Advisory Board

Members of our Advisory Board

Andre Sheldon (USA)

ANDRE SHELDONE is the founder and director of Global Strategy of Nonviolence and the creator and developer of a new global peace movement called a GLOBAL MOVEMENT of NONVIOLENCE, For the Children (GMofNV). A GMofNV designed to unite the world and change our cultures of violence.

Lawal Yekeen Ayodele (Nigeria)

LAWAL YEKEEN AYODELE is a legal/mediation consultant with LLB/BL certification in Alternative Dispute Resolution. He has handled various cases as a mediation consultant spanning over a period of twenty (20) years. He is the Director, Citizens Mediation and Conciliation Centre – Ministry of Justice, Kwara state, Nigeria.

Hella Jinsella (England)

Hella Jinsella is on an unstoppable mission to make sure the power of education is used in favour of peace, not war.

Co-Founder of Executive Director of Demilitarise Education (dED), over the past 5 years Jinsella has led on the development of a comprehensive model for carrying out university demilitarisation. This includes a treaty and the world's first Universities and Arms Database which has so far uncovered over £1bn worth of UK universities partnerships with the military and defence sector. The database is an essential transparency tool designed so students can use evidence-based data to hold their universities accountable for their complicity in war.

Also talk show host for dED Talks and Willing World Peace.’

Francis Matambirofa (Zimbabwe)

Francis Matambirofa is a peace advocate whose principal propulsion uniquely takes origin from his training and teaching of African languages whilst using a comparative perspective. He is Professor (PhD) of Languages, Literature and Culture.

His peace building initiative is rigorously anchored upon drawing attention to African people's shared communalistic Unhu/Ubuntu ethos.

Yurri Sheliazhenko (Ukraine)

YURII SHELIAZHENKO is the Executive secretary, Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (Brussel, Belgium), Member of the Board of Directors, World BEYOND WAR(Charlottresville, V.A,

United States). And a lecturer and Research associate, KROK University (Kyiv, Ukraine).

Nadia Gamal Ebrahim (Yemen)

Nadia Gamal Ebrahim (@EbrahimNadia) A Human Rights Defender, Humanitarian practitioner, expert in protection and an advocate for the rights of women and girls. She is currently leading the Protection program with the Peace Track Initiative (@Peace_Track) as the Protection Coordinator.

Mohammed B Abubakar

Mohammed B. Abubakar is from Nigeria. He is the

founder and Director of THE EMPIRE OF PEACE – a non-governmental

Organization established to promote global peace. He is also the

founder of CENTER FOR PEACEBUILDING ORGANIZATIONS which seeks to build

and promotes peace across the continent of Africa through peace

advocacy and youth empowerment with members in over twenty countries.

Theordore Mbazumutina (Burundi)

Grand Patron

THEODORE MBAZUMUTINA is the Director of a Burundian Peace Building Organisation –Rema Burundi. He holds a PhD in Peacebuilding from Durban University of Technology. As a former refugee himself, He is currently working on a number of projects related to research-based advocacy on Forced Migrant rights in a transitional justice context.

Corazone Valdez-Fabros (Philippines)

Grand Matron

Corazon Valdez-Fabros is the vice president, International Peace Bureau; Chairperson, Peace Women Partners; Lead convener, Stop the War Coalition Philippines; Board Trustee AMRSP-office of Women & Gender Concerns; Core team member, Asia Europe people’s Forum – Peace and Security working group and founding member, National Union of Peoples Lawyers.