Education

2000, IB diploma, Waterford Kamhlaba UWC SA

2004, BA political science, Uppsala University (also courses at Vesalius College, Brussels, University of Gothenburg, University of Stockholm and the National Defense College, Sweden)

2005, MA political science, Uppsala University

2005, MA social science (Developing Democracy), Uppsala University

2007, spring, enrolled in PhD program at the Department of Government, Uppsala University

2011, PhD in political science, Department of Government, Uppsala University 

Research Interests

Synergies between peacebuilding and democratization; the role of ex-combatants in politics; conditioning factors of political reintegration of ex-combatants; policy feedback and the creation of politics as a result of policy design/implementation, such as DDR; Liberia, Sierra Leone and Africa; Colombia, political sociology; methodology; focus groups; life history interviews.

Teaching Interests

Substantive: political sociology, peacebuilding, democratization, comparative politics.

Methodological: focus groups, life history interviews, experiments, participant observation, regression analysis, MLE.