Marika Theros, PhD is a nonresident senior fellow at the Strategic Litigation Project and the director of the Civic Engagement Project (CEP), which jointly runs the Inside the Taliban’s Gender Apartheid initiative.  As part of CEP, she has advised on peace processes, ran track 1.5/2 processes, and supports coalition-building and communications strategies for women and civic leaders seeking inclusion, justice and human rights.  She is also a policy fellow at LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and co-founder of the Civic Ecosystems Initiative.  

Her work focuses on political mobilization, human rights, global-local dynamics of violence and change, the politics of knowledge production, and peace process design support in the Balkans, Latin America, South Asia, the Middle East and Somalia. She completed her PhD at the London School of Economics, M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University and MSc in Human Rights at LSE. She has published widely in academic journals, including International Affairs, Global Policy, Peacebuilding, Journal of Human Rights, Journal of Civil Society, and Conflict, Security & Development. She serves on the boards of the Rahela Trust for Afghan Women’s Education, Women for Peace and Participation, and as an expert member of the Uplift Afghanistan Fund.