Dr. Claudia Seymour - author, applied social researcher, lecturer
Today I am very excited to speak with Dr. Claudia Seymour, an applied social researcher with over 20 years of experience, working primarily in conflict-affected environments. Her research specializations include youth, child protection, resilience to armed violence, children’s disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, and young people’s engagement with violence.
Claudia’s experience spans sub-saharan Africa including DRC, Burundi, Central African Republic, Liberia, and Nigeria. In addition to her extensive experience working with the United Nations and international NGOs, and think tanks, she is also a trainer, lecturer, and Senior Researcher with the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and the Department of Development Studies at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Claudia also works with the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, including in support of Geneva Peace Week.
Claudia is the author of The Myth of International Protection, a book based on a decade of her work as an international protection actor and researcher; this book tells the stories of young Congolese surviving violence, and reflects on how international aid can do harm.
And if she wasn’t busy enough, she is currently researching a project, ‘Balancing on the margins: young people’s pathways to engaging with/transforming violence,’ is a comparative interdisciplinary inquiry into how young people cope with and make sense of violence, drawing on mixed methods including ethnography, narratives, and the practice of yoga and pranayama.
So, welcome Claudia!
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