Emmanuel Bombande's began his career in 1990 working with the group International Young Catholic Students (IYCS), becoming the Africa Regional Coordinator.
The organization focuses on faith-based development work globally and also have special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
The Nairobi Peace Initiative was founded in 1984 and engages in peacebuilding and conflict transformation work including mediation, dialogue facilitation, and capacity building throughout the Horn, East, Central, and West Africa.
[5][6] While at NPI he also worked with interethnic conflicts in the Rift Valley of Kenya, and facilitating dialogue in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Focusing on collaborative approaches to conflict prevention during the civil wars taking place in West Africa.
[10] From 2005-2007, Bombande was involved in resolving the Nkonya-Alavanyo Conflict in the Volta Region-Ghana as well as the helping to facilitate the national dialogue between the government and civil society organizations in Togo.
In 2006 a disagreement with future Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee over the ownership of the Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET), a program of WANEP, led her to separate from the organization and form another organization Women in Peace and Security Network with Thelma Ekiyor and Ecoma Alaga.
[15] Despite this he has frequently stated that Ghana is in a more stable and peaceful place than many of its neighbors given the tradition of strong civil society organizations.