Her work focuses on the long-term reintegration of female and child ex-combatants, including gendered barriers to recognition, eligibility, social acceptance, political participation and post-war livelihoods. She has led participatory research and filmmaking processes with women ex-combatants in Aceh/Indonesia, Burundi, Colombia, Mindanao/Philippines, Nepal and Uganda, producing policy-facing analysis, public engagement and two participatory documentaries on women’s post-conflict experiences. Her PhD at the London School of Economics examined international actors’ engagement with child soldiering in Sierra Leone and Myanmar. She has designed and delivered trainings, university teaching and participatory learning processes on gender, peacebuilding, DDR/reintegration and participatory methods.

Evelyn combines academic research with training, facilitation, feminist MEL and policy-oriented learning. She has worked with organisations including the Berghof Foundation, LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, Agency for Peacebuilding, Justice Rapid Response, Impunity Watch, GCERF and Women Mediators across the Commonwealth.

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Her professional work experiences include four years of managing army demobilization and reintegration programs in Ethiopia, four years of managing regional development programs in Ethiopia with Action Aid International, and more than 15 years of coordinating the implementation of the Africa Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) in the Horn of Africa with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).

Notable professional achievements include successful implementation of the demobilization and reintegration of ex-soldier’s funded by the World Bank, and managing the establishment of the Regional Mediation Support Unit, and the Regional Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development program within IGAD.

She holds two Masters Degrees, including an MA in International Relations, and an MA in “Managing Peace and Security in Africa”, both from Addis Ababa University. Legawork additionally has several international diplomas including in “leadership and development studies” from Indian Institute of Development Studies, India, and “Peace and security studies in Africa” from Uppsala University, Sweden.

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She is also a Research Fellow at the Research on International Policy Implementation Lab, a Senior Associate (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Africa Program, and a Fellow with the George Washington University Program on Extremism.

In 2021, Hilary graduated from Yale University with a PhD in Political Science. In 2015, Hilary graduated with an MA in International Relations, with a focus on African Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS. Her research is at the intersection of security, gender, and governance, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

Her work has been published in International Security, Security Studies, Stability, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and African Studies Review.

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Nadine’s research focuses in institutional reform in post-conflict societies, in particular security sector reform, the role of international state and non-state actors in these reform processes, and the conditions for establishing peace in divided and post-conflict societies. She is particularly interested in alternative modes of political order beyond the European nation-state.

In her research, Nadine uses a mixed-methods approach to explore dynamics and conditions of peacebuilding in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. In her work, she cooperates with civil society organisations in post-conflict countries as well as international donor agencies.

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Her primary research interest is to understand the protective processes that contribute to risk and resilience in the mental health and development of children and adolescents facing adversity in a variety of cultures and settings. Dr. Betancourt has led initiatives to adapt and test evidence-based behavioral and parenting interventions for children and families facing adversity; she additionally focuses on strategies for scaling out these interventions using implementation science approaches.

She is Principal Investigator of an intergenerational study of war/prospective longitudinal study of war-affected youth in Sierra Leone, a scale-up Family Strengthening Intervention for children and families in Rwanda, and community-based participatory research on prevention of emotional and behavioral problems in refugee children and adolescents resettled in the U.S.

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Since 2010 he is a consultant providing analysis, management and advisory services to international organizations, governments and non-governmental organizations. From 2003 to 2010 he was Senior Social Development Specialist with the World Bank; from 2005 based in Kampala, Uganda. Before joining the World Bank, he worked among others as Project Leader for Demobilization and Peace-building at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) (1994-2003) and in various positions with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (1987-93).

Kees has published and lectured widely on various aspects of post-war recovery, particularly the demobilization and reintegration of former combatants. Over the years Kees has worked in many African countries, such as Burundi, Eritrea, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda, and also in Asian countries, such as Afghanistan, Nepal and Solomon Islands.

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She has more than 30 years of experience in the field of child protection in emergencies mainly in Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. She  has worked with UNICEF and Save the Children for many years.  Fatuma has led the development and implementation of the programmes the release and reintegration of children associated with armed forces and armed groups in Liberia, South Sudan, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Philippines, Iraq, Syria and Nigeria. 

