Senior Management
Fleur Auzimour Just
Fleur is the Chief Executive Officer, responsible for the day-to-day management of strategy and programming. She has over 10 years’ experience in community-based peacebuilding in Liberia, Ghana, Georgia, Sudan and Syria. She has also worked extensively to build the capacity of international donors, UN peacekeeping missions and local and international NGOs in conflict sensitivity and conflict analysis, in Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Timor-Leste, Kyrgyzstan and Jordan. Previously, she worked as a human rights lawyer for the Australian government. She holds an MA in International Relations (University of Kent), as well as degrees in law and psychology.
Abigail Orr
Abigail is the Finance and Operations Manager, responsible for the day-to-day management of PCi operations. She has over 10 years’ experience in finance and operations, most recently as the Director of Operations for an international managed IT services company, supporting clients in a range of industries and locations. Abigail has degrees from Oxford and Imperial in Physics and Science Communication.
Rebecca Crozier
Rebecca is Programme Development Director and oversees the development of new thematic and geographic work. She has worked in peacebuilding for over 15 years, in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and eastern Europe. Rebecca has acted as an expert witness to UK parliamentary inquiries on the MENA region, foreign aid, and violent extremism. Before joining PCi, Rebecca work for International Alert as Regional Director for Europe, Middle East and North Africa. She has an MSc in Conflict, Security and International Development from the University of Leicester, and a BA in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Birmingham.
College of Advisers
Raj Bhari
Raj is a Senior Peacebuilding Adviser and leads on community peacebuilding programming in Libya and Syria. He has worked in conflict transformation and peacebuilding internationally and in the UK for over 20 years. As a senior adviser to the UK government Raj contributed to the development of national community cohesion policy and practice in the UK. As well as designing and delivering large-scale peacebuilding programmes, Raj also has a strong skillset in mentoring and supporting community-facing peacebuilders, operating in challenging and hostile environments. He currently teaches mediation and peace building skills on the Applied Theatre: Drama in Educational, Community & Social Contexts MA programme at Goldsmiths University, London.
Anthony Foreman
Anthony is a Senior Peacebuilding Adviser working on the Black Sea, Libya and Serbia and Kosovo programmes. He has over 10 years’ experience in international development working for local non-governmental and international organisations and the United Nations agencies. This has involved conflict research, facilitating dialogue, economic development and community building for conflict-affected populations, as well capacity building to bring the views of such populations to local, national and international decision-making processes through advocacy. He has worked with populations from the conflicts in Liberia, Sudan (Darfur), Chechnya, Moldova and across the territories of the South Caucasus.
Tim Molesworth
Tim is Senior Adviser, Conflict Sensitivity and Peace Technology. He oversees the conflict sensitivity portfolio. He has extensive experience working as a UNDP Consultant, primarily in the Middle East, designing and delivering peacebuilding activities, developing peacebuilding strategy and programme design, undertaking conflict analysis, developing conflict sensitivity policy, and incorporating conflict sensitivity into projects and programmes. In 2016, Tim set up humanidev.tech, a company working to develop technological solutions for the international humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors. With humanidev.tech, Tim has developed OPSECA, an online contextual analysis tool that aims to better link programming design to conflict-sensitive understanding.
Craig Oliphant OBE
Craig is Senior Adviser, Conflict and Security Issues, working on the Black Sea and Serbia and Kosovo programmes. He previously worked at Saferworld (2011-2015) as policy adviser on Europe/Central Asia. Before that, he was in the British diplomatic service for several years and was Head of Eastern Research Group at the FCO, dealing with Russia and Eastern Europe. From June 2014, he took on an additional role as the UK independent expert on the Council of Europe Advisory Committee for the FCNM (Framework Convention on National Minorities). He was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2011.
Nenad Sebek
Nenad Sebek has worked as an independent international consultant for media and civil society over the last two years. Previously, he was Director of the Belgrade office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Spokesperson for the Regional Cooperation Council and Executive Director of the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe. Nenad was a journalist for 26 years, 17 with the BBC, covering the Balkans through the tumultuous 1990s and then correspondent in Moscow. Sebek also lectures on the postgraduate course in Human rights at Vienna University’s Faculty of Law.
Programme Leads
Ian Bancroft
Ian Bancroft has been based in the former Yugoslavia for over a decade. He has worked for the EU in Kosovo, and the OSCE in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and has written extensively about Balkan affairs for a variety of publications, including The Guardian and Radio Free Europe. He has lectured on conflict and peacebuilding, and recently published a book, ‘Dragon’s Teeth: Tales from North Kosovo’. He authored a chapter entitled ‘Reconciliation through Recognition’ in ‘The Yugoslav Example: Violence, War and Difficult Ways Towards Peace’, and has also written travel articles for, among others, Wine Spectator, The Independent and Open Democracy.
