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SUMMARY:Practitioner Series: Comfort Ero  - Comfort Ero (President\, Inter
 national Crisis Group)
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CONTACT:Anusha Arumugam
DESCRIPTION:In-person! Drinks reception to follow after talk! Sign up: htt
 ps://www.tickettailor.com/events/centreofgovernanceandhumanrightsuniversit
 yofcambridge/1184649# \n\nDr. Comfort Ero assumed the role of Crisis Group
 ’s President & CEO in December 2021\, following her tenure as the organi
 zation's West Africa Project Director since 2001. She progressed within th
 e organization to serve as Africa Program Director and later as Interim Vi
 ce President starting in January 2021.\n\nThroughout her career\, Dr. Ero 
 has dedicated herself to addressing conflicts in various capacities\, incl
 uding as Deputy Africa Program Director for the International Centre for T
 ransitional Justice from 2008 to 2010 and as Political Affairs Officer and
  Policy Advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in 
 Liberia from 2004 to 2007. She holds a PhD from the London School of Econo
 mics\, University of London\, and is involved in multiple boards and advis
 ory bodies.\n\nDr. Ero's expertise lies in conflict prevention\, mediation
 \, peacekeeping\, transitional justice\, and the politics and internationa
 l relations of Africa. Her professional background includes roles such as 
 Research Fellow at the Conflict\, Security & Development Group\, Centre fo
 r Defence Studies\, King's College\, London\, and Research Associate at th
 e International Institute for Strategic Studies\, London. She is fluent in
  English and proficient in French.\n\nPractitioner Series:\n\nCGHR runs a 
 Practitioner Series each year in Lent term\, which often features rights a
 ctivists\, aid practitioners and journalists etc. Our speakers relate stor
 ies about their own experience — how they came to work in the field that
  they are in — with details about what the work itself involves. The ses
 sion thus offers a combination of substantive discussion of the speaker’
 s work and critical views on the challenges of working in their area\, as 
 well as personal and practical insights into how they ended up doing what 
 they do and how they would advise others thinking about practice/policy as
  a possible future after studies/research. CGHR ’s Practitioner Series p
 rovides students (both undergrads and postgrads) and researchers with the 
 chance to ask questions of people that they might not normally have access
  to.
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