Bijan Frederic Farnoudi

Bijan Frederic Farnoudi

Bijan Farnoudi is head of communications at the Kofi Annan Foundation. Before taking on his current role at the Foundation in 2013, Bijan spent several years in conflict zones, heading communications department for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Sudan, Nepal, Afghanistan and at its Geneva headquarters. 

How Kofi Annan and 10 young activists took on violent extremism.

Bjorn Ihler was a teenager enjoying a few days away at a Norwegian youth camp when he found himself starring into the barrel of a loaded gun held by right wing extremist Anders Breivik.

Breivik, then 32, killed 77 people that day, most of...