Recent Invited Lectures and Keynote Speeches

• ‘State of the Field: Charting a Collective Agenda for Gender and Climate Security Research’. Panel Discussion organized by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security as part of the Berlin Climate and Security Conference. October 5, 2021 | online

• ‘South Sudan’s War Crimes Court: Is There New Hope for Justice in the World’s Newest Nation?’ Online seminar organized by the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, the University of Johannesburg Human Rights and International Law Centre, and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. March 25, 2021 | online

• ‘Gender, Climate Change, & Security Risks in Egypt: Opportunities for Synergistic Action’. A Global Learning Event on “People and Planet: Gender, Environment and Climate in the 2030 Agenda”. Organized by SIDA Partnership Forum in collaboration with UN Women, UNEP, the Swedish Dialogue Institute for the Middle East and North Africa, and Stockholm Environment Institute. March 16^th-18^th, 2021 | online

• ‘Climate Change, Mass Violence & Human Mobility: Through a Gender Lens’. Paper presented at a panel discussion on “Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and Mass Violence: Intersections with Gender”, convened by the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the Raphaël Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program, and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. February 10th, 2021 | online

• ‘Conference on Water and Peace: Promoting Security through Equitable Governance, Policy & Technology’. Series of panel presentations on water governance for security, sustainability, and resiliency with an eye to peace norms and ethics in preparation for the 2021 World Water Forum in Senegal with guest speakers and panelists from all over the world. Sep 24th, 2020 |online

• ‘Disasters, Gender, Peace & Conflict‘. This panel discussion on lights on the multifaceted and complex interlinkages between disasters, gender, peace, and conflict in various world regions.This event is co-sponsored by the Disasters and Resilience Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx), the EnPAx Gender Interest Group, and the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne. September, 21st, 2020 | online

• ‘Women, Water, and Resilience’. Round table on hydro-diplomacy convened by the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, the Global Water Security Coalition, and Global Water 2020. The Wilson Center, Washington, DC.  July 11, 2019.

• ‘Youth’s Role in South Sudan’s Perfect Storm: Climate Change, Conflict, and the Prospects for Peacebuilding in the World’s Newest Nation’.  Panel on Peace and Displacement in South Sudan. School of International Service – No Lost Generation, Washington, DC, March 4^th, 2019.

• ‘Peace Conferences, Ethnic Violence, and Restorative Justice: The Case of South Sudan’. School of International Service – Africa Research Cluster. American University. Washington, DC, November 6^th, 2018.

• ‘Highlights on the 61^st Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations’. Alliance for Peacebuilding, Washington, DC, March 28^th, 2017.

• ‘Shifting Paradigms: The Role of Young Girls and Boys in Building Peace and Security’. The Wilson Center’s Global Sustainability and Resilience Program, and UNFPA. October 6, 2016.

• ‘Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy’. Institute of Social Research. Oslo, Norway. 8-9 January 2015.

• ‘Peacebuilders or Spoilers? South Sudanese Youth’s Role in Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Reconstruction’. US Institute for Peace – University of South Carolina Rule of Law Collaborative.  Columbia, SC, October 2013.

• ‘South Sudanese Youth and the Climate Change-Displacement-Security Nexus’. US Institute of Peace – Georgia Regents University Education for Peacebuilding Support Initiative. Augusta, GA, Oct. 2013.