Manal Hamdoun Ghandour, Lebanon

Manal Hamdoun Ghandour holds a Political Science degree and an MA in Education and Curriculum Design. She has been working on human rights and education for over 25 years in Lebanon and Nigeria. She currently serves as the Project Coordinator of an NGO called Act for the Disappeared, a Lebanese human rights organization working on dealing with the past, peace building and human rights through the issue of the missing and disappeared in the Lebanese War. Manal has extensive experience in designing courses for training teachers and for cultivating compassion and empathy in different environments. She actively leads discussions and activities related to transgenerational trauma, dealing with the past and trauma sensitive peace building.