Baiye Frida Ebai is a Cameroonian peacebuilding researcher, practitioner, and trainer with over 10 years of experience working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. She specializes in gender, conflict, and Artificial Intelligence in peacebuilding, exploring how tools such as AI-assisted early warning, risk forecasting, counter-disinformation, and digital civic governance can strengthen conflict prevention, civil security, and inclusive peace processes.

Frida holds an M.Sc. in Corporate Communication and is a PhD Fellow in Sociology at the University of Buea, Cameroon. She has completed professional certifications in Migration Management, AI in Peacebuilding, Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict Analysis and Mediation, Responsibility to Protect (R2P), DDR, and Gender, Conflict & Peacebuilding, among others.

As a trainer and facilitator in Digital Security and Safety, she equips peacebuilders and communities with practical tools to navigate digital and physical environments safely. Frida has served as a Women, Peace & Security Consultant for the International Crisis Group in Cameroon, contributing to research, stakeholder engagement, and policy recommendations, including co-authoring reports such as “Rebels, Victims, Peacebuilders: Women in the Anglophone Conflict”, and facilitating workshops to strengthen women’s participation in peace processes.

Her work centres on amplifying marginalized voices, promoting inclusive dialogue, and advancing responsible AI governance in peacebuilding and civic protection.

Participant in: January/February 2022 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes