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Editorial support for BGF's annual report 2022
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Policy brief with BOND et al, ‘Aid effectiveness in contexts of poor governance, conflict and fragility: A statement by UK relief, development and peacebuilding agencies ahead of Busan’ (UK Development NGOs’ joint statement, September 2011)
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Policy brief with Lauren Hutton, Ben Stevenson & Paul Murphy: ‘People’s Peacemaking Perspectives - South Sudan,’ (March 2012)
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‘Function before form: optimising the UN’s counter-terrorism architecture’ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, CSO Coalition on Counter-terrorism and Human Rights, Saferworld (June 2022)
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Coordinated civil society inputs into meetings of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding with a focus on conflict sensitivity, inclusion and accountability in donor-state-society relationships, and helped establish the CSO Platform for Peacebuilding & Statebuilding
Policy brief with Erin McCandless et al.: ‘Fulfilling New Deal commitments: Recommendations from civil society on maximising peacebuilding results,’ (CSO Platform for Peacebuilding & Statebuilding, August 2012)
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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)
Report with Hashitha Abeywardana & Thomas Ansorg, ‘Conflict-Sensitivity Assessment of EC programmes in Sri Lanka,’ (Saferworld, June 2009)
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Attree L, ‘Function before form: optimising the UN’s counter-terrorism architecture,’ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, CSO Coalition on Counter-terrorism and Human Rights, Saferworld (June 2022)
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Report with Irma Specht and Yvonne Kemper: ‘Red Shoes: Experiences of girl-combatants in Liberia,’ (Geneva, International Labour Organization, 2006)
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Article with Jordan Street: ‘Incompatible Bedfellows: UN Peace Operations and Counterterrorism,’ IPI Global Observatory, Sept 2020
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‘An Integrated Vision for Peace and Development? Building on the High Level Panel's Report,’ Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (Vol 8, No 2, 2013)
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'Ready for the storm? Labour's Foreign and Security Thinking,' (Labour Foreign Policy Group, Rethinking Security, September 2023)
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Article with David Keen: 'Syria: The West’s Three Biggest Blunders and How to Fix Them,' (2017)
Article with Farea Al-Muslimi: ‘US Counterterror Strategy Has Crashed and Burned,’ (2016)
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Transition International, 'Review of the Netherlands Strategic Partnership with DCAF', (August 2024)
Transition International, ‘Final Report Mid-Term Review: Knowledge Platform Security & Rule Of Law,’ (May 2023)
Provided evaluation of and training on conflict sensitivity at strategic and project level to aid agencies and governments (including Oxfam, EC, PACT, Netherlands & Sweden)
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Article: ‘Strategic Analysis Report No 2: Republic of Georgia,’ (Jan 2004)
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Voter Services Supervisor during Kosovan elections (2001)
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Provided evaluation of and training on conflict sensitivity at strategic and project level to aid agencies and governments (including Oxfam, EC, PACT, Netherlands & Sweden)
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Provided evaluation of and training on conflict sensitivity at strategic and project level to aid agencies and governments (including Oxfam, EC, PACT, Netherlands & Sweden)
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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)
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Practice guide: (forthcoming) 'Towards principled peacemaking: a playbook for security actors' Principles for Peace foundation
