Priscyll Anctil Avoine is a researcher in Feminist Security Studies and an Assistant Professor at the Department of War Studies, Swedish Defence University. She is also the Director of the feminist and antiracist collective, Fundación Lüvo.
Since 2013, Priscyll has worked extensively in research and the NGO sector in the field of DDR, transitional justice, gender-based violence in armed conflicts and mine action. Particularly, in Colombia and Nepal, she has engaged with different stakeholders, such as children and adolescent victims of the armed conflict, DDR practitioners, men, women and queer (ex)-combatants, military and police personnels, public officials, and women and feminist grassroots organizations.
Priscyll’s research focuses on the political agency and participation of women and queer people that have joined non-state armed groups and the difficulties of navigating the transition to “civilian society” in the aftermath of peace deals. Within this scope, she has explored understudied areas of DDR, such as family ties, parenthood, youth agency, political militancy as well as embodied and emotional aspect of transitions from war-to-peace. Priscyll has also developed alternative forms of pedagogies and methods to work in complex settings and with different actors. She has extensively published in renowned peer-review journals in the field of DDR, and she is the co-author of the graphic novel Militancia feminista post-lucha armada de las farianas (2024) with Zulay Carolina Rueda.
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- Armed conflict (causes, dynamics, prevention)
- Armed groups
- Community violence reduction
- DDR-related tools
- Demobilization and reinsertion
- Disarmament and weapons and ammunition management
- Political context of DDR
- Reintegration
- Rule of law, transitional justice and DDR
- Women, gender and DDR
- Youth and DDR
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