Way Forward for the HDP Nexus
Raan Clement
Raan Clement is a South Sudanese professional who has spent the last 15 years working for various international organisations in peacebuilding, conflict mitigation, civil society capacity-building, democracy & governance, and monitoring & evaluation. Over the years, he has worked with a network of key stakeholders in aid delivery, including community leaders, civil society organisations, youth groups, women’s groups and government institutions at both policy and operational levels. He currently works as Outreach and Learning Manager for the Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility (CSRF), Juba, South Sudan. Raan is passionate about effective aid delivery across the humanitarian, development and peace nexus so that aid does not contribute or exacerbate existing conflict but rather maximises its positive impact.
Website: CSRF
Barbara Kobler
Barbara Kobler is an international development expert with more than ten years of experience providing policy advice on and implementing the humanitarian–development–peace (HDP) nexus. Amongst other things, she worked as a Development Cooperation Officer in the United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in Kinshasa (DR Congo), where she was responsible for coordinating the rolling out of the HDP nexus approach in the country. Currently working as an independent consultant, she most recently supported the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) in Berlin in setting up a German Community of Practice on the HDP nexus and developed and delivered training courses on the topic. Barbara holds a Master’s degree in International Relations.
Profile: LinkedIn
Publications: Interlinking Humanitarian Aid, Development Cooperation and Peacebuilding in Displacement Contexts
Almamy Koné
Almamy Koné, originally from Diondiori in central Mali's Mopti region, trained as a lawyer and holds a Master’s degree in Law from the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences in Bamako. He has been working in the humanitarian field since 2018 and has held the Governance and Peacebuilding Program Manager position with IRC on the BMZ project since 2020.
Website: IRC Mali
Julio Ernesto Rank Wright
Julio Rank Wright is Regional Vice President for Latin America at the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Julio provides strategic leadership, programmatic and operational management support to nine country programs across the region.
With over twenty years of experience, he has worked in international development, design and management of humanitarian programs. He was chosen as a “Voice of the New Generation” by the Council of the Americas and is a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Julio has served on the Board of Directors of several community-based non-profit organisations in the region.
Julio has a BS in Economics and Religious Studies from Santa Clara University, an MSc in Community and Rural Development from Cornell University and an MSc in Business and Enterprise from Oxford Brookes University.
Profile: LinkedIn
Publications: Responding to a non-traditional humanitarian crisis: the case of Northern Central America - Alternatives Humanitaires
John Rutaro
John currently holds the position of Head of Program Development, Quality and Strategy at Welthungerhilfe, South Sudan Program. His current and previous roles focus on resource mobilisation, program design, monitoring and evaluation and ensuring adherence to humanitarian standards and sector best practices.
John began his humanitarian career during the last phases of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009 before moving to Somalia, Yemen, Uganda, Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territories, then Sierra Leone Ebola 2014–2016 response and Myanmar before returning to South Sudan in October 2022. John previously worked for VSO, Oxfam GB, UNDP, Save the Children, Norwegian Refugee Council, Danish Refugee Council, and Help – Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e. V before joining Welthungerhilfe in April 2023.
John holds a BA in Social Work and Administration, PGD Project Management, PGD Project Planning and a Master’s in Business Administration.
Profile: LinkedIn
Publications: A lost generation? | NRC
Summer Brown
Summer Brown is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in The Hague. Her research focuses on how national non-governmental organisations in South Sudan engage with international agendas and approaches including the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus and localisation. She is also a senior level consultant who has more than 25 years of experience advising and supporting organisations to develop and evaluate their policies and practices on aid effectiveness including across the components of the HDP nexus. Some of the organisations that she has worked with include United Nations agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Christian Aid, Oxfam, Islamic Relief, International Alert, Mott MacDonald, European the Peacebuilding Liaison Office, and Caritas, Switzerland.
Website: (Summer) SA Brown | Erasmus University Rotterdam (eur.nl)
Profile: LinkedIn
Publications: The peace dilemma in the triple nexus: challenges and opportunities for the humanitarian–development–peace approach ‘Peace’ in the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: Good Practices and Recommendations (watch Animated video Connecting Disasters and Climate Change to the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
Fady Traoré
Fady Traoré is coordinator/principal researcher at the Institut Malien de Recherche-Action pour la Paix (IMRAP). Trained as a lawyer, she has six years' research experience on issues of peace, governance, security and justice in central and northern Mali.
She has participated and spoken at sub-regional and international conferences and workshops on peace and security issues.
Fady Traoré is a member of the Resolution 1325 Community of Practice in Mali, which brings together some twenty national associations and NGOs contributing to the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. She also participated in the process of setting up the Resilience Community of Practice through USAID's Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus. The Resilience CrP was set up by USAID in May 2023 in Mali following a series of consultations with Development-Humanitarian-Peace (DHP) stakeholders and local and national authorities.
