Tom Richardson
BA - Conflict Resolution, University of Bradford, Peace Studies Department
Dissertation Title: “United Nations Peacebuilding in the Post-9/11 Security Environment: Challenges and Opportunities.”
Tom (Thomas) Richardson co-ordinates and operationalizes initiatives and projects taken on by the Dean's Office. He is enroled in the S-CAR MS program and hopes to eventually focus on the relationships between human adaptation to climate change and armed violence.
From September 2009 to August 2010 Tom worked as Programme Assistant for Disarmament and Peace, at the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva. Primarily focused on three areas; multilateral disarmament diplomacy through a variety of forums; facilitating NGO involvement with the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development; and building a community of practice of actors engaged with the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) of field workers, operational agencies in Geneva, and the PBC secretariat in New York.
From January to April of 2009 Tom worked as a Research Assistant to the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, a community peacebuilding NGO. Predominantly writing briefing papers, Tom also provided local staff with basic conflict resolution tools and accompanied them on workshops in the field. Additionally, Tom wrote articles for the Daily Mirror, the leading English language newspaper in Sri Lanka.
Between September and December 2008 Tom assisted the East West Management Institute with a project concerning individual economic land rights in Cambodia. The primary out put were four picture books, written in Khmer, on domestic and international land r
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