Mr Gustavo de Carvalho joined the Conflict Management and Peacebuilding division in April 2014 as a Senior Research on Peacebuilding. Gustavo has extensive experience in capacity development, policy support and research initiatives in the peacebuilding field in Africa. From 2009 – 2014 he worked at the African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) as an Analyst at ACCORD’s arm of the Training for Peace (TfP) Programme, and later as Coordinator of its Peacebuilding Unit. Previously, Gustavo worked as a Researcher at Global Witness, a London-based organisation, in campaigns that related to the link between natural resources and conflict in both the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Somalia. Gustavo holds a bachelor degree in international relations from the University of Brasilia, and a MSc in African studies from the University of Oxford.