Website: IMRA-Mali
Publications: IMRAP Mali publications
Sylvia Brown
Sylvia Brown is Conflict and Peacebuilding Senior Adviser in the Rights, Resilience, Response team at Oxfam GB. Sylvia has a PhD in Development Studies and twenty years’ experience in international development, working with a range of INGOs, local community-based organisations, human rights groups, UN agencies and government departments. Sylvia has a special interest in triple nexus approaches, women and youth-led peacebuilding, community-led conflict transformation, and climate change issues in conflict-affected contexts.
Website: Oxfam
Profile: LinkedIn
Publications: The peace dilemma in the triple nexus: challenges and opportunities for the humanitarian–development–peace approach
Christian Gülisch
Christian Gülisch leads the MENA Unit at Berghof Foundation. Before joining our organisation, he was the Head of Programmes Middle East at Forum Civil Peace Service where he managed the country offices and peacebuilding initiatives in the region. Prior to that he also worked for Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in the Middle East and the Transparency International Secretariat. Christian holds Master’s degree in Social Science from the Global Studies Programme of the University of Freiburg and FLACSO Institute Buenos Aires.
Website: Berghof Foundation
Publications: Inclusive local and national-level dialogue in Lebanon Climate-focused mediation and peacebuilding in Iraq
Patrick Katelo
Patrick Katelo Issako was born and brought up as a peasant pastoralist from Northern Kenya. His profession as a Career Teacher was shortened after he developed interest in Community Development and joined the world of Social Development and Humanitarian Services, as he joined FARM AFRICA Pastoralist Development Project as Education Coordinator for Marsabit , Moyale and Samburu District, Kenya, in 1993.
Patrick Katelo is the founder and Executive Director of the Pastoralist Community Initiative and Development Assistance (PACIDA) – a leading humanitarian and sustainable development organization operating in northern Kenya (pastoralist counties) and Southern Ethiopia, which also play a crucial role in Community peace dialogue and voluntarily disarmament in the Northern Corridor covering Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
A holder of a Master’s degree in Conflict Resolution and Peace Building and a Bachelor’s in Sociology, Mr Katelo has led PACIDA in the last 17 years. He also currently serves as National Chairman of Kenya Camel Association and got national recognition by being awarded HSC by H.E the President of Republic of Kenya.
Website: PACIDA
Riyadh Al-Khadhra
Riyadh Al-Khadhra is Senior Governance Manager at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and represents the IRC as Co-Chair of the Peace and Reconciliation Working Group in Iraq. He leads several peace and social cohesion projects in collaboration with seven local NGOs in Iraq. Riyadh brings over nine years of experience aiding internally displaced and conflict-affected individuals in Iraq. In his role, he focuses on governance, social cohesion, and peacebuilding. Riyadh has extensive experience working with civil society organizations, local authorities, and community-based structures, with a strong background in program and project management.
Website: IRC
Profile: LinkedIn
Rodrigo Bolanos Suárez
Rodrigo is a Data Scientist and Researcher at bicc. He is an experienced public policy researcher and data analyst with more than six years experience working at relevant think tanks (Ethos Innovation in Public Policy), internationally recognised organisations (Transparency International, OECD, European Research Centre for Anti-corruption and State-Building), and universities (National Autonomous University of Mexico). He graduated from the Master of Public Policy at the Hertie School in Berlin with a focus on quantitative analysis of policies and data science.
At bicc, Rodrigo supports the implementation of data science solutions to the understanding of the Humanitarian-Peace-Development Nexus. He also engages in data processes regarding the estimation of the Global Militarisation Index and its derivatives. His research topics are: Quantitative policy analysis and data science, anti-corruption and state capacity, violence, conflicts, and democracy.
Website: bicc
Publications: How to Decolonise the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus?
Claudia Breitung
Claudia is a Senior Researcher at bicc. She has more than 15 years of experience, as a practitioner, trainer and researcher, in the field of conflict analysis and transformation mostly on the African continent. Her work focuses on the trajectories of individuals moving in and out of armed groups. Claudia‘s doctoral thesis focused on organisational behaviour of humanitarian agencies in their interaction with rebel groups.
Since 2018 she has supported the UN Interagency Working Group on Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (IAWG-DDR) in the revision, operationalisation and dissemination of the Integrated DDR Standards (IDDRS). Currently, she is conducting research on regional approaches to dealing with armed groups in the Sahel region.
Her research topics are: Analysis of non-state armed groups, trajectories in and out of armed groups, weapons and ammunition management/Small arms and light weapons control, reintegration processes of individuals transiting into civilian life, United Nations peace and stabilisation operations, economies of violence, armed violence reduction/conflict transformation, and Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Processes (DDR).
