Her most recent work is on comparative policing. She has conducted fieldwork in Colombia, Central America, Melanesia, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. Her 2017 book, Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation, was published by Cambridge University Press and won the 2018 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize. Her work has also been published by Foreign Affairs, Governance, International Security, Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and elsewhere.

She previously worked at the RAND Corporation and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She has held fellowships at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and UCSD’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

She received her Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and her A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University.

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Her first book, Rape During Civil War (Cornell University Press, 2016), examines the variation in the use of rape during recent civil conflicts; the research for the book draws on extensive fieldwork in Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste and El Salvador. Cohen’s second book, Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States, was published in 2020 with Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Elements: Political Economy series.) The book, coauthored with Danielle F. Jung, draws on original survey and focus group data collected during fieldwork in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Cohen was the recipient of the 2019 Emerging Scholar Award from the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association, the Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award from the American Political Science Association, the Best Book Awards from the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) and the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (FTGS) Section of the International Studies Association, and the Heinz I. Eulau Award for the best article published in the American Political Science Review in the previous year.

Cohen received her Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and an A.B. in political science and philosophy from Brown University.

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An Eisenhower Global Fellow and a TED Senior Fellow, in the past decade Benedetta has held research and teaching positions at West Point, The Institute for National Security Studies and Tel Aviv University, among others. Her research focuses on armed groups, internal wars, and protection of civilians.

Dr. Berti is the author of four books, including “Armed Political Organizations. From Conflict to Integration” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). Her work and research have appeared, among others, in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, the National Interest, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times; as well as in Civil Wars, Democratization, Government & Opposition, Mediterranean Politics, the Middle East Journal, Parameters, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Politica Violence.

She holds a BA in Oriental Studies from the University of Bologna, an MA and PhD in International Relations from The Fletcher School (Tufts University), and two post-doctorates in International Relations and Political Science, from Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University.

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Her research expertise spans the fields of international relations, comparative politics and peace and conflict studies with specific focus on the political transformation of armed groups into political parties, DDR, political party development and democratization after civil wars.

Alongside several journal articles on post-rebel parties, Dr Sindre is the co-editor of the research brief series The Political Dynamics of DDR and the book The Effects of Rebel Parties on Governance, Democracy and Stability After Civil Wars: From Guns to Governing (Routledge 2023).

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This has covered a range of thematic areas including: conflict transformation and peacebuilding; conflict sensitivity and Do No Harm (DNH) approaches; refugee, IDP and former combatant return and reintegration; gender, peace and security; civil society strengthening; peace education; armed gang mediation; community security, armed violence reduction, and reconciliation in fragile states.

Dr Bowd has advised governments, UN agencies, ADB, INGO’s and NGO’s, and retains a number of advisory and academic positions. In addition, he has published numerous articles, policy briefs and books across these thematic areas and has presented at international conferences.

He is currently a founding director with Betula Innovations, a consultancy company specialising in the provision of bespoke, agile solutions to complex problems grounded in a robust evidence base.

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