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 the U.S. Government, the United Nations, and NGOs. She has extensive experience in policy and advocacy and overseeing sizeable and complex prevention and peacebuilding programs in conflict-affected and fragile states in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. 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. Liz is an adjunct professor at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, and a frequent guest lecturer and author on conflict analysis and peacebuilding in conflict-affected and fragile states.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
