Mareike Schomerus
Visiting Lecturer at Harris School of Public Policy
Research Consortium Director of the Justice and Security Research Programme at The London School of Economics and Political Science
Schools
- Harris School of Public Policy
- The London School of Economics and Political Science
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Biography
Harris School of Public Policy
Mareike Schomerus (PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science) is Vice President at Busara. She is a widely published researcher on violent conflict and how international engagement responds to it; evidence-based policy and the mental models that can shape it; as well as behavioral mechanisms in post-conflict recovery, for which she has developed a body of work on the ‘mental landscape’ of lives in or after situations of violence. She has conducted applied multi-method research for a wide range of international organisations and was formerly Director of Programme Politics and Governance at ODI in London and Research Director of the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, also at ODI. She is the co-editor of two volumes (on African secessionism and South Sudan’s borderlands (Palgrave Macmillan) and author of the monographs The Lord’s Resistance Army: Violence and Peacemaking in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict (Bloomsbury, 2023).
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Experience Keywords
Lord''s Resistance Army (LRA); conflict resolution; human security; humanitarian aid; media; peace processes; peacebuilding; peacemaking; small arms; violent conflict
Research Summary
I work on violent conflict and the myriad reasons why violence continues. Several questions are important to me: Why does violence continue? What are the motivations of actors involved in conflict? What role do local, national and international interventions play? What is the best way to achieve security for civilian populations? And in addition to creating a peaceful environment, what is needed to make peace and create an environment of human security? To acknowledge the broad range of elements that are part of peace, I aim to look at violence from a holistic angle. This means that I attempt to understand both the motivations of those who commit violence and the context in which violence occurs. Inevitably, this means that I examine social, political and economic processes, including processes of conflict resolution. In some cases, conflict resolution attempts create a situation in which the continuation of the conflict still remains the more viable choice for one or several conflict parties. This is particularly striking when analyzing peace processes that fail. At which point and why does a peace process become a continuation of the violent conflict?
Research Countries
South Sudan; Uganda
Languages
French [Spoken: Basic, Written: N/A]; German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]
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