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Paths out of the polycrisis - 7-part Podcast series on UK responses to global security challenges (Feb-June 2024)
'Ready for the storm? Labour's Foreign and Security Thinking,' (Labour Foreign Policy Group, September 2023)
Attree L, ‘Russia’s Mobilisation and the Ghosts of 1914,’ (7 November 2022)
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Rynn S, Jones M, Attree L, ‘Furthering Global Britain? Reviewing the Foreign Policy Effect of UK Engagement in East Africa - Occasional Paper,’ (August 2023)
Jones M, Attree L, ‘Bargaining with the Green City in the Sun: An Appraisal of UK Engagement in Kenya,’ (August 2023)
Podcast guest: 'Episode 2: How Conflict Environments Complicate Countering Violent Extremism,' with Dr Jessica White, Raffaello Pantucci and Christory Hockey, RUSI's Decoding Counterterrorism (27 Feb 2023)
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Podcast guest: ‘New perspectives on stabilisation,’ with Rachel Kleinfeld, Andrei Gomez-Suarez, Warpod (29 June 2022)
Attree L, ‘Function before form: optimising the UN’s counter-terrorism architecture,’Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, CSO Coalition on Counter-terrorism and Human Rights (June 2022)
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)
Attree A, Watson A, ‘How guns fall silent: Analysing examples of relative success in integrated stabilisation,’ FCDO funded (May 2022)
Attree L, Street J, ‘No shortcuts to security: learning from responses to armed conflicts involving proscribed groups,’ FCDO funded (May 2022)
Attree L, Istrefi A, ‘Regional conflict analysis of the Western Balkans,’ Saferworld helpdesk task for Sida (December 2021)
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, co-hosted 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
Led Saferworld’s 2013, 2016 & 2020 External Environment Reviews and helped shape its 2014-17,2017-21 and 2021-25 Strategic plans and policy/advocacy strategies
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
Podcast guest: ‘Challenges facing international peace and stability,’ Warpod (19 Feb 2021)
Led Saferworld’s research and advocacy on peace and rights-based responses to crises and threats from 2014 to 2021 – looking at counter-terror, Countering/Preventing Violent Extremism (C/PVE), stabilisation, statebuilding and counter-migration policies and approaches
Developed a global civil society Security Policy Alternatives Network from 2017 to promote peace, human rights and civic space within international security interventions, comprised of over 100 civil society organisations and experts, leading to multiple collaborative research and advocacy initiatives
Report with Jordan Street: ‘Conflict sensitivity assessment of UNDP’s "Preventing and Responding to Violent Extremism in Africa: A Development Approach”,’ (Saferworld helpdesk task for Sida, November 2020)
Article with Jordan Street: ‘Incompatible Bedfellows: UN Peace Operations and Counterterrorism,’ IPI Global Observatory, Sept 2020
Article with Jordan Street: ‘Redefining a UN peace doctrine to avoid regime protection operations,’ (Saferworld/UN DPO think piece paper, 2020)
Project managed and edited, report by Jordan Street & Ali Altiok: ‘A fourth pillar for the United Nations? The rise of counter-terrorism,’ (June 2020)
Report: ‘Conflict analysis to inform MENA strategy,’ (Saferworld helpdesk task for Sida, Jan 2019)
Project managed and edited report by Jo Crouch: ‘Counter-terror and the logic of violence in Somalia’s civil war: time for a new approach,’ (Saferworld, Dec 2018)
Report with Jordan Street & Luca Venchiarutti: ‘UN peace operations in complex environments: charting the right course,’ (2018)
Policy brief: 'Building peace into refugee responses: Syrian refugees in Lebanon,' (2018)
Report with Saleem Haddad & Lola Aliaga: ‘Building peace into refugee responses: Syrian refugees in Lebanon,’ (2018)
Article: ‘Five challenges the UN’s “sustaining peace” agenda needs to address,’ (2018)
Advisory inputs provided into Thematic Overview by Sida: 'Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) through development,' (Sida, 2017)
Project managed and edited) report by David Keen: ‘Syria: Playing into their hands: regime and international roles in fuelling violence and fundamentalism in the Syrian war,’ (2017)
