Dr Evelyn Pauls is a feminist researcher, peacebuilding practitioner and consultant specialising in gender, DDR/reintegration, WPS, participatory methods and monitoring, evaluation and learning. She is a Senior Researcher for Inclusive Peace and Security at the Agency for Peacebuilding and an Associate Researcher with the Conflict Transformation Research Programme at the Berghof Foundation.
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.
To read more about Evelyn Pauls, kindly visit: https://berghof-foundation.org/about/people/evelyn-pauls
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Geographic focus:
- Africa
- Burundi
- Colombia
- Ethiopia
- Global
- Iraq
- Lebanon
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Yemen
Subject expertise:
- Armed conflict (causes, dynamics, prevention)
- Armed groups
- Armed groups and armed conflict
- Climate security, natural resources and DDR
- DDR processes, programming and support
- Legal and normative frameworks for DDR
- Political context of DDR
- Prevention of (re-)recruitment/recidivism
- Reintegration
- Rule of law, transitional justice and DDR
- Women, gender and DDR
- Youth and DDR
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