Asia & Pacific
From 2006-2010, I worked in the South Asia region as Saferworld’s Team Leader for Asia, developing programmes working on peace, small arms control, community security and justice and conflict sensitivity in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. I also worked on peace, violence reduction and crisis response with the UNDP in Papua New Guinea and the Regional Centre in Suva, Fiji in 2005-2006. I have continued to develop research and provide advice covering contexts in the region, including on Bangladesh, the Philippines and Afghanistan.
Past Assignments include:
Led and co-authored two strands of research for the FCDO-funded project ‘Stabilisation and resilience strategies: what works to address threats posed by violent criminal or proscribed groups?’ (2021-22)
Report with Jordan Street: ‘No shortcuts to security: learning from responses to armed conflicts involving proscribed groups,’ (Saferworld/FCDO funded, May 2022)
Provided strategic and operational advice to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in response to requests to the Saferworld, Bradford University and Stockholm Policy Group helpdesks on peace, human rights, rule of law and conflict sensitivity, including authoring a number of written reports from 2010 onwards
Podcast series - researched, scripted, cohosted and produced: Reckoning with 9/11, 8-part special series of Saferworld’s Warpod, September-November 2021, with Pulitzer-prize winning journalists and experts from affected countries (scripted, co-hosted and edited)
Provided advice and helped develop Saferworld's regional & country peacebuilding programming in the Balkans, Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda and Yemen
Report with Jordan Street & Luca Venchiarutti: ‘UN peace operations in complex environments: charting the right course,’ (Saferworld, 2018)
Policy brief with Sunil Suri: ‘A new war on terror or a new search for peace: lessons from Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen,’ (Saferworld, 2016)
(Project managed and edited) report by Hesta Groenewald: ‘Hammering the bread and the nail: lessons from counter-terror, stabilisation and statebuilding in Afghanistan,’ (Saferworld, 2016)
Report with David Keen: ‘Dilemmas of counterterror, stabilisation and statebuilding,’ (Saferworld, 2015)
Provided evaluation of and training on conflict sensitivity at strategic and project level to aid agencies and governments (including Oxfam, EC, PACT, Netherlands & Sweden)
Report with Ivan Campbell & Hashitha Abeywardana: ‘Conflict-Sensitivity Assessment of EU programmes in Sri Lanka: Best practices and recommendations for project partners,’ (Saferworld/EU, October 2010)
Led the development of Saferworld’s South Asia regional programme focusing on Sri Lanka and Nepal projects on small arms control, rule of law, community security and conflict-sensitive approaches to relief and development from 2008-2010
Report with S Keethaponcalan, ‘“The Practice of Conflict-Sensitivity – concept to impact” Donor Policy and conflict sensitivity in Sri Lanka - A literature review,” (Saferworld/CSA Consortium)
Report with Hashitha Abeywardena, ‘Case studies of conflict sensitivity in consortium members’ projects,’ (Saferworld/CARE/PCA/CSA Consortium)
Supported country level efforts to research and consult on small arms and armed violence and develop national response strategies, and developed international small arms survey standards drawing on this
Report with Eleanor Gordon, Sudindra Sharma, Subindra Bogati & Rita Khatiwada: ‘Treading Water - Security and justice in Nepal in 2009,’ (London/Kathmandu, Saferworld, 2010)
Report with Hashitha Abeywardana & Thomas Ansorg, ‘Conflict-Sensitivity Assessment of EC programmes in Sri Lanka,’ (Saferworld, June 2009)
D Hiscock, S Sharma, L Attree et al, ‘On track for improved security? A survey tracking changing perceptions of public safety, security and justice provision in Nepal,’ (London/Kathmandu, Saferworld, 2009)
Report with Government of Sri Lanka National Commission Against the Proliferation of Illicit Small Arms, ‘Survey Report on the prevalence of illicit small arms in Sri Lanka,’ (Colombo, Saferworld/NCAPISA, 2008)
Supported strengthening of conflict prevention and peacebuilding architecture in the Pacific region under UNDP’s regional PEACEPAC programme
Report with Government of Sri Lanka National Commission Against the Proliferation of Illicit Small Arms, ‘Illegal small arms and light weapons pilot survey,’ (Colombo, Saferworld/NCAPISA, 2006)
National strategy with Independent State of Papua New Guinea: ‘National Gun Control Strategy,’ (Prime Minister and Minister for Internal Security’s policy submission adopted by National Executive Council), July 2005
Report with PNG Guns Control Committee: ‘Recommendations Consequent to Nationwide Consultations and the PNG Guns Summit,’ (July 2005)