Tim Luccaro

Tim Luccaro currently oversees multiple research and pilot projects on access to justice and community-based conflict resolution in the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Kabul office. He has worked for USIP since 2008 on programs related to customary justice, legal pluralism, and transitional justice. He has worked closely with international and national partners in Liberia, the Two Sudans, and Afghanistan on policy and programming related to engagements with non-state actors and community-based processes for dispute resolution. In addition to conducting field research in Africa and Asia, he has led trainings on research techniques and methodology for international and domestic partners. He previously worked for the World Bank's Justice for the Poor program on issues related to strengthening justice in conflict-affected states. While there, he wrote about justice reform efforts in sub-Saharan Africa and helped develop field guides to rule of law research and conflict-affected states. He has a B.A. from Davidson College and a M.A. in Anthropology and International Development from the George Washington University.

Publications:

• "Through Ballot or Bullet," author, Huffington Post, November 2010.