Project managed and edited report: ‘We need to talk about Egypt: how brutal counter-terrorism is failing Egypt and its allies,’ (2017)
Project managed and edited report by Lola Aliaga & Kloe O’Farrell: ‘Counter-terror in Tunisia: a road paved with good intentions?’ (2017)
Long-read article: ‘Shouldn’t YOU be Countering Violent Extremism,’(2017)
Report with Thomas Nyagah: ‘Inside Kenya’s war on terror: the case of Lamu,’ (2017)
Report with Chris Wakube: ‘Inside Kenya’s war on terror: breaking the cycle of violence in Garissa,’ (2017)
Policy brief with Sunil Suri: ‘A new war on terror or a new search for peace: lessons from Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen,’ (2016)
Project managed and edited report by Sunil Suri: ‘Barbed wire on our heads: lessons from counter-terror, stabilisation and statebuilding in Somalia,’ (2016)
Project managed and edited report by Hesta Groenewald: ‘Hammering the bread and the nail: lessons from counter-terror, stabilisation and statebuilding in Afghanistan,’ (2016)
Report: ‘Blown back: lessons from counter-terror, stabilisation and statebuilding in Yemen,’ (2016)
Policy brief: ‘What lessons should be learnt from 15 years of counter-terror and stabilisation?’ (2016)
Article: ‘Will the SDSR be strategic enough about conflict prevention?’ (2015)
Article: ‘The UK and extremism: understanding the problem and owning our values,’ (2015)
Report with David Keen: ‘Dilemmas of counterterror, stabilisation and statebuilding,’ (2015)
From 2010-2015, led Saferworld's research and advocacy efforts to ensure development focused more on conflict prevention and peacebuilding, including successfully advocating for inclusion of SDG16+ commitments to peace, justice and governance in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, influencing the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States and the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation and a number of direct impacts on the policies of national governments, political parties, NGOs and international agencies
Policy brief with David Keen: ‘Envisaging More Constructive Alternatives To The Counter-Terror Paradigm,’ (2015)
Report chapter with David Keen: ‘Envisaging More Constructive Alternatives To The Counter-Terror Paradigm,’ in Institute for Economics & Peace, Global Terrorism Index 2014: measuring and understanding the impact of terrorism, (IEP, 2014)
Policy brief with Sunil Suri, Anna Moeller Loswick, Thomas Wheeler and Ivan Campbell: ‘From the Sustainable Development Goals to the Post-2015 Development Framework: Building a Consensus for Peace,’ (2014)
Practice guide with Will Bennett, Rob Parker et al.: ‘Community Security Handbook,’ (2014)
Report with Tim Midgley, Ivan Briscoe et al: ‘Identifying approaches and measuring impacts of programmes focused on Transnational Organised Crime,’ (Saferworld/Small Arms Survey for DFID, 2014)
Report with Tim Midgley, Thomas Wheeler et al.: ‘Defining and measuring the external stress factors that lead to conflict in the context of the post-2015 agenda,’ (Saferworld/CDA for DFID, 2014)
Article: ‘The whole shebang? Why achieving development and security means working on governance,’ (ODI - post-2015.org & Saferworld comment, September 2013)
Article with Sunil Suri: ‘A South African agenda for the post-2015 framework?’ (Saferworld comment, September 2013)
Article: ‘From the High Level Panel report to an accountability framework,’ (Saferworld briefing, June 2013)
Article: ‘High Level Panel report represents a transformative shift towards peace,’ (Saferworld comment, May 2013)
Article: ‘Will the High Level Panel answer the world’s call for a progressive post-2015 framework?’ (Saferworld comment, April 2013)
Policy brief with Hannah Wright: ‘Addressing conflict and violence from 2015: A Vision of Goals, Targets and Indicators,’ (February 2013)
Report with Henk-Jan Brinkman & Sasa Hezir: ‘Addressing horizontal inequalities as drivers of conflict in the post-2015 development agenda,’ (Saferworld/UN PBSO, February 2013)
Policy brief with Shelagh Daley:‘UN High Level Panel framing questions,’ (Saferworld submission, January 2013)
Policy brief with Sara Skinner: ‘Addressing conflict and violence from 2015 - Issue Paper 1: The impact of conflict and violence on achieving development,’ (November 2012)
Policy brief: ‘Addressing conflict and violence from 2015 - Issue Paper 2: What are the key challenges? What works in addressing them?’ (November 2012)
