About Us

The Africa Mediation Association (AMA) is a non-profit organization that works collaboratively with citizens, public and private institutions to enhance the application of mediation as a viable and amicable dispute resolution model.

Our Goal

We aim to strategically promote mediation as a results-oriented and impactful alternative dispute resolution mechanism among the citizens and institutions in Africa.

Our Objectives

The promotion of the code of conduct and standards for mediation in Africa
Advocacy to regional and sub-regional institutions to strengthen capacity and the effectiveness of the use of mediation.
To organize exchange and learning conferences.
To strengthen early warning and response mechanisms.

Research activities (for example, national and regional studies on the practical reception, specificities, and tools used for mediation in Africa).
Educating citizens and institutions on the need to prioritize mediation and not be quick to take cases to the court.
To develop a flexible manual for mediation in Africa.
To establish and observe the Africa Mediation Day annually.

AMA Executive Committee Profiles

Mr. Mangerere is the President of the Africa Mediators Association (AMA), and President of the Mediation Training Institute East Africa. He also serves as Patron Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) East Africa, board member and Governor of the International Mediation Institute (IMI), and Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators. Mr. Mangerere is a Senior Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, a member UN Office of the Ombudsman Global Panel of Mediators, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London.

Dr Sokfa John is the programme director for mediation practice at the Centre for Mediation in Africa (CMA), University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a member of the Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI), for which he is a co-lead for Southern Africa on the African Rotary Community Mediation Initiative (ARCoM). Sokfa is both an academic and a practicing mediator. He works on a broad range of conflict and peacemaking issues, but specializes in ethnic, religious and racial conflicts, digital conflicts, peace mediation, and conflict transformation. His current research explores local African resources and tools for transformative multi-track mediation.

Theophilus Ekpon is the General Secretary of the Africa Mediation Association (AMA). He also serves as the Secretary to the International Advisory Board (IAB) of AMA. Prior to this position, he worked for the United Nations in New York, Ethiopia and Nigeria. Theophilus Ekpon was Executive Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development and Education in Africa (CSDEA), co-Chair of the Knowledge Management Taskforce of the UN led Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security (GCYPS), co-Chair of the Nigeria Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security (NCYPS), and Technical Lead for the development and implementation of the Nigeria National Action Plan on YPS. He serves as a YPS Focal Point for the UNDP headquarters led International Dialogue for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS), and a member of the UNPBSO led International Advisory Committee of the Five Years Strategic Plan on the implementation of the YPS agenda. Together with Inmedio Institute and Boscop (both based in Germany), and Mediators Beyond Borders, Mr. Ekpon has conducted trainings for traditional leaders, civil society, and local government officials across Africa on the application of mediation as an alternative dispute resolution model. He was the Chair of the Hague based Global Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS), where he also served on the Executive Committee in charge of Global Policy and Engagement, national cohesion, including issues of countering and preventing violent extremism. He was the CSPPS Country Representative for Nigeria. Mr. Ekpon is a Research Fellow and Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IPPIA), United States International University.

Hela is a 1997 graduate of law and political science from the University of Tunisia. She holds a masters degree in criminal sciences from the same university, A diploma in mediation from the Catholic University of Paris, and was called to the Tunisian Bar in 2000, and the Cessation Court in 2004. She specializes in intellectual property, insurance, shipping, and aviation laws, and served as legal/business adviser to several companies. Hela taught criminal law at the University of Tunis between 2000 and 2006, and was at various times a consultant to the Council of Europe and GIZ. She was also the Coordinator of the Center for Lawyer’s Studies, Research and Documentation (CERDA).

Ms. Hela has conducted several mediation trainings and served as guest speaker in several fora. Her publications include: A thesis in mediation entitled: Mediation in Tunisia: a new strategy for the lawyer in conflict management. 2020; A paper prepared with a published colleague on the topic: "Avvocato & mediazione" published in a collective work (in Spanish language) entitled: "La mediacion por el mundo: un camino hacia la paz, mediacion y mediadores, principios y tecnicas de mediacion".Argentina 2019; Paper published (in Italian language) on the topic: "il camino verso la mediazione civile e commerciale in Tunisia" published in "I quaderni di conciliazione n°8" "Percorsi Mediterrani di Mediazione per la pace" University of Cagliari Italy 2018; A book entitled : accounting offenses in the commercial companies code (in Arabic, published by MultiPrest Group in 2004).

She serves as the Athletes' Commission president within the Tunisian Rowing Federation, and the Athletes' Commission president within the African Rowing Federation. Hela holds the title of the First Star in Scuba Diving (CMAS), and speaks Arabic, French, Italian, and English fluently.

