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Klubosumo Johnson Borh is the 2023 MBBI Peacebuilder of the Year for his efforts in Liberia, specifically trauma healing and psychosocial support for Liberian ex-combatants. He has also been actively engaged in the MBBI Sierra Leone project for years and has recently become the Team Leader.  Furthermore, Borh is a 2021 Rainer Arnhold Fellow of Social Entrepreneur/Social…

Jeff Hasenfratz is an executive leadership coach, group facilitator, budding mediator, and Rotarian who has discovered a calling to help heal divides by bringing people together to engage in open, compassionate dialogue. Originally from Ohio, Jeff has lived and worked abroad for over 30 years: first in Hong Kong, then in Shanghai, China. Looking forward,…

As a certified mediator and lawyer from Kazakhstan, Alibi Akylas is establishing a professional path in mediation in the United States. Akylas’s journey to mediation started out over a decade ago, when he began his career in litigation and arbitration. Background Alibi Akylas is a certified mediator and lawyer from Kazakhstan. Akylas’s background has influenced…

Theatre of the Oppressed was created by Brazilian theatre director and political activist Augusto Boal in the 1970s as an antidote to the theatre of the authoritative class that routinely used the stage as a tool to maintain its dominance. The story goes that Boal and his theatre group performed an agitprop play to peasants…

Nicole Angela Williams is a newly certified family mediator from Toronto, Canada, who is devoted to guiding families through challenging transitions with compassion. With over 20 years of experience as a healer and birth doula, Nicole is passionate about supporting people through times of crisis and change. She sees her recent shift to mediation as…

Congratulations to Prabha Sankaranarayan for receiving the The David Brandon Community Mediation Movement Catalyst Award – National! On October 3, 2023, MBBI’s President and CEO Prabha Sankaranarayan won the inaugural David Brandon Community Mediation Movement Catalyst Award – National award from NAFCM. This award honors David Brandon, the Managing Director of the JAMS Foundation. At…

A Journey to Peacebuilding Andreas is a peacebuilding activist currently based in Germany, with a professional background in social work, primarily with experience in working with troubled youth and mentally handicapped young adults. His first contact with peace and human rights work was in the 1990s, through his participation in anti-racist action groups that advocated…

Nariman Hamo is a meditation teacher and peacebuilder from Syria, whose mission is to empower people to find inner peace as a path to social change. After spending years working as an activist, Nariman decided to transform her approach to peace after a period of burnout led her to realise that “individual wellbeing is the…

Sellah King’oro is a mediator, advocate, researcher and agent of peace, based in Kenya, who is devoted to resolving communal conflicts and advancing women’s leadership. Guided by an unwavering belief that with empathy, courage and wisdom, a more just future is possible, Sellah exemplifies how mediators can cultivate peace interpersonally, while transforming unequal social systems…

Joan McWilliams is an attorney, mediator, peacemaker, and writer from Denver, Colorado, who has devoted her career to compassionate conflict resolution and family wellbeing. Through her pioneering mediation practice focused on amicable divorce, legislative advocacy for ethical reforms, authoring books guiding families through divorce, and championing peacemaking as a core tenet of dispute resolution, she…