Policy brief with Ivan Campbell, Rob Muggah, Dan Large & Thomas Wheeler: ‘Addressing conflict and violence from 2015 - Issue Paper 3: Rising powers and conflict,’ (November 2012)
Policy brief with Hannah Wright & Simon Gray: ‘Approaching post-2015 from a peace perspective,’ (Saferworld briefing, September 2012)
Article: ‘Post-2015: treading the path to peace,’ (Saferworld blog, August 2012)
Coordinated civil society inputs into meetings of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding with a focus on conflict sensitivity, inclusion and accountability in donor-state-society relationships, and helped establish the CSO Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding
Policy brief with Lauren Hutton, Ben Stevenson & Paul Murphy: ‘People’s Peacemaking Perspectives - South Sudan,’ (Conciliation Resources, March 2012)
Article with Sara Skinner & Choul Nhial: ‘A state in crisis: Jonglei’, & L Attree, A Giera, ‘Conflict dynamics and the oil impasse’ in ‘South Sudan Monitor,’ (February 2012)
Report Chapter: ‘Sudan and South Sudan,’ in I Campbell, T Wheeler, L Attree, D Butler, B Mariani, ‘China and conflict-affected states: Between principle and pragmatism,’ (January 2012)
Developed the feasibility study for a UK-funded conflict and governance mapping system for donors and aid agencies working in Somalia
Report: ‘Drawing boundaries in the Western Balkans: A people’s perspective,’ (October 2011)
Policy brief with Ivan Campbell & Katrina Aitken:‘A big step forward – a long path ahead: Saferworld response to the World Development Report 2011,’ (May 2011)
Policy brief with Duncan Hiscock: ‘What hope for development without peace? Rethinking budget support to promote peace and EU values,’ (January 2011)
Policy brief with Duncan Hiscock: ‘No peace, no security, no justice – no long-term impact’: Saferworld contribution to the consultation on the EU Green Paper: EU development policy in support of inclusive growth and sustainable development – Increasing the impact of EU development policy’ (January 2011)
Report: 'Sudan: Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst?' (Dec 2010)
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, 2010)
Report with Hashitha Abeywardana & Thomas Ansorg, ‘Conflict-Sensitivity Assessment of EC programmes in Sri Lanka,’ (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, 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)
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)
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)
Report chapters on Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro: ‘Analysis of national legislation on arms exports and transfers in the Western Balkans,’ (Belgrade, Saferworld/SEESAC, 2006)
Report with Paul Holtom, Henry Smith, Bernardo Mariani, Simon Rynn & Juliana Sokolova: ‘Turning the Page: small arms and light weapons in Albania,’ (CPDE/Saferworld, 2005)
Report with Philip Gounev & Bernardo Mariani: ‘Weapons Under Scrutiny: Implementing arms export controls and combating small arms proliferation in Bulgaria,’ (Saferworld/CSD, April 2004)
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Report: ‘Strategic overview of armed violence data collection and analysis mechanisms (South East Europe),’ (Belgrade, SEESAC, 2006)
Report chapters on Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro: ‘Analysis of national legislation on arms exports and transfers in the Western Balkans,’ (Belgrade, Saferworld/SEESAC, 2006)
Report: ‘SALW Awareness in Schools – Towards a National Curriculum,’ (Belgrade, SEESAC, 2005)
Report: ‘SASP Test in North East Serbia – Evaluation Report,’ (Belgrade, SEESAC, 2005)
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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)
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)
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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
Report with Jordan Street: ‘Conflict sensitivity assessment of UNDP’s "Preventing and Responding to Violent Extremism in Africa: A Development Approach”,’ (Saferworld helpdesk task for Sida, November 2020)
Report: ‘Conflict analysis to inform MENA strategy,’ (Saferworld helpdesk task for Sida, Jan 2019)