Fatuma leads/facilitates child protection courses at the International Peace Support Training Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. She is associated with Transition International (TI), a Netherlands based consulting agency and often facilitates reintegration courses that TI organizes jointly with the Barcelona International Peace Centre in Barcelona. She has also facilitated sessions on child reintegration during courses organized by the Folke Bernadotte Academy.  

Fatuma has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, a bachelor’s degree in Arts and Diplomas in Education and Social Work. She is a member of the  International Association of Facilitators.

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He joined the United Nations (UN) system in May 2000, and have since worked in fragile post conflict and politically sensitive settings with UNDPKO (UNOCI, MUNSCO and MINUSCA), UNDP and UN ILO in Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), Child protection, Human Rights, Community Violence Reduction and Security Sector Reform (SSR) in DRC, Côte d’Ivoire and CAR, including cross-border issues in Chad, Sudan, Mali and Liberia in addition to field complex surveys (UNICEF) and humanitarian work (WVI).

Dr. Ntanga holds master’s Degrees in Rural Development, in Labour Economy and a PhD in Development Economics respectively from Institut Supérieur de Déveleppement Rural (ISDR) Tshibashi, (DRC), Université Toulouse (France) and Université Alassane Ouattara (Ivory Coast). In addition, he is a passionate University Associate Professor, teaching various courses including Community and Rural development and related subjects.

He has (co) authored several books and articles available online, including the Reducing Community Violence in the Central African Republic – The Case of Bria | Small Wars Journal with Dr. Robert MUGGAH.

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She brings a development perspective to the often-securitized DDR and PRR approaches and guides UNDP to provide sustainable reintegration solutions for former members of armed forces and groups, their families and communities.

Glaucia brings over 20 years of experience in the UN system, of which 15 years with UNDP as a peacebuilding and development practitioner. She was part of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery from 2006 to 2014 and the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support from 2014 to 2018 and has since then been with the Crisis Bureau. Her one-the-ground technical advice and support has spanned across several countries and regions over these years – Burundi, Central African Republic, Colombia, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia/Aceh, Iraq, Niger, Nigeria, The Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda, Ukraine – and the Great Lakes and Lake Chad Basin regions and institutions.

Since 2018, Glaucia has provided dedicated technical assistance to the formulation of Prosecution, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (PRR) strategies within the framework of counterterrorism, with focus on community-based reintegration (in Iraq for families with perceived association with ISIL) and through regional approaches in the Lake Chad Basin countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria in response to the Boko Haram Crisis).

Glaucia has a Law Degree (1990) from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a PhD in International Relations with focus on Statebuilding/Peacebuilding (2005) from The Graduate Institute of International Studies, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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He is currently an independent consultant providing technical analysis, capacity enhancement and advisory services to UNDP-Nigeria and other international organizations in DDR, counter-terrorism and reintegration of formerly associated insurgents in the Lake Chad Basin Region.

Peter is an economist by training with a legal background and experienced management consultant in complex and dynamic political, conflict-affected and post-war environments. Most of this experience is in Horn of Africa, Great-Lakes Region and Lake Chad Basin in Africa, particularly in Uganda, Somalia, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Nigeria. He also worked in countries such as Gambia and France in global policy formulation for human rights and gender mainstreaming. He has conducted reviews for publications on reintegration of formerly associated insurgents and conflict-affected persons and also co-authored “Deradicalisation and Disengagement in Somalia: Evidence from a Rehabilitation Programme for Former Members of Al-Shabaab.”

From 2007 to 2015, he was a Programme Officer with UNESCO in Uganda providing technical stewardship on programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in the UNESCO’s areas competence. He also worked with Adam Smith International as Deputy Team Leader in Somalia (2015-2021) in the FCDO-funded Counter Extremism Programme. He has also conducted consultancies on monitoring and evaluation, conflict and risk analyses (IOM-Ethiopia) and developing PVE policies and programmes (EIP-Iraq).

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