Staff Members – European Peacebuilding Liaison Office

EPLO Staff

Lorenzo Angelini

Senior Policy Officer

Maria Cipriani

Programme Assistant

Lorenzo Conti

Policy Officer

Laura Davis

Senior Associate, Gender, Peace and Security

Ben Moore

Assistant Director

Katja Niemi

Policy Officer

Sonya Reines-Djivanides

Executive Director

Marie Lena Groenewald

Policy Assistant

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EPLO welcomes your enquiries about the EU and peacebuilding.

Issue	Staff Member
Peacebuilding and EU institutions and policies (Working Group) Member State advocacy	Katja Niemi
Civil Society Dialogue Network EPLO membership Funding for peacebuilding (Working Group)	Ben Moore
Gender, peace and security (Working Group)	Laura Davis
Climate Crisis and Peacebuilding (Working Group) Peacebuilding and Development EU-Africa Relations (Working Group) Academic Friends of EPLO	Lorenzo Angelini
Climate Crisis and Peacebuilding (Working Group) Gender, peace and security (Working Group) Peacebuilding and Development	Marie Lena Groenewald
Middle East and North Africa (Working Group) Mediation Eastern Neighbourhood & Western Balkans Latin America EPLO Brown Bag Lunch events Newsletters	Lorenzo Conti
Logistics for events organised in the framework of the Civil Society Dialogue Network EPLO’s social media accounts (Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and YouTube) Support to the Communications Community of Practice (CCoP)	Maria Cipriani
Financial management Administration	Najoua Sbai
Civil Society Dialogue Network EPLO membership Steering Committee	Sonya Reines-Djivanides

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EPLO Blog

Water, Peace and Conflict: Recommendations from Civil Society
By Marie Lena Groenewald and Lorenzo Angelini In recent years, the European Union (EU) has made clear that it is committed to addressing the linkages between the climate crisis, water resources, and peace and conflict dynamics. The EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy (2016), the Climate Change and Defence Roadmap (2020), the new […]
The EU and the Sahel: Strengthening Responsive Governance and Public Service Delivery
By Lorenzo Angelini The Sahel region faces a number of governance, development and security challenges, which are often interlinked. While some of them are specific to individual countries, others are similar across borders or are transnational in nature. In order to address these challenges, the Heads of State of Burkina Faso, Chad, France, Mali, Mauritania […]