Website: bicc
Conrad Schetter
Conrad Schetter studied geography, history, education, Persian and Indonesian at the University of Bonn. Since 2013, Conrad Schetter has been the Director of the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (bicc). From 1999 to 2013, he worked at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, where he held the position of Acting Director.
He started his academic career with studies on the impact of ethnicity on violent conflicts. Then, his research focused on themes such as politics of interventions, spaces of violence (e.g. ungoverned spaces, frontiers), development, humanitarian aid and conflict, Jihadi movements (e.g. Taliban) and forced migration. Conrad Schetter has given advice to German ministries as well as to GOs and NGOs. Among others he is member of the presidency of Welthungerhilfe and of the Board of Trustees of IDOS as well as member of the Advisory Boards of DSF and SEF.
His research topics are: Politics of Intervention; Spaces of violence; Development, humanitarian aid and conflict; Ethnicity and ethnic conflicts; Jihadi movements; Forced migration.
Website: bicc
Birgit Kemmerling
Birgit is a Senior Researcher at bicc. She has a PhD in human geography and several years of professional experience in humanitarian aid. For the past fifteen years, she has been researching and working on various countries in the MENA region and sub-Saharan Africa, mainly on food (in)security and sustainable resource management.
Birgit joined BICC in November 2019 as a senior researcher for a project on sustainable transformation processes in rural Morocco (I-WALAMAR). For three years, she explored the socio-economic sustainability and potential risks of introducing new technologies and agricultural practices that aim for introducing a circular economy in the olive oil industry in Meknès, Morocco. she lived and conducted research in Egypt for several years for her PhD on the governance of water in Egypt’s agricultural sector and its impact on socio-spaces, with a focus on the role of the international development cooperation.
She has also worked in the humanitarian department at Caritas Germany in Freiburg for more than three years, where she coordinated emergency and transitional aid projects in South Sudan and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Building on this practical experience, She is currently part of a research project at BICC on how the links between humanitarian assistance, development cooperation and peacebuilding (HDP nexus) can be improved. For this project, she conducts research in three localities in South Sudan. Besides that, she is working on the links between current food crises and violent conflict.
Her research topics are: Human-environmental relations, political ecology, and theories of space; Rural transformations and agricultural development; Natural resources management and governance of resources; Food insecurity and violent conflict; HDP Nexus and humanitarian assistance; Qualitative research methods.
Website: bicc
Publications: Spotlight on Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus Implementation in South Sudan: Localisation from a Decolonial Perspective
Boubacar Haidara
Boubacar is a Senior Researcher at bicc. Before joining BICC, Boubacar Haidara taught at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ségou (Mali) (2018-2022). He has also carried out a number of research missions for several institutions: World Bank Group, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Clingendael Institute, etc.
Boubacar holds a PhD in political science & political geography, University Bordeaux Montaigne and laboratory ‘’Les Afriques dans le Monde’’ (LAM), Institute of Political Studies of Bordeaux, France (2015), a Master’s in International Management, Paris School of Tourism & Communication, Paris, France (2012) and a Master’s in Geopolitics, University of Paris Sorbonne-Paris 4, Paris, France (2010). He did his Bachelor's in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Clermont-Ferrand II, France, in 2008.
His research topics are: Islamism and Jihadism; Crises and stabilisation processes; Peace and security; Inter-community conflicts; History of Islam in Africa; Sociology of religion; Islam and politics; Islamic movements.
Website: bicc
Esther Meininghaus
Esther is a Senior Researcher at bicc. After completing her PhD in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester (2013), Esther taught at the University of Manchester before joining BICC as a Senior Researcher in 2016. She also teaches as an associate lecturer at the University of Bonn.
Esther is currently heading the project “How can the HDP nexus succeed? NGOs between humanitarian aid, development and peacebuilding”. The focus of her current research lies on local concepts of conflict, conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace and the question as to how these concepts differ from Global Northern understandings of these terms.
Her research topics are: Local concepts; epistemology; anthropology; peace negotiations; HDP nexus; decoloniality.
Website: bicc
Publications: Spotlight on Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus Implementation in Iraq: Challenges to Peace Activities from a Decolonial Perspective
Projects: How can the HDP nexus succeed?
Marie Müller-Koné
Marie is a Senior Researcher with bicc. She studied International Relations and Global Political Economy at the University of Dresden, Germany, and the University of Sussex, UK, and is pursuing doctoral research in Development Studies at the University of Bonn (Prof. Conrad Schetter) and University of Cologne (Prof. Michael Bollig). Marie joined bicc in 2009 and currently coordinates the research project “How can the HDP nexus succeed? NGOs between humanitarian aid, development and peacebuilding” at bicc.
Her research topics are: Resource conflicts; global resource governance; ethnicization of land conflicts, human-nature-relations; development-induced displacement and dispossession.
Website: bicc