The Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) brings together existing women’s networks, practitioners, and organizations with long-standing experience in addressing extremism and promoting peace, rights and pluralism to improve practices in communities affected by violence, and offer pragmatic policy solutions for the international community.
Rodolfo Manuel Domínguez Márquez is the coordinator general of the Justice, Human Rights and Gender Civil Association, which conducts strategic litigation, monitors cases of femicide, and shares incidences of implementing research protocols on femicide and mechanisms to protect women in situations of violence. The association partners with the National Citizens' Femicide Observatory and is a founding member of the Women's Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL). Mr.
As a former Juvenile Justice Commissioner, Hasan Davis provides his expertise at the local, state and national levels and serves on several committees and boards to provide innovative, and transformational ways of supporting the youth. He is a fellow of prestigious programs like the Rockefeller Foundation, Next generations Leadership, Annie E. Casey Foundation and several others. He is the author of Written Off and the Journey of York, and performs theatrical productions chronicling the contributions of African Descendants in America’s history.
Ram Bhagat is an international conflict resolution trainer, expert in culturally responsive circles, trauma healing and restorative justice practices. He is the manager of school culture and climate strategy for Richmond City Public Schools. Ram is the co-founder of Drums No Guns Foundation and the visionary behind the Richmond Youth Peace Project. As a former public-school teacher, he created an innovative curriculum using the arts to teach chemistry and anatomy.
Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini is a leading international advocate, researcher, trainer and writer on conflict prevention and peacebuilding. In 2000, she was among the civil society drafters of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security and, in 2011, she was the first Senior Expert on Gender and Inclusion on the UN’s Mediation Standby Team.
Daniel Hyslop is responsible for leading Interpeace’s learning and policy agenda that aims to improve the state of knowledge on effective peacebuilding practice and use it to inform better international peacebuilding policy.
Dr. Khalid Koser is founding Executive Director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund, a public-private partnership dedicated to preventing violent extremism. In its first three years GCERF has reached over two million people in communities at risk. An academic by training, Khalid is Professor of Conflict, Peace and Security at the University of Maastricht, as well as non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, Chatham House, and the Lowy Institute.
Siddharth Singh is a facilitator, coach, designer and traveler. He co-founded ‘Paradigms Unlimited’, a business leadership-consulting firm, in 2001, which is committed to working with people to create personal and organisational transformation. Siddharth is also a full time volunteer with ‘Initiatives of Change’, which is an international movement working in the field of creating organisational and social change through personal transformation.
Désire Tuyishemeze graduated in Clinical and Social Psychology and focuses on the exploration of the link between mental health, trauma healing, piece, reconciliation and climate change. He is active in different local and international organizations, aiming at promoting mental health and psycho-social well-being for individuals and communities. He is an active member of Initaitives of Change, locally and internationally, and part of the Programme Support Team for Emerging Agents of Change (IofC International).
Liliya Luts is experienced in Human Resources management and organizational capacities building, she is focused in personal developments from the view of the Future requirements and for the last years especially works with engagement of youth into professional programmes with orientation on self determination and connection to communities and personal confidence. To ensure that she also provides support to teachers and parents for helping them to become a trustful partner in relations with youth.