As Director of the Policy Institute of Jammu and Kashmir, Sohini Jana seeks to contribute to the focus areas of inter-community and intra-cultural peace processes in Kashmir through education, mainstreaming of interreligious and intercultural dialogue tools. She is also the acting India Chapter President for a non-profit organization based in the United States called the Euphrates Institute, which aims to equip and connect peacebuilders worldwide. Through her work, Sohini is leading the development of a strategy to engage women in community spaces for peace processes while empowering them to achieve gender equality goals in the development narrative. She is also contributing to bringing about a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the role and scope of identity dynamics as they play out in grassroots democratic processes.

Dr. Swati Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Schoolguru Eduserve Pvt. Ltd. and Vice President, South East Asia, of the Eurasian Doctoral Summer Academy (EDSA). She has earned her PhD in human rights from the University of Calcutta and worked with the National Human Rights Commission India as a research consultant.

Dr. Swati has been associated with various NGOs and development agencies from early stages for social inclusion, community networks, human rights activism, and advocacy for the education and empowerment of women.

Dr. Swati has authored more than 20 articles and is also the editor of several books and journals including “Tribal Development”, “Gender Identity and Roles in India: Issues and Challenges”, “Multidisciplinary Handbook of Social Exclusion and Human Rights”, and “Inclusive Development and Sustainability”.

Ayya Yeshe Bodhicitta was ordained as a nun in 2001. Having discovered Buddhism during her travels through Nepal and India at the age of 17, she spent a year of study and practice in several monasteries. Afterward, Venerable Yeshe returned to Australia to run a Buddhist Centre in Sydney, continuing to train with her teacher Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe for five years. Since then, she has taught Dharma in HIV hospices, schools, drug and alcohol rehab centres and trained as a yoga teacher. Returning to India in 2004, Venerable Yeshe felt a need to put her faith into action and become more socially engaged. Working with other Indian Buddhists, she founded The Bodhicitta Foundation, an NGO which works in India and other developing countries to empower women and children of all faiths and backgrounds, with education, job skills, human rights, health and wellbeing. Venerable Yeshe has learned from Sakya Trizen (the second highest Lama in Tibetan Buddhism) and Ven Thich Nhat Hanh, the nobel peace prize poet and peace activist. She is also the author of 'Everyday Enlightenment' published by Harper Collins and is featured in the documentaries 'Life beyond the Begging Bowl' and 'Through the Eastern Gate'. 

Prof. Ursula Cristina Basset is a lawyer, with a PhD in Juridical Sciences. Prof. Basset is a Professor and Researcher at Pontificia Universidad Católica and Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. She is the Director of the Postgraduate Career in Family Law (Universidad Católica de Salta); a member of the Directive Board of the International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family; a member of the Executive Board of the International Society of Family Law; a member of the Institute of Bioethics of the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (Buenos Aires, Argentina); a member of the Subcomission of Reform of the Civil Code (Argentina); and is the author of several publications in Family Law and Bioethics.