Miftahul Huda is working for Peace Generation Indonesia as a trainer for peace Educators and actively engages with young people for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) across Indonesia. With IofC, he was part of Asia Pacific Coordination group and leading Life Matters Course in Asia Pacific Region. In 2011, he got the award as ASEAN Young Ambassador to join International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) to visit US.
Nenden Mutiara Ulfa leads the program for the School of Reconciliation to engage people to understand their ancestral roots and bring reconciliation and healing in their lives. She also leads the MDI, Peace Generations Business unit in Bandung. Here you can learn more about her work: https://id.iofc.org/workshop-all-about-love.
Christina Foerch Saab holds her Master degree in Political Sciences and Spanish from the Free University of Berlin. In 2000, she moved from Berlin to Beirut where she has been working as filmmaker, journalist and consultant for NGOs. She has specialized in issues such as the memory of the Lebanese civil war, ex-combatants, peace education, arms control and disarmament processes.
Emilie Tankora has been working on peacebuilding programming and initiatives in Niger for the past ten years. She is trained in mediation, conflict management and non-violent communication. She previously worked with the NGO EIRENE to support local organizations to develop peacebuilding actions and conflict sensitive approaches in the Sahel Region.
Lisa-Raine Hunt is a Community Coordinator working between local and central government. In London, she facilitates programmes with faith, race, disability, LGBTQ and gender focus groups to map and understand the context of extremism as well as enable grass roots community action that counters extremism in all forms.
Mark Amaza works on sustainable and youth development, and media in Nigeria. He works on a campaign to increase energy access through decentralized renewable energy. He is also a founder of an initiative that aims to implement community projects in Borno State that has been ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency.
Sintija Bernava has been holding high-profile positions in the Government and Parliament in Latvia. Sintija is Chairwoman of the Board of Non Governmental Organisation ''Donum Animus'' and manages social innovations for children and youth from marginalized groups (''Creative Workshops''), and has published numerous international publications addressing social issues.
Nora Abdalaal is a university student and a human rights advocate from Canada who has founded her own registered non profit, called Bridging Borders. Bridging Borders, which is youth run, aims to connect people together and bridge the economic, social, and physical borders between them. They believe that by acting as a facilitator for humanitarian aid between different groups of people, they can take a step in the right direction and achieve incremental change towards a more interconnected and interdependent world. The slogan of the non profit is #HumansForHumans.
Hajer Sharief is the co-founder of the “Together We Build it” NGO in Libya and an Extremely Together Young Leader of the Kofi Annan Foundation. With her organization, Hajer advocates for women’s and youth inclusion in peace in Libya. In 2013, she co-initiated the 1325 Network in Libya, a network of civil society organisations encouraging women to play an active role in peacebuilding and conflict prevention. As part of the Kofi Annan Foundation's Extremely Together initiative, she also helped design the first ever youth-led countering violent extremism toolkit.
Louie Gardiner is the creator of the P6 Constellation – the framework that enables people to access the praxis of Presence in Action. This powerful approach equips people to engage in deep personal change, transforming their relationships with themselves, others and the wider world. She is a Director of Presence In Action (PIA) Collective CIC and Potent 6 in which she is the Lead PIA Practitioner & Learning Partner; Change Consultant & Trainer-Facilitator.