Bashar Eltalhi
Bashar is Country Manager for Libya. Previously, Bashar worked as a National Professional Officer within the Security Sector Advisory and Coordination Division at UNSMIL, where he played a prominent role in providing the team with local perspectives on the Libyan situation. Bashar holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology.
Libya Team
Nada Markous
Nada is Deputy Country Manager for Libya, responsible for strategic planning, programme delivery, project management, and financial management. Before joining PCi, Nada was Office Manager at the Commerzbank Representative’s Office in Libya. Nada graduated in Business Administration and Information Technology.
Nabiel Rafalla
Nabiel is the Project Officer for the eastern region of Libya. He has worked in the field of general contracting for more than ten years. Nabil obtained a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Benghazi
Serein Sharda
Serein is responsible for monitoring and evaluation of grants. Before joining PCi, Serein worked for Bankera as a Business Development Manager. Serein holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance from Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. She was a participant at UNESCO’s Regional Education for Sustainable Development Workshop for Arab Youth Leaders in Beirut.
Riyad Boumtari
Riyad is a Junior Peacebuilding Consultant in the Libya office. He has extensive experience working as a trainer on various projects including the Constitution Ambassador’s Programme (funded by the EU) and the Convergence Project that sought to improve awareness of local administration laws (funded by the DAI Foundation). Riyad holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Benghazi.
Lamis Ben Aiyad
Lamis is responsible for maintaining an up to date understanding of peace and conflict dynamics and conflict sensitivity considerations in Libya, using social media, media monitoring and other sources. She has acquired experience over the last four years working for both local and international organisations, focused on deepening and expanding the role of young people and women in peace processes, intersected identities in conflict-affected environments, and minority rights.
Ibrahim Shebani
Ibrahim was one of the founders and creative director of Alentishar Media agency, managing many media outlets such as Alassema TV, The Libyan Magazine and Radio Zone. After 2011, he became more involved in civil society and participated in youth empowerment conferences providing media support. This led to a democracy fellowship at Syracuse University in the USA with two months’ training at Freedom House. In 2014, Ibrahim moved to Jordan to join the founding team of Libya’s Channel and Libyan Business TV and in 2018 became the Sales and Marketing Manager for BBC Media Action, North Africa office.
Europe and South Caucasus Team
Stefana Subaric
Stefana gained experience working with civil society organisations in Kosovo and has worked for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). More recently, she has been employed as a senior accounts manager for a financial services firm in Belgrade. Stefana holds a BA in Security Studies from Belgrade University.
Tetiana Kalenychenko
Tetiana is the National Peacebuilding Adviser for the Black Sea programme. Tetiana has experience working in peacebuilding and community development for national and international organisations in Ukraine; she is also a trained facilitator. She studied Sociology (BA, 2012) and Religious Studies (MA, 2014), and recently defended her PhD in Sociology of Religion (2018). She has worked on developing tools for conflict and context analysis that are current and practical to implement. Tetiana’s specific area of interest is religion and conflict.
Emin Redžepagić
Emin has over 20 years of experience with international and national organisations, such as People in Need, UNHCR, European centre for Minority Issues, Terre des hommes, Danish Refugee Council, and more. Throughout his career, his roles have focused on field presence, working with different communities and decision makers on a variety of issues in Kosovo and the region. Emin holds a degree in Economics from Alfa BK University in Belgrade and has attended the Political Academy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Germany and Kosovo. He is currently undertaking the Balkanistics Study Programme at the University of Pristina.
East and Southern Africa Team
Sophia Ngigi
Sophia is a peacebuilding Advisor working on Swahili project in East and Southern Africa. She Joined PCi in May 2023 to support in implementation of Swahili project which is being implemented along Swahili coast of Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique. She has over 12 years in peacebuilding within Eastern African region with a great focus on young people. She has worked within the NGO sector in the region. Sophia is experienced trainer and in research on peace issues with thin the Eastern African Region. She is undertaking PHD in Social transformation and hold an MA in Development Studies from the University of Nairobi and a BA in sociology and philosophy from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa.
Lorenzo Giuliani
Lorenzo is a Project Officer, specialising in program development and conflict sensitivity, primarily focusing on PCi projects in Mozambique and in the Swahili coast. He joined PCi in 2021 to support a project in the Western Balkans. Lorenzo holds an MA in International Studies from the University of Turin and a BA in Political Sciences from the University of Cagliari.