABIOLA

President of Women in Africa Initiative

KARIM WASFI

Founder of Peace Through Arts (Iraq)

Dirk Lustig

Moderator

Karishma sanu Sovvota

Singer-songwriter, Director-Teacher at her own music school Anondom Shongitangon

Maqsoodul Haque

Leader of Maqsood O Dhaka, the leading jazz-rock fusion band from Bangladesh

Urs Klemm

Rotary International Director 2021-23

Eva Mackinely

Rotary Peace Fellow, Bradford

Fred VINCENT

RAGFP French Chapter

Eva Czermak

Speaker

Henrique Garbino

mine action | peace operations | civil-military relations

Anna Slavinskaya (高井)

Speaker

Serge Stroobants

Speaker - Measuring Peace

Roger Mac Ginty

Speaker

Maria Manuela Cordoba Aguirre

Speaker - Youth, Peace, and Security

Giorgi Gabedava

Speaker - Youth, Peace, and Security

Priscila Caetano Amorim

Speaker

Phill Gittins

World BEYOND War, RPFAA Europe Coordinator

Murtala Touray

Senior Africa Analyst

Claudia Caluori

International Legal Counsel and Mediator

William McInerney

Speaker

Juliet Adoch

Speaker

Peter Machieng Chan Gaduel

Speaker

Shannon Carter

Speaker

Alejandro Collia

Speaker

Rafal Pankowski

NEVER AGAIN Association co-founder

Mofidul Hoque

Co-founder, Liberation War Museum

Martin Scott

Speaker

Sharada Jnawali

Speaker

Iryna Bushmina

Speaker

Violetta Alekseeva

Speaker

Amparo Restrepo

Speaker

ana victoria Bastidas

Speaker

Brendan Stewart

Speaker

Lorelei Higgins

Speaker

Bill Rintz

Speaker

Staci Martin

Speaker

Ana Patel

Speaker

Pushpi Weerakoon

Speaker

Carla Hananía

Speaker

David LaMotte

Speaker

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Booths

Conference Chair Welcome

Introduction to the 2021 Global Peace Conference!

FAQs Booth

Visit this booth to read through frequently asked questions regarding Hopin and navigating this conference.

Denise Lagrosa

Regional Coordinator for the Philippines of Global Arts for Peace Project, UNESCO awarded project for Peace.