Advisory inputs provided into Thematic Overview by Sida: 'Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) through development,' (2017)
Provided evaluation of and training on conflict sensitivity at strategic and project level to aid agencies and governments (including Oxfam, EC, PACT, Netherlands & Sweden)
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Teaching modules on weapons management and community security and assessing participants on an advanced course on reintegration of excombatants, Barcelona (July 2022 & 2023)
'Review of the Netherlands Strategic Partnership with DCAF' (August 2024)
‘Final Report Mid-Term Review: Knowledge Platform Security & Rule Of Law,' (May 2023)
Co-ordinated primary research and writing a Socio-Economic Profiling and Opportunity Mapping to plan reintegration of ex-combatants in North and South Sudan (for Transition Internationaland UNDDR/UNDP), and trained Sudan’s DDR Commissions in reintegration planning
Article with Irma Specht: ‘The reintegration of teenage girls and young women,’ Intervention (2006), Volume 4, Number 3, pp 219-228
Report with Yvonne Kemper & Irma Specht: ‘Children and Armed Conflict: the Response of the EU,’ (Transition International paper for UNIDIR project: European Action on Small Arms, Light Weapons and Explosive Remnants of War)
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Member of the UK Goverment's Civilian Stablisation Group roster as a Conflict Prevention expert
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)
Report with Abigail Watson: ‘How guns fall silent: Analysing examples of relative success in integrated stabilisation,’ (Saferworld/FCDO funded, May 2022)
Report with Tim Midgley, Ivan Briscoe et al: ‘Identifying approaches and measuring impacts of programmes focused on Transnational Organised Crime,’ (Saferworld/Small Arms Survey for DFID, 2014)
Report with Tim Midgley, Thomas Wheeler et al.: ‘Defining and measuring the external stress factors that lead to conflict in the context of the post-2015 agenda,’ (Saferworld/CDA for DFID, 2014)
Developed the feasibility study for a UK-funded conflict and governance mapping system for donors and aid agencies working in Somalia
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Member of the International Development Taskforce advising the UK Shadow Development Secretary on Labour’s 2018 green paper: ‘A World for the Many Not the Few: the Labour Party’s Vision for International Development,’ (Labour, 2018)
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Article with Jordan Street: ‘Redefining a UN peace doctrine to avoid regime protection operations,’ (Saferworld/UN DPO think piece paper, 2020)
Attree L, Street J & Venchiarutti L, ‘UN peace operations in complex environments: charting the right course,’ (Saferworld, 2018)
Article: ‘Five challenges the UN’s “sustaining peace” agenda needs to address,’ (Saferworld, 2018)
Article with Anna Möller-Loswick: ‘Goal 16: Ensuring Peace in the Post-2015 Framework: Adoption, Implementation and Monitoring,’ UN Chronicle, (Vol.LI No.4, 2015)
Speech to world leaders on the adoption of SDG16: ‘Mr Larry Attree, Saferworld,’ at UN Sustainable Development Summit 2015
Report with Henk-Jan Brinkman & Sasa Hezir: ‘Addressing horizontal inequalities as drivers of conflict in the post-2015 development agenda,’ (Saferworld/UN PBSO, February 2013)
Practice guide: UN CASA, 'International SALW Control Standards Module 05.10 - SALW Surveys'
Supported strengthening of conflict prevention and peacebuilding architecture in the Pacific region under UNDP's regional PEACEPAC programme
Co-ordinated primary research and writing a Socio-Economic Profiling and Opportunity Mapping to plan reintegration of ex-combatants in North and South Sudan (for Transition International and UNDDR/UNDP), and trained Sudan’s DDR Commissions in reintegration planning
Report with Yvonne Kemper & Irma Specht: ‘Children and Armed Conflict: the Response of the EU,’ (Transition International paper for UNIDIR project: European Action on Small Arms, Light Weapons and Explosive Remnants of War)
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)
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Clients
My resume includes employment, partnership, consultancy or advisory work with a wide range of national governments, multi-lateral, non-governmental and civil society organisations, think-tanks and media outlets.