Crispin Wura-sey Ziekah is a lawyer and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He is presently the Assistant Legal Aid Officer and Acting Regional Head of the Legal Aid Commission, Upper West Region, Ghana. He previously served as a Junior Associate with the Nana Obiri Boahen Ansah and Associates, and as the Director for the Northern Ghana program of the e-Syllabus for Africa. Crispin holds a Bachelors of Law and a Bachelors of Science in Natural Resource Management from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

Dr Agada Elachi is a practicing lawyer called to the Nigerian bar in 1999. He holds a doctorate degree in Public Policy and Administration specializing in Terrorism, Mediation and Peace (Walden, U.S.A), and a Masters degree in Law. He is a SEC certified capital market operator and, is actively engaged in investment advising and commercial law practice. He also has vast experience in litigating cases before all levels of court in Nigeria. He is the President of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators. He was Registrar of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators. He is a life member of the governing council of ICMC. He also served as Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Abuja branch and in several other positions within the profession. He consults and serves as a resource person for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), the Justice for All Programme (J4A) of the DFID, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), Settlement House, the International Centre for Arbitration and Mediation Abuja, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), the Legal Defence Assistance Programme (LEDAP), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and GIZ Nigeria. He is also an adjunct lecturer at the Nasarawa State University Faculty of Law, a former member of the Executive committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) Nigeria branch, Chairman of the Editorial Committee of the Chartered of Arbitrators (UK) Nigeria branch, and Chairman of the ADR Committee of the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU).

Profiles for Members of AMA’s International Advisory Board (IAB)

Cori Wielenga is an associate professor in the Department of Political Sciences and the Director of the Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria. She holds a PhD in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from the University of KwaZulu Natal. Her research interest is in non-state actors in mediation processes and the intersection of formal and informal governance and justice systems during transitions.

This has led to in-depth research on Rwanda’s gacaca courts, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and comparative projects on mediation processes, and informal justice and governance systems in South Africa, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Namibia. Findings from these projects are intended to inform emerging peacebuilding, mediation and transitional justice policies and guidelines in Africa and further abroad. Cori Wielenga also has an extensive network of state and non-state institutions and individuals in the mediation and peacebuilding sector, including foreign embassies in Pretoria, international mediation organizations, and the African Union.

Professor Glaesser holds a full professorship of mediation, conflict management and procedural theory at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)/Germany.

She is the academic director of the Institute for Conflict Management and the postgraduate, interdisciplinary Master’s Program on Mediation at the European University. She is also responsible for the key competencies portfolio and curriculum of the law department. Her academic teaching and research covers the following subject areas: mediation, conflict management, conflict resolution procedures, Civil Procedure Law, Private Law (contracts, torts), and Family Law. She holds law degrees from the University of Bonn/Germany and from Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley/USA. She completed her Ph.D. degree at the European University Frankfurt (Oder).

Ms. Glaesser has been teaching mediation, negotiation and ADR skills at a number of universities in Germany and abroad, for the German Academy of Judges, the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and numerous other institutions. She is continuously involved in research projects focusing on different fields of mediation and conflict resolution – namely the establishment of mediation and other ADR procedures in the German corporate sector, on court-annexed mediation and family mediation and on the potential of ADR in the field of Business and Human Rights. She has published broadly on mediation methodology, the legal framework of mediation in Germany and Europe, quality assurance of mediation and other ADR procedures as well as Online Dispute Resolution. She is editor of two Publication Series on Mediation and Conflict Management and a commentary on the German Mediation Act. Another area of research and publication is didactics of teaching law and conflict resolution skills. As a practical mediator and facilitator, Ms Glaesser supports dispute resolution and decision making processes within and between organizations/corporations. She is member of the German Mediators’ Association and the renowned International Academy of Mediators (IAM). Her work has taken her to Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Senegal, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States.

Emeka J.P. Obegolu, SAN, PhD is a Senior and Founding Partner of Greenfield Chambers. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka where he obtained his LL.B. (Hons), and has since been called to the Nigerian Bar. He holds a Master’s degree in Mineral Law and Policy (LL.M.) from the University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, a Doctorate degree in Arbitration from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, and a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK). He is a practicing Arbitrator and Mediator, holding Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC), with much experience acting as Sole Arbitrator, Presiding Arbitrator and Counsel in commercial arbitrations, and Mediator in labour, commercial, family and communal disputes.

