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Lauren Spink

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Lauren Spink (@lspink01) is Senior Global Researcher at the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), providing high-level research support to CIVIC’s Peacekeeping, MENA, and Africa teams, including design of research methodologies, direct or partnered field research, and mentoring of staff on research practices.

Articles by this author:

Behind what appears to be a makeshift fence, a woman carries a sack of grain on her head as she stops to buy some local pastries at a roadside stall in Wau, South Sudan, on February 1, 2020. About 13,000 civilians were sheltered there under UN protection adjacent to the field office of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), just outside Wau town. They had fled massacres and burnings of villages during a ruinous six-year conflict between forces loyal to the government of South Sudan President Salva Kiir and those of his political rival, former Vice President Riek Machar. A string of failed truces and hollow promises has spawned distrust in the two rival leaders now facing intense pressure to uphold a permanent peace agreement. (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

In South Sudan, Keep UN Peacekeepers Focused on Evolving Risks for Civilians

Dec. 17, 2021 Lauren Spink