Visiting Lecturer About Mareike Schomerus Mareike Schomerus (PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science) is Vice President at Busara. She is a widely published researcher on violent conflict and how international engagement responds to it; evidence-based policy and the mental models that can shape it; as well as behavioral mechanisms in post-conflict recovery, for which she has developed a body of work on the ‘mental landscape’ of lives in or after situations of violence. She has conducted applied multi-method research for a wide range of international organisations and was formerly Director of Programme Politics and Governance at ODI in London and Research Director of the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, also at ODI. She is the co-editor of two volumes (on African secessionism and South Sudan’s borderlands (Palgrave Macmillan) and author of the monographs The Lord’s Resistance Army: Violence and Peacemaking in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict (Bloomsbury, 2023). Contact Information mareikeschomerus@uchicago.edu Recent News Alumni Profile: Geet Chawla, MPP’21 Thu., September 21, 2023 Ali Fendrick and Troy Boyd Jr., Both AM'19, Apply Harris Toolkit to Schools in Chicago Wed., September 20, 2023 More news Upcoming Events Application Drop In Mon., September 25, 2023 | 3:00 PM Impact Investing and ESG Evening Reception with Kamran Khan, Gabriel Presler, and Professor Justin Marlowe Tue., September 26, 2023 | 5:00 PM Gleacher Center 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Dr. Room 300 Chicago, IL 60611 United States More events