He is an accredited Neutral of the Uwais Dispute Resolution Centre (formerly Abuja Multi-door Courthouse), the Federal High Court ADR Centre, the Nigerian Chambers of Commerce Dispute Resolution Centre, the Edo State Multi-door Courthouse, the Abia State Multi-door Courthouse, the Ogun State Multi-door Courthouse, and the Plateau State Multi-door Courthouse. He has spoken in many conferences over the years, some of which are Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators, Tanzania Institute of Arbitrators, Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators, International Bar Association, Pan African Lawyers Union, and Deutshche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and is an experienced Trainer with a concentration on Arbitration, Negotiation and Mediation.

Emeka is a past President and Life Member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators, a past President of the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU), a past National General Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, a past National Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, a past Council member of the Council of Legal education, and a past member of the Governing Council of the Legal Aid Council. He is the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Chambers of Commerce Dispute Resolution Centre (NCCDRC), the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Institute of ADR Registrars, and the 1^st Deputy President of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). He also sits on the Board of Trustees and Governing Council of the Gemstones Miners and Marketers Association of Nigeria and the Abuja Chamber of Commerce Business and Entrepreneurship Skills Acquisition Centre, respectively. Emeka is a member of the IBB Golf and Country Club and is married with children.

Professor Tim Murithi, Extraordinary Professor, Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa, Faculty of Military Science, University of Stellenbosch and Head of the Peacebuilding Interventions Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, in Cape Town, South Africa. He is also Extraordinary Professor of African Studies at the Centre for African and Gender Studies, University of Free State, South Africa. He was previously Claude Ake Visiting Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University and Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden. He is Research Associate, Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa, University of Cape Town; Research Associate, African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Witswatersrand. He is also a Board Member and Senior Associate at the Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria, and former Senior Research Associate at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden. He has over 28 years of experience in peace, security, governance, transitional justice and development in Africa. He is a former member of the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa Technical Committee. He has held the following posts: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, United Kingdom; Head of Programme, Institute for Security Studies, Addis Ababa; Research Fellow, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town; Senior Researcher, Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town; and Programme Officer, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva, Switzerland; and Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town. From 1995 to 1998 he taught at the Department for International Relations, Keele University, England, where he also obtained his Ph.D in International Relations.

He has also served as an Adviser and Consultant to the African Union Commission for Political Affairs, Peace and Security (PAPS), Pan-African University, and African Citizens Directorate (CIDO), Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), UN Office for Special Advisor on R2P/Genocide Prevention, UN Development Programme, UN Economic Commission for Africa, UKAID (DFID), and German GIZ. He is on the Boards of the African Union Leadership Academy (AULA,) and Democracy Beyond Borders (DWB).

Professor Murithi is on the International Advisory Boards of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, African Journal of Conflict Resolution (ACCORD), Journal of African Union Studies and African Peace and Conflict Journal (UPEACE), Brazilian Journal of African Studies and the journal Peacebuilding. He has authored over 110 journal articles, book chapters and policy papers. He is the author and editor of 12 books, including as author: The African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and Development (Ashgate, 2005) and The Ethics of Peacebuilding (Edinburgh University Press, 2009); Judicial Imperialism: The Politicisation of International Criminal Tribunals (Jacana, 2019); co-author of The African Union Peace and Security Architecture: A Handbook (FES, 2014). He is co-editor of: Elections, Violence and Transitional Justice (Routledge, 2022); The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding (I.B.Tauris, 2018); The African Union and its Institutions (Jacana, 2008); The African Union Peace and Security Council: A Five Year Appraisal (ISS, 2012); and Zimbabwe in Transition: A View from Within (Jacana, 2011). He is the editor of Routledge Handbook of Africa’s International Relations (Routledge, 2014) and editor of Towards a Union Government of Africa: Challenges and Opportunities (ISS, 2008) and of The Politics of Transitional Justice in the Great Lakes Region (Jacana, 2016). He is General Editor of the Routledge/Europa Series on Perspectives in Transitional Justice.

Elizabeth (Liz) Hume is the Executive Director at the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She is an international lawyer and a conflict expert with more than 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions in bilateral, multilateral institutions and NGOs. She has extensive experience in policy and advocacy and overseeing sizeable and complex peacebuilding programs in conflict-affected and fragile states in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.

