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Maiwen Dot Pheot Ngalueth

Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding
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PROFILE 

 

Maiwen Ngalueth is a researcher and practitioner with over 15 years of experience in armed conflict, humanitarian action, peacebuilding and international development, with experience working on different countries across Africa and the MENA region. His areas of interest bridge research, policy and practice, with particular interests in armed groups governance and diplomacy, security sector governance and reform, the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, and questions of bordering and territorial contestation.

Prior to joining the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Maiwen spent more than eight years with Geneva Call in different capacities, engaging armed groups and other de facto authorities on their conduct towards civilians and working extensively with diplomatic missions, international organisations and humanitarian actors to enhance the protection of civilians. His experience spans the Horn and Central Africa, the Sahel, and the MENA region. He previously worked with MSF, the ICRC, UNHCR and the Enough Project, and has established and led non-profit initiatives in South Sudan and Switzerland focused on peacebuilding and advocacy on refugee issues.

Maiwen holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs, specialising in Global Security, from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and a Master’s degree in Humanitarian Studies from the University of Geneva. He is currently starting his doctoral research on “rebel diplomacy”.

 

THEMATIC EXPERTISE

 

  • International development
  • Security studies

 

Research Interests

 

  • Security-development nexus
  • Humanitarian action and human security
  • Rebel governance/diplomacy
  • International protection/interventions
  • Contested sovereignty
  • Border studies

 

GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE

  • Africa
  • MENA

 

recent and ongoing/pending publications:

 

Deng, F. M., & Ngalueth, M. (2026). When sovereignty fragments, who protects the people? Toward human security as responsibility in an era of contested authority. ACCORD.

Geneva Graduate Institute. (2020). The social order of non-state armed groups and humanitarian dialogue: A regional comparison (Faculty Lead: Claudia Seymour).

Enough Project. (2014). Looming crisis: Open wounds in Abyei increase risk of new war. Washington, DC.

Grace, R., Ngalueth, M., & Todisco, C. (n.d.). The "triple nexus" in Abyei Area, South Sudan: An assessment of challenges and prospects of linking humanitarian, development, and peace programs [Ongoing research project]. Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, Brown University.

 

FELLOWSHIPS, Grants and AWARDS

 

  • Global Fellows at Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies: From 2020 - 2022 where I was also the recipient of a research seed grant to study the humanitarian-development-peace nexus in the context of the contested Abyei area along the borders of Sudan and South Sudan.
  • Winner of the Geneva Graduate Institute Refugee Scholarship for the academic year 2019
  • Atlas Corps Fellow in the United States, where I worked as a Researcher at the Enough Project in Washington DC, United States in 2014

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