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Mr. Ould Abdallah is the President of the Centre for Strategy and Security in the Sahel Sahara (Centre4s). After pursuing higher education in Economics and Political Science in France (Grenoble and Paris), between 1969 and 1984, he successively held the positions of Minister of Commerce and Transport, Ambassador to the United States and to the Benelux countries and the European Union, and finally Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. United Nations Career: Between 1985 and 1996, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah served as a Director at the UN headquarters in New York, before being deployed to the field as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in Burundi from 1993 to 1995. From 1996 to 2002, he joined the World...

Since 1987, Sanda Kaufman has taught public policy and public management at Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban Affairs, where she directs the Master of Environmental Studies program. She holds degrees in architecture, urban and regional planning, and public policy analysis (from Carnegie Mellon University). She teaches negotiation, environmental dispute resolution, environmental policy, strategic planning, and quantitative reasoning. She also teaches decision-making and conflict management to public administrators, higher education administrators, elected officials, other managers of public agencies, and environmental and...

Luc Chounet-Cambas is a seasoned practitioner in peace processes, ceasefire negotiations, and disarmament. He has extensive experience in project and program management, as well as advisory and consultancy roles. He is currently based in Bangkok. Luc previously managed Integrity’s program in Lebanon. Before that, he spent six years with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre), where he worked on dialogue and peace processes, providing operational support in conflict analysis, strategic planning, and project development. He supported negotiators and mediators with the technical aspects of ceasefires and disarmament efforts in...

Monique Chemillier-Gendreau is a jurist and professor emerita of public law and political science at the University of Paris Diderot (Paris VII). As a committed practitioner involved in numerous non-profit activities, she is the author of several books and around a hundred articles in journals or edited volumes, advocating for a critical approach to international law. She is notably the honorary president of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights, which she helped found. She also possesses significant practical experience with international...