From 1997-2001, Liz was seconded by the US Department of State to the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo as the Chief Legal Counsel and Head of the Election Commission Secretariats. In these positions, she was responsible for developing the legal framework and policies in support of the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and UN Resolution 1244. After 9/11, Liz worked for the International Rescue Committee in Pakistan and Afghanistan where she established and managed the Protection Department for Afghan refugees and returning IDPs. Starting in 2004, she served in leadership positions and helped establish the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation at USAID developing programs and policies to improve the USG’s ability to address the causes of violent deadly conflict. In 2007, Liz was the Chief of Party for Pact where she managed a USAID funded conflict resolution and governance program in Ethiopia. She also served as a Technical Director at FHI 360 where she managed a USAID funded peacebuilding and governance program in Senegal with a focus on the Casamance one of Africa’s longest-running civil wars.

Liz is also an experienced mediator, and she is a frequent guest lecturer and author on conflict analysis and peacebuilding in conflict-affected and fragile states.

Liz holds a BA from Boston College, a JD from Vermont Law School, and a MA in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding from California State University, Dominguez Hills. She lives in Falls Church City, VA with her husband in a much cleaner and quieter house since their twin girls went to University.

Prabha Sankaranarayan is the President and CEO of Mediators Beyond Borders International, an international impact organization whose mission is to build local skills for peace and promote mediation worldwide. She is committed to partnership, as evidenced by the organization’s collaboration with over 130 organizations globally. She co/leads MBBI’s recent partnership with Rotary International, a global network of 1.2 million members, with NAFCM, a North American network of over 300 mediation centers and the recently formed TRUST Network the first Early Warning and Response platform in the USA. She is a conflict transformation practitioner who has mediated, facilitated and trained in Europe, Asia, Africa and the USA. Her public and private sector work includes conflict analysis for public/private partnerships, consultation & assessment for industrial development zones, design and implementation of trainings for multinational corporations; inter faith dialogues as well as facilitation of multi-stakeholder mediations. In her capacity as CEO of MBBI she designs conflict transformation and capacity building programs around the world, serves as a consultant for companies, policy makers, governments, universities and groups engaged in civil resistance and serves as an advisor on the role of women in peace and security.

Prabha is involved in regional, national and international civic activities focused on civil liberties, violence prevention, conflict mitigation & mediation and the recovery & rehabilitation of trauma survivors. She serves on the ASEAN Regional Forum’s (ARF) Expert and Eminent Persons (EEP) Group for the US Government. Her current Advisory & Board appointments include The Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, VISIONS Inc. (a DEI organization in USA) and Women’s International Peace Center (WIPC in Uganda).

Philip Hackett K.C. was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1978 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999. He has practiced extensively in the Courts of England and many other jurisdictions, specializing in commercial and regulatory matters, many with an international aspect. In recent years he has focused on the practice and teaching of alternative dispute resolution in cross-border disputes. Philip Hackett K.C. is the President of the Geneva International Dispute Resolution Institute (GIDI) and regularly conducts seminars on international mediation. He is a member and lecturer in a number of important Chinese dispute resolution centres and has experience of dispute resolution in East and West Africa, the US and the Caribbean as well as the Far East. He teaches and practices the GIDI model of international alternative dispute resolution which promotes a facilitative approach to mediation that recognizes and seeks to resolve differences of national culture and legal norms which underpin many international commercial disputes.

Ms. Rosemary is a certified mediator and holds a PhD in International Studies from the University of Nairobi. She presently serves as the Technical Adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff (Policy) in the office of the Cabinet Secretary, Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She also works as an External Examiner for the Department of Political and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg, and as a Professor at the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, University of Nairobi. She previously served as Lecturer at the Kenyan Defence Staff College; Adjunct Lecturer at the Kenyan National Defence College; Lecturer, Department of Governance and Public Policy, The Technical University of Kenya; Political Officer, Europe & Commonwealth Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya; and Political Officer, Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya.

