User:AKO Essan Emile

Over the past 10 years, AKO has worked in the fields of community development, conflict management, social cohesion, peace and security with prominent organizations such as the USAID, Search For Common Ground (SFCG), the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and Interpeace.

Currently, AKO works as the West Africa SCORE Specialist with the Center for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development (SeeD) in collaboration with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and the UNDP. The Social Cohesion and Reconciliation Index (or SCORE Index) aims to address the deficits in designing evidenced-based policy and programmes for sustainable processes of conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

The SCORE index as a tool was developed by the UNDP and SeeD and has been implemented in various conflict-affected countries including Iraq, Ukraine, Moldavia, Nepal, Cyprus and Liberia as the first African country. AKO and his organization are working toward implementing the SCORE process in various other African countries, notably Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and the Gambia.

AKO holds a Master of Art in Linguistics and is completing a Master in Peace Culture and Conflict Management.”

As a Youth Leader, a blogger and writer, AKO wants to contribute to safe keep the knowledge base of the African traditions starting from his home region in Eastern Côte d’Ivoire. He has contributed to editing several pages relating to regions, cities and villages of the Agni-Akan people. Moreover, AKO is interested in providing professional knowledge on peace, development, international cooperation and data use in peace research.