Achaleke Christian Leke serves as the African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace representing the Central African Region. He is a Multi-award-winning peace builder and violent extremism expert with 16 years of experience working as a practitioner, researcher and academic from Cameroon.
He is also the Executive Director of a leading youth-led peace-building organization in Cameroon; Local Youth Corner Cameroon (LOYOC). He has implemented over 600 peace-building and related initiatives in Cameroon and across the world and co-authored several publications and policies.
Among his many strides, his leadership in facilitating the rehabilitation, reintegration and improvement of the livelihood to violent and violent extremist and vulnerable communities is shaping the DDR and SPRR processes in Cameroon and the Lake Chad basin Region. His work in facilitating youth-led community dialogues in the conflict-hit Anglophone regions is shaping youth participation in the peace process in Cameroon.
In 2018 Achaleke was admitted into the Advisory Board of the International Institute of Justice and the Rule of Law. Achaleke is also serving as an Independent Review Panel member of GCERF and also serving as a Youth Advisory member of the Dallaire Institute for Children Peace and Security. From 2016 to 2020, Achaleke served as the Global Chair of the Commonwealth Youth Peace Ambassadors Network.
Achaleke’s work has earned him several national and international recognitions including. In 2021 he was recognized by the Project Management Institute as “Future 50 Project Leaders” in the world.
He was also featured in 2021 as a UNESCO Real Life Hero. In 2021 he was featured as a CNN African Voices Changemaker. He has been featured 5 times in the list of 100 Most Influential Young Africans.
In 2019 Christian was recognized by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office among the 35 Chevening Changemakers in the World. In 2018 he was awarded the Luxembourg Peace Prize. Similarly, in 2016 he was named the Commonwealth Young Person of the Year and recognised by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He was named the Most Influential Young Cameroon in 2016.
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