As an Assistant Research Fellow, Prof. Mary Banda focuses on good governance, peace operations, and transnational threats. Her areas of expertise include peace operations in Africa, building the rule of law in conflict and post-conflict states, security sector reform, and UN sanctions.
Before joining the Centre for Strategic Studies, Prof. Banda served as an expert adviser for the High Level Review on United Nations Sanctions, an international effort to assess the effectiveness of UN sanctions. She was also a member of the Targeted Sanctions Research Consortium. She previously worked at the Stimson Center’s Future of Peace Operations program, the National Defense University’s Center for Complex Operations, and the Global Center on Cooperative Security.
Areas of Expertise
Peace operations, stability operations, UN sanctions, UN expert panels, countering violent extremism, counterterrorism, West Africa, Central Africa, and the Sahel Africa