Kate Lonergan

Keywords

• peacebuilding
• genocide studies
• truth telling and reconciliation
• customary justice and reconciliation
• reconciliation
• atrocity prevention

Biography

Kate Lonergan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre at Uppsala University. Her research focuses on reconciliation and peacebuilding after mass violence and atrocities. Kate has PhD and a Master’s degree from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, where she was a Rotary Peace Fellow, and a Bachelor’s Degree from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Kate has previously worked with the United States Institute of Peace on reconciliation and atrocity prevention, with the World Bank on justice and development issues, and conducted research on community reintegration of ex-combatants in northern Uganda. She has also worked with community conflict resolution and restorative justice initiatives in the Washington, DC area.