She spent some time studying at the Kenya Institute of Administration, the Nyerere Centre for Peace Research in Arusha, and the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. Her publications include: Rosemary Anyona, “New Wine in Old Wineskins? Renegotiation of Peace Agreements and its Challenge to Theory of Conflict Management” in Contemporary Security in Africa: Journal of the National Defence College, Kenya, 2020; Rosemary Anyona, “Public Participation in the War on Terrorism: the Case of Kenya”, in Contemporary Security in Africa: Journal of the National Defence College, Kenya, Volume 4, Number 1, April 2018; Rosemary Anyona, “A Comparative Analysis of the Implementation of Peace Agreements: the Case of Mozambique and Angola”, in Contemporary Security in Africa: Journal of the National Defence College, Kenya, Volume 2, Number 1, March 2014; Rosemary M. Anyona, “Kenya’s Foreign Policy (2013-2017) and African Renaissance” in Francis Onditi et al., Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order (London: Lexington Books, 2019); Rosemary M. Anyona, “Rethinking Pan-Africanism: the African Renaissance” in Rosemary Anyona and Makumi Mwagiru (eds), Re-Emerging Pan-Africanism: Vol. 1: Implications for Foreign and Security Policy in Africa (Nairobi, Three Legs Consortium,2019); Rosemary M. Anyona, “Participation of the Public in Building the New Pan-Africanism” in Rosemary Anyona and Makumi Mwagiru (eds), Re-Emerging Pan-Africanism: Vol. 1: Implications for Foreign and Security Policy in Africa (Nairobi, Three Legs Consortium, 2019); Rosemary Anyona, “The Mountain Must Go to Mohammed: Reflecting on a Kenyan Public Diplomacy Strategy for Winning the Hearts and Minds of Somalia’s Citizenry”, in Makumi Mwagiru and Kigen Morumbasi (eds), Countering Violent Extremism in Kenya Vol. 2: Emerging National Security Perspectives (Nairobi:Thirty-Three Consortium, 2018); Rosemary Anyona and Makumi Mwagiru (eds), Re-Emerging Pan-Africanism: Vol. 1: Implications for Foreign and Security Policy in Africa (forthcoming); Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making in Kenya (1963-2022) (on-going). Rosemary speaks English and French fluently.

Beryl is the Founder and Managing Partner of the B.A Ouma & Associates Advocates in Nairobi, Kenya. She has extensive experience in professional mediation including in handling commercial disputes, immigration and labour matters in the Lower Court, the High Court, and the Court of Appeal in Kenya. She had previously worked as a Senior Associate with the Archer Wilcock & Company Advocates, Nairobi, and as Associate with Salim Dhanji & Company Advocates in Nairobi.

Ms. Beryl is a Certified Professional Mediator with the Mediation Training Institute for East Africa, and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She holds a Bachelors Degree in History, Literature and Political Science from Jabalpur University in India, Bachelors Degree in Law from Kolhapur University in India, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Law from the Kenyan School of Law. She is presently the Vice Chair of the Institute for Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC), and Governor at the Kenyan Christian Homes. She is also a member of the Law Society of Kenya, member of the Rotary Club of Lang’ata, and member of the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA). Beryl had previously served as the President of the Rotary Club of Nairobi, and Chaired a Mediation Committee ordered by the Kenyan Court of Appeal which successfully mediated a long standing dispute between two rival groups of the Arya Community in Kenya.

AMA Secretariat Staff

Vera de Amorim Araújo is a programme officer based in the Hague, the Netherlands. Vera holds a Bachelor of Science in International Relations from the University of Minho and a Master of Science in International Development Studies with a specialization in Politics and Governance of Development from Wageningen University & Research. Her professional journey includes roles in logistics coordination in Iceland, academic consultancy in the Netherlands, and ethnographic research in Ecuador. Her internship as a Programme Officer at the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS) equipped her with expertise and skills in research on the climate change-conflict nexus, project management, fundraising, and digital outreach for a global platform of civil society organizations focused on peacebuilding and conflict prevention. As a programme officer at AMA, Vera supports documentation, research, and communication.

Ifeoma Konwea serves as a Program Officer with AMA. She is a Nigerian national, a lawyer, a certified mediator and ADR practitioner. Ifeoma holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the Benson Idahosa University; Barrister at Law from the Nigerian Law School; a Masters in International Commercial and Maritime Law from the Swansea University - UK; and presently a Doctoral candidate at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. She has over 12 years work and academic experience in law practice, mediation/ADR, and the private sector in both the United Kingdom and Nigeria.

Karen Miricho is a Kenyan national and a practicing Advocate. She holds a postgraduate diploma from the Kenya School of Law and a bachelor's degree in law from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. Additionally, she is a certified professional mediator accredited by the Mediation Institute of Eastern Africa and sits as a panelist at court annex mediations. Prior to her role as a Program Assistant, Karen served as a project coordinator with Paraclete Consultancy, where she honed her organizational and communication skills.
With her diverse background and expertise, Karen has a deep understanding of legal principles and mediation techniques. She has a proven track record of effectively facilitating dialogue and resolving disputes in various contexts. Karen's fluency in English enables her to communicate effectively with stakeholders from different backgrounds, ensuring successful outcomes in her role as a Program Assistant. Karen is passionate about promoting access to justice and fostering collaboration within the legal community. Her experience and dedication make her a valuable asset to the team.