Dr. Véronique Dudouet
Dr. Véronique Dudouet is a Senior Advisor at the Berghof Foundation in Berlin, Germany, where she serves as focal point for inclusive peace processes. Since 2005, she has led numerous research projects and conducted trainings and policy advice on conflict transformation, with a specific focus on non-state armed groups and social movements.
In 2019, she was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at USIP, Washington DC. She holds an MA and a PhD in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford, UK.
She is the (co-)author of four books, including Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transitions from Armed to Nonviolent Struggle (Routledge 2014), and Nonviolent Resistance and Democratisation (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).
Col. Andrii H. Ordynovych
Col. Andrii H. Ordynovych (retired Nov. 2023) is Director of Strategic Partnerships with the Ukrainian Freedom Fund. He serves as co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Organization for Nonviolent Movements.
He has held several key positions in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including Deputy Director of Military Cooperation and Military Attache in the USA. Colonel Ordynovych also served as the Deputy Military Representative of Ukraine to NATO (Mission of Ukraine to NATO).
He received multiple awards, including the USA Legion of Merit and the Defense Medal of France.
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Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Oleksandra Keudel
Dr. Oleksandra Keudel is an Associate Professor, Vice-Chair for Research, and the Founding Director of the Center for Democratic Resilience at the Social Sciences Department of the Kyiv School of Economics. Her research focuses on democratic transformation and societal resilience, with a specialization in Ukraine’s sub-national politics.
She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin. She has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, George Washington University, New York University, and Södertörn University. She is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh.
Oleksandra is a member of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society and a co-editor of the Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Series at Nomos Publishing House (Germany). She combines academic research with policy consulting on open government and public integrity for international organizations, including the European Union, the Council of Europe, and IIEP-UNESCO.
Dr. Felip Daza
Felip Daza is a professor at Sciences Po Paris and practitioner in the field of civil resistance, human security, and conflict transformation. He brings over two decades of experience working with UN Agencies, governments, and civil society in Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the South Caucasus.
Since 2022, his work has focused on civil resistance in Ukraine, where he has published several studies on community resilience, crisis management, and hybrid warfare.
Felip is also the co-founder of the International Institute for Nonviolent Action.
Mr. Bienvenu Matumo
Bienvenu Matumo is a PhD candidate in social and political geography. He is affiliated with LADYSS and the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at Paris 8 University of Creation. His research focuses on urban transformation through the lens of socio-spatial inequalities in Goma, North Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
He holds a degree in African and Mediterranean Studies from the Department of Political Science at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. In 2014–2015, he attended the National School of Administration (ENA) in Kinshasa, where he was part of the Patrice Emery Lumumba class.
For a decade, he has been one of the figures of the citizen movement “Lutte pour le Changement” (LUCHA-RDC). Matumo is highly present and active in public debate, adopting an approach of political and activist radicalism that enables him to demand accountability from leaders. Furthermore, he contributes to raising awareness among Congolese citizens so that they participate in territorial governance.
Hortense Blazsin
Hortense Blazsin is a senior sustainability and risk management leader working at the intersection of science, strategy, and change. With over 15 years of international experience across industry, research, and advisory environments, Hortense’s work focuses on high-stakes transformations shaped by climate, environment, social and governance (ESG), risk, innovation, and cultural change in environments marked by uncertainty.
Trained as a scientist in political science, risk and decision-making – she completed her PhD in Safety Science at Ecole des Mines de Paris and worked as a researcher at King’s College London – Hortense has held global leadership roles in various complex international environments (energy, specialty materials, tech) where she structured ESG and impact strategies and led large, multi-country grassroots initiatives around sustainability and change.
A strong believer in individual autonomy, empowerment and collective action, Hortense is convinced that in the face of unprecedented pressures due to the breakdown of Earth systems and the post-WWII liberal order, fostering strong, free and resilient civil societies is the answer – and that nonviolent movements are the best, most effective way to trigger the positive change we direly need.