All Party Parliamentary Group for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Those present at the launch meeting of APPG on 20.11.01.

Members of Parliament and associates

Malcolm Savidge, MP

Lord Hannay of Chiswick
(British Ambassador to UN, 1990 - 1995)

Dame Veronica Sutherland
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge (ex-diplomat)

Lord Hylton MA, ARICS
Chairman: MICOM (Working through a partner NGO in Moldova for community development and conflict resolution)
President: Northern Ireland Assn. for Care and Resettlement of Offenders
Vice-chairman: Partners in Hope (Working through Russian partners for benefit of children and young people in Moscow region)
(Has some knowledge of conflicts in Caucasus - Turkey and Middle East as well as N. I.)

Lembit Opik, MP
Lib. Dem. Member for Montgomeryshire
Leader of Lib. Dems in Wales
Party spokesman on Northern Ireland

Paul Marsden MP
Labour member for Shrewsbury and Atcham

Michael Connarty MP
Labour member for Falkirk East

Helen Jackson, MP

Gavin Cox
Press Officer, Welsh Liberal Democrats
National Assembly for Wales


Representatives of NGOs and others

Shapur Amin
(Afghan Academy)

Indra Adnan
(Director, Conflict and Peace Forums:
Focus - conflict transformation and peace journalism)

Sayed Ismail Shaiwan
(BBC Pashto Section)

A.R. Rahimghiyasa
(Afghani lawyer)
Abdul Rahim Aslami

Prince Mohsin Ali Khan
(founder of One Nation of All Faiths, previously known as Muslim, Christian and Jewish Society)

Vivien Lichtenstein
(British Friends of Peace Now)

Dr. N. Enayat

Moeen Yaseen
(Global Vision 2000)

Krystyna Stevenson
(Psychologist)

Jacek T. Gienlinski

Jennifer Connell

Surjit Singh
(South Asia Cultural Heritage Centre UK)

Eirwen Harbottle
(Peace Child International; Worldwide Consultative Association of Retired Generals and Admirals)

Saida Nusseibeh

Clare Nicola Xavier
(Diplomatic studies - researcher - currently working for DEFRA)

Julie Ashdown
(Conflict Prevention Section
United Nations Dept., Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Alice Kadel
(IIPSGP)

Marigold Bentley
(Assistant General Secretary, Quaker Peace and Social Witness)

Dave Allport
(Senior Health Promotion Officer, Sandwell Health Authority, Kingston House, 438, High Street, West Bromwich, West Midlands B70 9LD; also Youth Work, Anti-Racism and Community Development)

Duncan Little
(Education Manager - formal sector, Save the Children Fund)

Mary Young
(Education Department, OXFAM)

Tony Klug
(Co-chair, Council for Jewish - Palestine Dialogue)

Matilda Forster
(Christian International Peace Service)

Ms. Abidemi Sanusi
(Alliances for Africa)

Rev. Marcus Braybrooke
(President, World Congress of Faiths; Patron, International Interfaith Centre; co-founder, Three Faiths Forum)

Professor Abdul Khaleq Lalzad
(Afghani; Visiting fellow at South Bank University)

Richard and Diana Rhodes
(Seed of Life Peace Foundation)

Jackie Hoskins
(Campaigns and Parliamentary Officer
Conscience - the Peace Tax Campaign)

Jeffrey Segall
(UNGA - Link UK)

Prince Frederick von Saxe Lauenberg
(Children of the World 2000)

Dr. Thomas Daffern
(Director, International Institute for Peace Studies and Global Philosophy)