Projects

Trust-building and countering violent extremism in Northern Ghana

Until recently, I served as the Deputy Chief of Party on Trust2Peace, a USAID-funded conflict prevention program in northern Ghana, alongside my colleague, John McCauley at the University of Maryland. This project was approved for 5 years and was funded at $4.2M.

Measuring social cohesion, adversary information operations, and conflict in Africa

Until the cancellation of the Minerva Initiative at the Department of Defense, I served as the Principal Investigator on a project examining three core questions related to social cohesion, misinformation, and the formation of groups in troubled democracies. This project was supposed to run for 5 years and was funded at $3.9M.

Community-level trust-building in conflict-affected Zimbabwe

From 2022 to 2024, I served as the Principal Investigator on a multi-year project measuring the impact of USAID-style community interventions in 12 communities in Zimbabwe. This project was funded at $200,000 under the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Peacebuilding in Africa program.