Solomon Ateh is a Cameroonian Youth Envoy for Peace and Democracy and a distinguished alumnus of Global Peace. In 2018, he founded Bantu Voices, a digital media organisation to support the efforts of civil society organisations working on conflict transformation in Cameroon. With extensive experience working at the intersection of peace and security, human rights and development communication at local and international levels, he has served as communication officer for several NGOs across Cameroon, notably the Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa and LUKMEF Cameroon, and has also served with the International Youth Parliament as the Director for media and communication.
He is an alumnus of the Mandela Washington Fellowship at Indiana University, USA, a flagship programme of the US Department of State’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). He was the only Cameroonian selected for the prestigious fellowship while still an undergraduate. He is also a Fellow of the Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Enrichment Institute at Dartmouth College USA, a Fellow of the Mandela Washington Fellowship Professional Development Experience (PDE) at the Council on American Islamic Relations in Chicago, and a fellow of the Cameroon Leadership Academy. He has served the Mandela Washington Fellows’ Association of Cameroon as the Peace Project Lead for the South West of the country, and briefly as Public Relations Officer. He was the Convener and Moderator of the Global Peace UN75 Intergenerational Dialogue for Cameroon. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Conflict Resolution with a minor in International Relations from the University of Buea, Cameroon.
Global Peace welcomes Solomon Ateh to the Global Peace Team and wishes him well in his new appointment.
Congratulations! From the Office of the Global Coordinator General, Global Peace, ACCORD, Durban, South Africa
