On 01 January 2025, Inclusive Peace enters a new stage in its organisational growth as a world-class facilitator of inclusive peacemaking and peacebuilding in some of the world’s most complex and protracted political processes.

For the past five years, Inclusive Peace has been led by Dr. Thania Paffenholz, who founded the organisation 10 years ago through its transition from the Inclusive Peace and Transitions Initiative hosted at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

At the end of December, Thania will step down from her role as Director and take on a new function as a Senior Advisor. Thania made this decision to dedicate more time to developing innovative avenues for creating broader impacts for peace and inclusive societies within and beyond the peacebuilding field to engage with global audiences, networks, and movements, including the next generation of societal and political change-makers. While exploring these new opportunities, Thania will also remain engaged in supporting peace and political change processes alongside Inclusive Peace’s partners.

The organisation will continue to benefit from Thania’s wealth of experience in this new function. To further strengthen Inclusive Peace’s position and build on the legacy of its founder, the organisation will be led by the current management team – with Zachary Taylor, Managing Director, and Alex Shoebridge, Head of Peace Process Support playing more prominent roles, complemented by a wider set of research, peace process support, and operations colleagues based across East Africa, Europe, and Asia/Pacific.

This includes a diversified portfolio of work across three continents supported by an advisory board comprised of a number of prominent figures from the world of mediation, diplomacy, security, and peacebuilding and a broadened partnership base spanning foreign ministries, development agencies, and foundations, and a renewed sense of direction.

Inclusive Peace wishes to thank Thania for the extraordinary contribution she has made towards putting inclusivity at the heart of conflict management and peacebuilding around the world, and we look forward to the next chapter Inclusive Peace continues to pursue its vision and mandate “to set change in motion” by supporting actors to engage and shape peace and political transition processes.