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.

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.

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.

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

Sarah Abusaoud
As the Project Coordinator for Libya, Sarah is responsible for managing the Project Officers in their day-to-day work and reporting. Before joining PCi, Sarah worked for UNHCR Libya as Senior Project Control Assistant. Sarah graduated with a Higher Diploma from the Tripoli Accounting and Administration College.

Lamya Abusahmin
Lamya is responsible for day-to-day coordination of project activities related to the peacebuilding practitioners’ network; this includes communication and monitoring and evaluation. She also supports logistics related to PCi events inside and outside of Libya. Before joining PCi, Lamya worked as a Finance Officer at Radisson Blu Hotels. Lamya holds a Higher National Diploma in Business Administration from BTEC, University of Libya.

Kristine Raunkiær-Jensen
Kristine is PCi’s Conflict Analysis and Conflict Sensitivity Adviser based in Tunis. Kristine works on PCi’s Conflict Sensitive Assistance in Libya (CSA) programme, providing analysis of the conflict in Libya and supporting international assistance providers to strengthen their ability to be conflict sensitive. Prior to joining PCi, Kristine took part in a network of Danish civil society organisations working on conflict prevention. She conducted a conflict sensitivity assessment of a market development programme in Sri Lanka, and, in a consultancy role, provided a range of analysis and advisory services to international assistance providers working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.

Erika Atzori
Erika manages and advises on the Libya ‘Social Peace and Local Development’ project. Prior to this, she was responsible for the ‘Strengthening Local Capacities for Resilience & Recovery’ and ‘Stabilisation Facility for Libya’ projects, implemented in partnership with UNDP. Before joining PCi in 2015, Erika worked at the IC Publications Group in London, producing research and content for events focusing on Africa and the Middle East, and as a Research and Teaching Assistant in History and Institutions of Mediterranean Countries at the University of Bologna. Erika holds an MSc in Middle East Politics from SOAS and an MSc in Development Studies from the University of Bologna.

Artak Ayunts
Artak is currently the Programme Adviser supporting the North Africa programme in Libya. Artak has more than 10 years’ experience in conflict transformation and peacebuilding in the South Caucasus and Central Asian countries. He has also built vast experience in designing research methodologies and conducting surveys. In recent years Artak has been engaged with different international and national not-for-profit organisations managing projects in Armenia-Turkey normalisation, Nagomo-Karabakh conflict and regional South Caucasus format. Artak is the author of more than 20 academic publications and articles.

Abdulqadir Bughararah
Abdulqadir is a National Grant Officer for Libya. He works on preparing, implementing, and monitoring the grants given to the Libyan Social Peace Partnerships. Before working with PCi, Abdulqadir worked for 10 years in the Libyan shipping industry, where he gained managerial experience and increased his network nationwide. He holds a Higher Diploma in Engineering.
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.