Jonathan Cohen was appointed Executive Director of Conciliation Resources in 2016. He joined Conciliation Resources in 1997 and developed the South Caucasus programme focusing on dialogue and confidence building initiatives to promote peacebuilding in the South Caucasus. In September 2008 he became Director of Programmes overseeing Conciliation Resources' regional programmes in the South Caucasus, Colombia, West Africa, East and Central Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and India/Pakistan in relation to Kashmir. Jonathan is Chair of the Associates of the Imperial War Museum's Institute for Public Understanding of War and Conflict and is a Board Member of the Peace Dividend Initiative. ​