Samba Yonga is a communications and media specialist and founder of Zambian based Ku-Atenga Media, a company that specialises in developing bespoke communication platforms and tools with a focus for Africa. The company has consulted for international, regional and local corporate and development firms but her heart is set on using communications as a way to positively affect the collective narrative of Africa's development in a positive and productive way. She is also co-founder of the Zambian Women's History Museum

Allan lives on Vancouver Island where he works in private practice as a family therapist and researcher, and he is primarily concerned with addressing the problem of violence in all its forms and in promoting socially just legal and human services work. Dr. Wade completed his Ph.D. in Psychology in 2000 at the University of Victoria. His dissertation “Resistance to Interpersonal Violence:  Implications for the Practice of Therapy” (2000) examines both resistance to violence and how that resistance is concealed

Malin Nilsson is Secretary General of the Swedish section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, WILPF Sweden. In her work, she advocates for a gendered analysis of security politics and for women’s meaningful participation in the area of peace and security. By working together with women’s rights activists in conflict and post-conflict countries, WILPF has been able to create political will and capacity to address gendered aspects of disarmament and arms control. Malin is passionate about promoting

Dr. Kristina Sehlin MacNeil is a researcher with a background in conflict management and communications. Her current research involves conflicts between extractive industries and indigenous peoples. Kristina has been involved in peace and human rights work since the early 1990´s. In 1997-1998 and 2002-2003 she worked as a project manager for the Åland Islands Peace Institute, leading youth exchanges between Northern Irland and Åland, as well as co-ordinationg the institute´s information and education efforts. Kristina also worked closely with The

Dag Jonzon is an independent broadcast journalist and filmmaker, specialising in global environmental issues, culture and social affairs. In 1975 he founded the first weekly national environmental program for Swedish Radio, the national public service broadcast company. Since then Dag has continued to cover sustainable development issues, working internationally on environmental and natural history series for Swedish TV and TV4. One of his latest films, "The Warden of Sarek", produced for Swedish public broadcaster Swedish TV, reached close to one

Ellinor Ädelroth is Professor emerita in respiratory medicine at Umeå University and a retired respiratory physician.  Her main research interests during her active years were asthma, inflammation , effects of medications on the airways, and also the effects of air pollution on the respiratory system. She has since childhood held a keen interest in what was then called ”third world countries” and has visited several African countries. She was head of the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at