I am a first-year MPhil candidate in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford. I research post-conflict peacebuilding, with a focus on ex-combatant reintegration, transitional justice, and the legacies of violence. My MPhil research—supervised by Dr Neta Crawford—discusses long-term trajectories of ex-combatants and analyses how exposure to violence affects ex-combatants' understandings of and desire for post-conflict justice.
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Quantitative Political Science. I study comparative political behavior, with a focus on political socialisation, intergroup relations, and political participation. In my dissertation, I investigate the impact of various education policies on citizens' social and political attitudes towards ethnic outgroups within their countries. These include (1) the language of instruction in schools, (2) civic and citizenship education, and (3) the types of books that students read in schools.
This one and a half day conference, organized by Prof. Giovanni Capoccia and Prof. Isabela Mares (Yale) brings together scholars from Europe and the US to analyze in comparative and historical perspective the conditions of viability of the strategies that pro-democratic forces can adopt to counter the rise of illiberalism in liberal democracies.
I specialize in computational methods in social science with a particular interest in modelling complex social systems through the lens of political violence. Some of my research topics include:
Organisational structure and group decision making in insurgency
Graph theory, chaotic systems, and modelling collective behavior
Beyond Binaries: A Fuzzy Set-Theoretic Model for Classifying Political Violence
Women As Weapons: Explaining Boko Haram’s Female Suicide Bombers