Guide to Specialists

Dorina Bekoe
Senior Research Associate

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Phone: (202) 429-4708

E-mail: dbekoe@usip.org

Dorina A. Bekoe is a senior research associate in the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, where she specializes in African conflicts, political development, institutional reform and peace agreement implementation. She manages a project on political transition in Africa that includes work on electoral violence, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire and organizes working groups on Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Her previous research focused on the incentives for warring parties to comply with peace agreements, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and its related African Peer Review Mechanism, and the regionalization of conflict in Africa.

Bekoe holds a B.A. in economics from Franklin and Marshall College, an M.S. in public policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.

Publications:

• Kenya: Setting the Stage for Durable Peace?
  USIPeace Briefing (April 2008)
• Kenya: Post-Election Paroxysm
  On the Issues (January 2008)
• Côte d'Ivoire: Ensuring a Peaceful Political Transition
  USIPeace Briefing (December 2007)
• "The Conflicts in Sudan: American and European Policies," The Challenge of Islamists for EU and US Policies: Conflict, Stability and Reform." (SWP and USIP, November 2007).
• The Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
  USIPeace Briefing (October 2007)
• Implementing Peace Agreements: Lessons from Mozambique, Angola, and Liberia, forthcoming. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
• Sudan?s 2009 Elections: Critical Issues and Timelines
  USIPeace Briefing (August 2007)
• Developing and Managing Congo?s Natural Resources
  USIPeace Briefing (July 2007)
• Women?s Role in Liberia?s Reconstruction
  USIPeace Briefing (May 2007)
• Zimbabwe?s Latest Crackdown: Responses and Consequences
  USIPeace Briefing (May 2007)
• Security Sector Reform in Liberia: Domestic Considerations and the Way Forward
  USIPeace Briefing (April 2007)
• Nigeria 2007: Building Blocks for a Peaceful Transition Workshop Report
  USIPeace Briefing (March 2007)
• Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in Eastern Sudan
  USIPeace Briefing (September 2006)
• Overcoming Obstacles to Humanitarian Assistance in Darfur
  USIPeace Briefing (January 2006)
• East Africa and the Horn: Confronting Challenges to Good Governance, editor. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005).
• "Toward a Theory of Peace Agreement Implementation: The Case of Liberia," Phases of Conflict in Africa, edited by Rose M. Kadende-Kaiser and Paul J. Kaiser. (Willowdale, Canada: de Sitter Publications, 2005).
• "Mutual Vulnerability and the Implementation of Peace Agreements: Examples from Mozambique, Angola, and Liberia," International Journal of Peace Studies Vol. 10, no. 2 (Autumn/Winter 2005), pp. 43-68.
• Strategies for Peace in the Niger Delta
  USIPeace Briefing (December 2005)
• Resolving the Boundary Dispute in Sudan's Abyei Region
  USIPeace Briefing (October 2005)
• "Creating a Reliable African Peer Review Mechanism," Chimera 1 (Winter 2003): 2-9.
• "Côte d'Ivoire: What Prospects for Peace?," West Africa (May 12-18, 2003).

Also available on usip.org

• On the Issues: Zimbabwe's Electoral Violence
  July 2008
• On the Issues: Kenya
  January 10, 2008