Comfort Ero
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King's College London
Comfort Ekhuase Ero | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Ero in 2022 | |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | International Crisis Group King's College London |
| Thesis | The evolution of norms in international relations : intervention and the principle of non-intervention in intra-African affairs (1999) |
Comfort Ekhuase Ero CMG is an analyst, policymaker and the president of the think-tank International Crisis Group. Her research has focused on peacekeeping and international relations in conflict-ridden countries. Alongside her work in international diplomacy, Ero is committed to making peace-building more representative and inclusive. She was awarded the 2023 Sir Brian Urquhart Award for Distinguished Service to the United Nations.
Ero was born in England to Nigerian parents.[1] After completing their university degrees in the United Kingdom, Ero's parents could not return to Nigeria because of the Biafra Civil War.[1] Ero moved to Lagos when she was two years old, where she lived until primary school.[1] She lived with her uncle on the campus of the University of Lagos.[1] She has credited her father and uncle with her decision to pursue an academic career.[2] Ero earned her doctorate at the London School of Economics, where she studied interventions in intra-African affairs.[3] Specifically, her focus was on the post-colonial states that emerged in 1957, and how international relations evolved during independence and the Cold war. She found that interventionist and non-interventionist practise represented a balance between dealing with short-term contingencies and long-term security.[3] During her doctorate, she completed an internship at the United Nations Association – UK, which inspired her to work in policymaking and international diplomacy.[2] After earning her doctorate she moved to King's College London as a research associate in the Conflict, Security and Development Group, which was supported by the Department for International Development. She moved to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in 1998.[4] She was a researcher in Freetown during the Sierra Leone Civil War.[5]
