Board of Directors

Janine Edge is an Edmund Hillary Fellow with a focus on enhancing education in New Zealand schools for mental well-being. She is Chairman of the Scientific and Medical Network Charitable Trust in the UK, which has as its aim transformative learning and change.

Until 2020 Janine lived in the UK where she was formerly a partner of a London law firm, an accredited practicing mediator and a university Fellow in Organisational Psychology on an MBA programme. She has an MSc in Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology from Liverpool John Moores University, and an MA in Philosophy and Law from Cambridge University.

Janine has worked as a volunteer for the Peace Foundation for over a decade. She facilitated the connection with the Resolution Institute which enabled professional mediators to coach students through mediation role plays as part of the secondary school training. She also has a keen interest in play-writing, improvisation and performance as a way to accelerate learning.

Alyn Ware is the International Representative of the Peace Foundation. He also serves as the Global Co-ordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, and the International Representative for Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace. Alyn, a former kindergarten teacher, is a pioneer of peace education. As founder of the Mobile Peace Van and the UN Decade for a Culture of Peace Schools Outreach program, he toured New Zealand schools in the 1980s and early 2000s leading classes and advising teachers on peace education. He is also co-founder of Our Planet in Every Classroom and the Cool Schools Peer Mediation Programme. He has served on a number of government advisory bodies including the NZ Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control, and the Ministry of Education advisory group that developed the peace studies guidelines for the New Zealand school curriculum.

Alyn is co-founder of a number of international initiatives including the Global Campaign for Peace Education, Basel Peace Office, Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign, NoFirstUse Global, UNFOLD ZERO and Abolition 2000, the global civil society network to eliminate nuclear weapons. He has served as the Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy (USA) and was the UN Co-ordinator for the World Court Project, which led the successful effort to achieve a ruling from the International Court of Justice on the illegality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. Alyn, who currently lives in Prague, has won a number of awards for peace education and disarmament work, including the UN International Year of Peace (Aotearoa) prize in 1986 and the Right Livelihood Award (‘Alternative Nobel Peace Prize’) in 2009.

Tamkeen Saeid is a lawyer and former Peace Foundation employee. Having spent three years as the Youth Programmes Ambassador, she has grown a passion and love for the work our team does. She has grown up in West Auckland as a refugee from Afghanistan and has been involved in refugee and social justice advocacy her whole life. She cares deeply for our rangatahi and is invested in making sure our future generations have the skills and resources to become true peace ambassadors in their communities.

Tena koutou katoa, my name is Pierre Lyndon. I am a teacher of English at a Te Reo Maori immersion school. I am also a proud father of some wonderful tamariki. I am from the Ngati Whatua branch of Ngati Hine. I have had experience in media, the public service, engineering and education. I had a rural upbringing in Te Reo and Tikanga Maori.