About STEPHANIE E. EFFEVOTTU
Stephanie E. Effevottu is a Historian and an experienced Gender Equality, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GESI) Expert who specialises in climate change, migration, conflict, and peacebuilding using cutting-edge and multidisciplinary approaches.
My professional experience in gender, conflict, and peacebuilding can be broken down into my academic engagement, research contributions, and engagements in grassroots and international youth peacebuilding initiatives.
I have academic background in history, with a focus on development studies. I also have several certifications related to peace, security and development from renowned institutes such as the United States Institute of Peace, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and the Peace Operation Training Institutes.
I have also attended and facilitated capacity building activities in conflict management and transformation, dialogue facilitation, conflict analysis, resilience and community building, peacebuilding, and policy advocacy.
As a peace and development scholar, I have conducted several qualitative and quantitative research on different themes relevant toconflict, peace, and development, including migration, climate change, women empowerment, and peacebuilding, with several publications to my credit.
As a professional peacebuilding practitioner in the non-profit sector, I possess extensive experience in coordinating, planning, implementing, and supporting programmes in conflict prevention, sustainable development, and strategic peacebuilding across communities in Nigeria. I also have experience in helping young people tell their story, explore their potential and resources to create positive change in their community through social impact projects.
My areas of expertise and interests also include:
-religion’s role in conflict and peacebuilding
-project proposal writing and management
-conflict analysis
-conflict transformation
-youth leadership development
-sustainable peacebuilding and development.
I visionise a world in which peace and justice prevail and remain committed to promoting peace.
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