Florence Foster led the Quaker UN Office’s Peace & Disarmament work in Geneva until recently. She specializes in conflict transformation, networked policy development and facilitating policy conversations, with a thematic focus on arms control, corporate responsibility, social justice and human rights. She began her career at the Global Protection Cluster and the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva, before moving on to focus on West African conflict dynamics at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Through her later roles at the Fondation Suisse de Déminage and Finn Church Aid, Florence led mediation and armed violence reduction initiatives in the Central African Republic.