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Lotte Vermeij

Independent Researcher / Child Soldier Expert / Writer / Freelance Journalist
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Independent researcher / Child soldier expert / Writer / Freelance journalist / Consultant

Lotte Vermeij is an independent researcher with substantial field research experience in (post) conflict zones. Her specialties are child soldiers, rebel groups, armed conflict, and socialization within armed groups. She is interested in research projects, consulting, freelance journalism, and academic work.

 

Background 

Lotte received her B.A. from University College Maastricht, the Netherlands, and studied Political Science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She completed an MPhil. degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway, and then relocated to Africa where she researched the socialization of child soldiers within rebel groups. She conducted hundreds of interviews with child soldiers and rebel commanders in Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Mozambique. In the near future she is planning to extend her research to Angola, Burundi, Sudan, and Somalia.

Her research has been awarded several grants and recognition, including highly competitive grants from the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, the Nordic Africa Institute, and the Foundation for the Freedom of Speech, Oslo.

Lotte is currently finalizing a book on the socialization of child soldiers within rebel groups. Based on over 700 personal interviews with child soldiers, her book will reveal how children are turned into soldiers and how their allegiance to rebel groups is created. Besides that it will focus on their future: it will indicate how current rehabilitation and reintegration programs can be improved in order to work towards a brighter future for these children and their communities.

Lotte Vermeij is a PhD candidate at Disaster Studies at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and an affiliate of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). Besides that, she works as a columnist for OneWorld, and as a freelance correspondent for Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Radio 1, BNN and MalariaWorld.

 

 

 

Recent Posts
  • Amsatou Sow Sidibé is de enige vrouwelijke presidentskandidate in Senegal (Artikel voor OneWorld)
  • Tanzania: Survivors of Boat Disaster Demand Answers (Article for Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
  • Waarom?! (Column voor Internationale Samenwerking)
  • Vote for UN General Assembly!
  • Trots (Column voor Internationale Samenwerking)
  • Send Lotte to the UN!
  • Moderne slavendrijvers (Column voor Internationale Samenwerking)
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Recent Posts
  • Amsatou Sow Sidibé is de enige vrouwelijke presidentskandidate in Senegal (Artikel voor OneWorld)
  • Tanzania: Survivors of Boat Disaster Demand Answers (Article for Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
  • Waarom?! (Column voor Internationale Samenwerking)
  • Vote for UN General Assembly!
  • Trots (Column voor Internationale Samenwerking)
Recent Comments
  • Polak. B.J.R. on Waarom?! (Column voor Internationale Samenwerking)
  • Inger Daulerio on South Africa: Human Trafficking and the 2010 FIFA World Cup
  • Chana. on Zimbabwe: Child Soldiers and Blood Diamonds
  • vakantiehuis on De Tragiek van een Ex-Kindsoldaat (Column voor Internationale Samenwerking)
  • Peter on The LRA: A Never Ending Struggle?
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@lizvanhijkoop Dank! Jij zit nu op Zanzibar hè? Enige verandering in de situatie?
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