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2020
22 October, 2020
PAnel discussion:
The World on the Streets: Global Gangster Imaginaries and Marginal African Youth
Africa Research Group, King’s Africa Week.
King’s College London.
7 October, 2020
Research Seminar:
Discussion of new paper “‘A Game of Pain’: Youth Marginalisation and the Gangs of Freetown.”
UCL Political Science Departmental Research Seminar.
University College London.
5 June, 2020
Talk:
Why Young Men Rebel: A Global Study of Street-Gangs and Urban Violence
Gender and Security Seminar Series
Harvard Kennedy School
Co-sponsors:
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Carr Center for Human Rights
Women and Public Policy Program
19 March, 2020
Panel Discussion:
Africa In The 21st Century: Change, Challenges and Hopes
London
11 February, 2020
High-Level Panel – World Urban Forum 2020
Access to services and infrastructures in the context of urban violence
World Urban Forum 10 – UN HABITAT
Image credit: Maciej Polkowski
2019
5 December, 2019
Talk:
Rebel Orders: Urban Violence and the (Never) Coming Anarchy
6 November, 2019
Talk:
A Game of Pain: Youth Marginalisation and the Gangs of Freetown
Centre of African Studies Seminar Series
University of Edinburgh
More details here
20 September, 2019
Conference Presentation:
Urban Violence and Selective Policing in Complexo da Mare, Rio de Janeiro
Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa (ABRE)
Paris Conference 2019
8-9 July, 2019
Talk:
Violence and the Crime-Conflict Nexus
Day 1: The political economy of armed conflict
Day 2: Urbanisation and violence: a 21st century challenge
Engaging Conflict Summer School
Torino World Affairs Institute, Italy.
6 March, 2019
Talk:
Rebel Orders: Violence and the (never) Coming Anarchy
Africa Talks
Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham.
4 March, 2019
Panel:
International Symposium: The Experience of Violence
The British Academy
London
26 February, 2019
Talk:
States of Rebellion: Why Young People Join Gangs
Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
Germany
2018
20 November, 2018
Conference Presentation:
Intervenciones y pacificación en contextos de violencia criminal
Conference: Verdad, Memoria y Justicia en contextos de violencia criminal
Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos – México (National Human Rights Commission) – El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Internacionales
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17 October, 2018
Conference Presentation:
Life Between the Lines: Comparative Experiences of Perpetrators of Urban Violence.
Conference: The Micro-dynamics of Violence
Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
2 October, 2018
Panel Discussion:
The Changing Face of Conflict
The Project for the Study of the 21st Century (PS21)
Whitehall, London.
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25 September, 2018
Lecture:
Urbanisation and New Security Challenges
Roads Scholar
St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford.
6 September, 2018
Conference Presentation:
Addressing Non-State Armed Groups and the Strategic Logic of Mass Atrocities: Examples from Sierra Leone.
Conference: The UN Genocide Convention at Seventy: The Politics of Mass Atrocity Prevention.
The Norwegian Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo.
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4 September, 2018
Conference Presentation
Conference: Crisis: Contested Narratives, Interventions and Resistance
University of Bath, Department of Social and Policy Sciences.
5 June, 2018
Conference Presentation:
Building Bridges: Bangladesh’s Peacekeepers in Sierra Leone
Conference: LSE Bangladesh Summit 2018
London School of Economics
Hosted by The South Asia Centre (LSE) and The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies (UC Berkeley)
More details and registration here
12 April, 2018
Conference Presentation:
Sierra Leone and the Next Generation
Conference: After The War: Diplomatic Strategies For Post-Conflict Environments
King’s College London, Strand Campus
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25 January, 2018
Conference Presentation:
Youth, Violence and Urban Security in 21st Century Africa
Conference: Kings Engaged in Africa 2018: Security & Development
King’s College London, Strand Campus
(My presentation from 08:08).
2017
22 March, 2017
Conference presentation:
‘We Forgive But We Don’t Forget’: Trauma and Recovery in Sierra Leone
ISA Annual Conference
Baltimore, USA.
1 March, 2017
Lecture/Book Launch:
Reflections from the Field: Understanding Violence, Just and Conflict Transformation in Sierra Leone
Colombia University Seminar/Book Launch
Organised by:
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
The Institute of African Studies
The School of International and Public Affairs
Moderated by Professor Séverine Autesserre.
Colombia University, New York
23 February, 2017
Lecture/Book Launch:
Evaluating Transitional Justice: Accountability and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
George Washington University, Seminar/Book Launch
Organised by:
Institute for African Studies
Elliott School of International Affairs
George Washington University, Washington DC
2016
17 November, 2016
Talk:
Reintegración, Reconciliación y la Huella Internacional
Conference: Pasos hacia el posconflicto: un análisis desde miradas comparadas
Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
31 October, 2016
Lecture/Book Launch: Rebels in a Rotten State: Understanding Atrocity in the Sierra Leonean Civil War
The University of Oxford, African History & Politics Seminar
Organised by:
Department of Politics & International Relations
Department of International Development
History Faculty
African Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford
16 March, 2016
Conference presentation:
Reconciliation and Reintegration in the Depths of Peace
ISA Annual Conference
Atlanta, USA.
2015
11 June, 2015
Lecture:
Trafficking & Terrorism in the Sahel
ASIS International – UK Chapter Summer Seminar
London
17 April, 2015
Conference Presentation: What Use is Justice? Reconciliation and Reintegration in Sierra Leone
Conference: 2015 LSE Africa Summit – Research Conference
LSE, London
2014
31 October, 2014
War Studies Insight: The Ebola Crisis
2013
2012
19 October, 2012
Conference Presentation:
Return of the Rebels? The Revolutionary United Front Party of Sierra Leone
Nordic Africa Days
Reykjavík, Iceland.
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