Dr. Andrea Bartoli is the President of the Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue. He works primarily on peacemaking and genocide prevention.
Andrea is a member of the Steering Group of the Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes (GAAMAC), a fellow at the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity AC4 at Columbia University, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Peacemaking Practice (CPP) at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and an active member of the Insights Conflict resolution community (ICI).
Andrea has been a member of the Community of Sant’Egidio since 1970. He was its Representative to the UN and the USG (1992-2018). He was the Convener of the Genocide Prevention Advisory Network (GPANet); the Dean of the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and of the School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University. He was also the Founding Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University.
Andrea is also a premier teacher who has taught courses on conflict prevention, genocide prevention, peacemaking, Christianity and peace, United Nations, and Insight approach to conflict resolution.
He has been involved in many successful diplomatic activities and peacemaking processes including in Mozambique (1990–1992), Guatemala (1995), Algeria (1995), Kosovo (1998), Burundi (1999-2000), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1996-current) Casamance (1994- current), Central African Republic (2015 – current), South Sudan (2017 – current) .
He oversaw the development and implementation of CICR, S-CAR and School of Diplomacy's interventions in Burma/Myanmar, East Timor, Colombia, Iraq and the African Great Lakes Region, Basque Country and with the Global Actin Against Mass Atrocity Crimes. Andrea has worked for and collaborated with both public- and private-sector partners such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the Global Coalition to Prevent Armed Conflicts, the Ford Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the European Union, Parliamentarians for Global Action as well as for the governments of Norway, East Timor, Portugal, Sweden, Poland and Switzerland.
I have been inspired by St. Egidio's work, whether in confronting global conflict, aiding abandoned migrants, people suffering from AIDS , refugees seeking asylum, the often-marginalized impoverished, shunned, powerless. Their ecumenicism, unique healing spirit, and their capacity to bridge divides in a highly eclectic and innovative manner is impressive. Andrea's passion for humanity dignifies the world we occupy. I had the privilege of Andrea's engagement with my Institute's colloquium students' efforts to understand religion's role in society and politics, and had the honor of presenting him with my Institute's Dr. Jean Mayer Award for Global Citizenship.