Achim Wennmann is a senior researcher at the Graduate Institute’s Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding in Geneva and executive coordinator of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. He co-founded Geneva Peace Week and the Peace Talks Initiative and was a co-chair of the Technical Working Group on the Confluence of Urban Safety and Peacebuilding Practice from 2015 to 2017. He is the author of Business and Conflict in Fragile States: The Case for Pragmatic Solutions and Urban Safety and Peacebuilding: New Perspectives on Sustaining Peace in the City.