Jelena is the research administrator for the Generating Respect for Humanitarian Norms project.

She has worked on international service support contracts and has extensive experience providing administrative and financial support services for the UN, UNHCR and the US Department of State.  From 1992 – 2002, she worked as a field assistant, administrative officer, personnel officer, accounting specialist and resources coordinator on large service support contracts in Bosnia, Angola, East Timor, Australia and Kosovo. She was recently employed as a research administrator supporting an Erasmus Mundus 3-year research project entitled 'Enhancing Studies and Practice of the Social Economy and Social Capital in Higher Education' aimed at informing higher education curriculum design about the 'social economy'. 

Chris, the researcher focusing on Burma/Myanmar for the Generating Respect Project, has a background in forced displacement and humanitarian assistance.

From 1992 to 2006 he worked for a number of organszations assisting refugees and internally displaced people in the United Kingdom, Thailand and Sri Lanka before working in various roles in Asia for Geneva Call for the next decade. He led Geneva Call’s work in Burma/Myanmar for six years, including its humanitarian engagement of over a dozen non-state armed groups. He is currently a consultant, and has undertaken a number of humanitarian and human rights assignments in Burma/Myanmar and other countries. 

Marta is the researcher on Yemen and Syria for the Generating Respect Project and is based at Geneva Call.

She is pursuing her PhD at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her doctoral dissertation studies governance by Salafi-Jihadist armed groups in contexts of civil conflict, looking in particular at Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. The aim is to understand how Salafi-Jihadist groups behave as governors, illuminate the ideological and non-ideological factors that inform their strategies as rulers, and investigate governance variation across Salafi-Jihadist and non-Salafi-Jihadist armed groups. Beyond the specific scope of her doctoral research, Marta’s expertise extends to civil conflicts, insurgencies, violent non-state actors, rebel governance, and political Islam.

Prior to joining St Andrews, Marta obtained her MA from the School of International Studies at the University of Trento, Italy, with a dissertation on Hamas’ transition from terrorism to politics.

Marta has published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and policy reports on various aspects of civil wars, armed groups, and rebel governance with a focus on the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Palestine, Israel). She has also presented her research at various international conferences and workshops, including the United Nations Development Program, the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, and the Graduate Institute in Geneva.

Adelaida is an associate researcher at the York Law School and Centre for Applied Human Rights currently working on the Generating Respect Project focusing on Colombia. Prior to joining York, she lectured at Nueva Granada Military University Law School (2019-2022), Universidad de Los Andes (2019-2020), Universidad del Atlántico (2010-2013), among other Colombian Universities. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Cornell Law School (2016-2017), a research fellow at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy (2016), and at the German Institute for Environmental Strategies – Ökopol (2008-2009). 

She has performed as Director of Research Center, Director of Academic Programme and Deputy Dean at the Law School at the Nueva Granada Military University Law School. She also worked as public official at the Colombian Ministry of Labour (2013), and at the Superior Court of Bogota Justice and Peace Chamber (2022). 

Adelaida holds a PhD in Law and a Master in International Law from the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and an MBA in Sustainability Management of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany). She has researched and taught in the fields of human rights law, international law, transitional and restorative justice, peacebuilding, gender, and constitutional law. She has large experience in qualitative research and fieldwork with sensitive groups such as former combatants and victims of gross human rights violations in Colombia. Her publications can be consulted here.

Nicolás is a storyteller, videographer, video editor and photographer.

He works as a freelancer for international organisations (IOM, Foraus), companies (CIAI, Floraiku) and non-governmental organisations (Civitas Maxima, Southern Voice) to enhance their strategic audio-visual communication.

Nicolás has made two documentaries. "Solidarity Crime. The borders of democracy" (2019, with Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena) tells the story of the criminalization that many European citizens are suffering because of their solidarity with migrants. "Beyond Impunity" (2020), depicts how war-affected communities engage in dialogue about impunity.

Hasnaa is the researcher on Libya for the Generating Respect Project and is based at Geneva Call.

Hasnaa is a consultant on conflict, security, peacebuilding, and gender. For the last seven years, she conducted different consultancies with various organizations working on conflict, armed groups, security and gender issues in Geneva, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco. Hasnaa worked with the Small Arms Survey (SAS) in Geneva, a global centre of excellence generating knowledge on all aspects of small arms and armed violence. She took different roles as Research Assistant, Project Associate, and Outreach Coordinator in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on projects related to conflict dynamics, disarmaments, non- state armed actors, cross-borders issues, arms control and proliferation and security sector reform in Sudan, South Sudan and Libya. Hasnaa has a special interest in militarism, conflict prevention and the role of women in peacebuilding and violence prevention.

In Morocco, she volunteered with different associations and civil society organizations working for development and women’s empowerment projects. Prior to this, she was a researcher with both UNDP and the Global Institute for Water Environment and Health in Geneva working on different projects in the MENA countries.

Hasnaa holds an MA in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and she is finalizing another MA on Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation from Innsbruck University in Austria.

Hawa joined the Generating Respect Project in February 2022 and is based at the Geneva Call Bamako Office.

Hawa worked as as project manager at Humanitarian Dialogue (CHD), where she was in charge of the planning, implementation, execution and monitoring of project activities.

She has also worked with humanitarian organizations, such as the Catholic Relief Services, International Rescue Committee, International Relief and Development as well as consultancy firms.

Hawa has been involved in humans rights education and awareness campaigns on the proliferation of small arms with Amnesty International.

She has conducted research into the factors of insecurity, violent extremism in the regions of the Sahel as well as human rights, and has studied the involvement of women in the mediation processes and the consolidation of peace agreements, the perception of trust between communities in the center of Mali and the public authorities and young people’s thoughts on factors of insecurity and radicalization.

Hawa holds a master’s degree from the University of Mali, and is presently working towards a Master in Project Management, and Quality Management.

Mohamed was a program coordinator at Geneva Call’s Mali country office, as well as a researcher for the Generating Respect Project.

He is a lawyer and educator who studied international humanitarian law at the International Institute of San Remo, Alioune Blondin Beye Peacekeeping School, and international criminal law at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy.

He capitalizes on several years of experience of work with humanitarian organisations, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, Diakonia, the Danish Refugee Council, Terre des hommes (Lausanne). He is from northern Mali and has a good knowledge of contextual realities and actors in the Sahel.

Khin earned her MA Degree in Human Rights and Cultural Diversity from the University of Essex and a B.Sc in Social Work from the Asian Social Institute in Manila.  

In the past, Khin worked as a senior government high school teacher and senior teacher trainer with Mote Oo education. She was a project officer and senior capacity-building officer for conflict management and mitigation projects with the International Rescue Committee in Karen State, as well as a project officer with the international peacebuilding organisation Saferworld focusing on strengthening community security and security sector reform in Southeast Myanmar.

Khin’s experience working for donors, non-governmental organizations and in partnership with local organizations has contributed to her deep understanding of community relations, social cohesion, and the impact of programming on conflict dynamics in Myanmar.

Maria Paula obtained her law degree from the Sergio Arboleda University (Colombia). She has advanced studies in Human Rights from the Washington College of Law (USA), a specialisation in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law from the National University (Colombia) and an MA in Post War Recovery Studies from the University of York (UK).

She has practiced for over nine years in the areas of policy development, research, advocacy, and context analysis and has expertise in gender aspects, right-based approaches, and the protection of vulnerable groups. She has advised governmental institutions on gender, development, human rights, children protection, peace-building and post-conflict aspects.

She has taught gender and human rights in different Colombian universities and has experience conducting field research in Colombia, Thailand, Myanmar and Kosovo.