On December 29, 2019 BBC’s Dotun Adebayo interviewed Phoebe Donnelly about al-Shabaab’s activities in Somalia. Phoebe highlighted her research on the way al-Shabaab uses relationships, specifically forced marriage, to strengthen…
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Phoebe Donnelly is a Senior Fellow and Head of the Women, Peace and Security program at the International Peace Institute. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
Phoebe’s doctoral dissertation on forced marriage by rebel groups won the Peter Ackerman Award for the outstanding doctoral dissertation at The Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2019.
Phoebe is a Feinstein International Center visiting fellow and was previously a Women and Public Policy research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. She received her PhD in International Relations from The Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2019, a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2013, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008.
At IPI, Phoebe leads convenings and research on topics including gender and peace operations, gender-based violence, and on advancing the WPS agenda.
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