Eric Blanchot, the Executive Director of Promediation, is a mediator and negotiation expert. His work with Promediation focuses primarily on crisis contexts in Mali and Libya. Since February 2013, he has also been acting as a mediator in Chad on behalf of the CAO, the World Bank’s Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman. Previously, in 2011, he joined the United Nations Mediation Support Unit (Department of Political Affairs, New York) as a mediator, and from July 2012 to May 2014, he served as Sahel Coordinator for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD). Eric has....