Staff Members – European Peacebuilding Liaison Office

EPLO Staff

Sonya Reines-Djivanides

Executive Director

Ben Moore

Assistant Director

Maria Cipriani

Programme Assistant

Tel.: +32 (0)2 233 37 33

Lorenzo Angelini

Policy Officer

Lorenzo Conti

Policy Officer

Laura Davis

Senior Associate, Gender, Peace and Security

Katja Niemi

Policy Officer

Najoua Sbai

Finance and Administration Manager

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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
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

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By Lorenzo Angelini In recent years, the European Union (EU) has made clear that it is committed to supporting young women and men’s participation in decision-making processes and the roles that they can play in preventing conflict and building peace. In particular, in June 2020, the Council of the EU adopted conclusions on ‘youth in […]