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.
link to the CSRF website: https://www.csrf-southsudan.org/
link to an analysis by CSRF which fits to the conference: https://www.csrf-southsudan.org/repository/better-together-prospects-and-lessons-for-improving-coordination-and-collaboration-between-humanitarians-and-peacebuilders-in-south-sudan/
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.
Link to LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-kobler-a153635
Link to relevant article: https://www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/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.
Weblink of IRC Mali : https://www.rescue.org/country/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.
Link to a recent article he wrote for Alternatives Humanitaires on Northern Central America: Responding to a non-traditional humanitarian crisis: the case of Northern Central America - Alternatives Humanitaires (alternatives-humanitaires.org)
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julio-e-r-82340015/
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.
Link to an article by the Norwegian Refugee Council in which he is featured: A lost generation? | NRC
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-r-36ba2116/details/experience/
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.
Institutional website: (Summer) SA Brown | Erasmus University Rotterdam (eur.nl)
LinkedIn profile: linkedin.com/in/summer-brown-6967625
Weblinks to publications:
Brown, S., Mena, R., & Brown, S. (2024). The peace dilemma in the triple nexus: challenges and opportunities for the humanitarian–development–peace approach. Development in Practice, 1–17. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09614524.2024.2334774
Angelini, L & Brown, S. (2023), ‘Peace’ in the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: Good Practices and Recommendations, CSDN Discussion Paper. European Peacebuilding Liaison Office. Discussion paper link: Discussion paper & Animated video
Mena, R., Brown, S., Peters, L. E. R., Kelman, I., & Ji, H. (2022). Connecting Disasters and Climate Change to the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, https://doi.org/10.1177/15423166221129633
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.
Institutional website: www.imra-mali.org
Publications : https://imrap-mali.org/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.
Profile on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sylvia-brown-wilmslow
Institutional website: https://www.oxfam.org.uk/
Weblink to publication:
Brown, S., Mena, R., & Brown, S. (2024). The peace dilemma in the triple nexus: challenges and opportunities for the humanitarian–development–peace approach. Development in Practice, 1–17. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09614524.2024.2334774
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.
Institutional website: Berghof Foundation (berghof-foundation.org)
Relevant links:
Inclusive local and national-level dialogue in Lebanon - Berghof Foundation (berghof-foundation.org)
Climate-focused mediation and peacebuilding in Iraq - Berghof Foundation (berghof-foundation.org
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.
Institutional website: Impact Stories – PACIDA (tungana.tech)
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.