Oumar Baldet
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Name | Oumar Baldet |
Welcome to our community: How do you define PEACE? | Peace is cooperative relationships build by people through a settlement of institutions aimed to reinforce their willingness to live and progress together, taking in account their diffenrent values and interests. |
How did you find this community? | I met Professor Galtung at the 21st Human Rights Council at Geneva. |
Do you have any professional experience in the field of peace-research? peace-studies? peace-practice? | Yes, I studied Mediation and worked about 7 years in the field of peacebuilding in Africa. During my last position in Guinea as Country Manager of International Alert, I was personally involved not only as manager but also as trainer in mediation and conflict analysis and moderator/facilitator for dialogues in several areas of interest within the country (national reconciliation, governance) and in the neighbouring Mano River Union countries (Youth and Women political participation). |
Are you at all familiar with concepts of Nonviolence and Conflict Transformation? | Yes, I am familiar with these concepts and have done some trainings : |
What are your primary conceptual interests and concerns | Mediation, Dialogue, Governance, Human security, Human rights. |
Location(s) | Geneva |
What is your main regional focus? | Sub Saharian Africa |