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Peter Gaduel

Academic background: Bachelor of Arts (Second Class Honors) Upper Division with a major in Political science -University of Nairobi (Kenya).

Areas of interest:

  • Conflict mitigation, analysis and resolution
  • Responsibility to protect, and atrocities prevention
  • Youth, women peace, and security
  • Arms control, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR)
  • Early recovery strategies and durable solutions to communities displaced in armed conflict
  • Multi-lateral aid and diplomacy

Work Experience: Peter Gaduel has eight years of experience in governance, peacebuilding and emergency practice in South Sudan. Between 2010 - to date, Peter served with reputable multi-lateral agencies in his country supporting the transition to peace and stability.

Before the independence of South Sudan in 2011, Peter was part of the Sudan BRIDGE (Building Responsibility of  Delivering Government Social Services) project funded by USAID, focusing on democracy, and good governance and had mentored the community leaders and local government administrative officers who were formerly rebel fighters of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) by disseminating technical guidelines on local governance, public service reforms, planning and budgeting in his home town in Bentiu (Unity State). He was incredibly influential in establishing networks of Community Action Groups (CAGs) as active voices during the grassroots consultations and need identification process at the local (Boma, Payam, County) levels.

In 2015, Peter joined the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) where he based at the national capital Juba to oversee the implementation of Japan knowledge Co-creation programs and monitoring the implementation of South Sudan media, and custom administration projects. He also helped manage the training programs for South Sudan civil servants and guided the establishment of JICA Alumina Association for South Sudan.

For the last five years, Peter has been working as a programme assistant at the United Nation Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) where he offered his expertise in the protection of civilians (PoC) under threat of physical and conflict-related sexual violence. He has been organising consultations with the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) through town hall meetings to help generate perceptions on much-needed peace implementation and related conditions for a durable return, as well as redesigning the PoC site into IDP camp. Peter has helped build the capacities of local authorities in the home region (Unity State) on their constitutional mandate to protect civilians. Peter also represents the UN Mission in multi-stakeholders solution working groups (SLWGs) at the state level - involving other protection actors and local authorities to formulate solutions for durable return of IDPs, refugees and the delivery of humanitarian services.

Peter has conducted many preliminary need assessments, human rights monitoring and reporting during the period of political turmoil and armed conflict in South Sudan. His research interest has been the responsibility to protect, resource-based inter-communal conflicts and local level solutions to traditional revenge killings among the pastoral communities in South Sudan. 

Peter Gaduel