Kato Van Broeckhoven

Senior Researcher Managing Exits from Armed Conflict

kato.vanbroeckhoven@un.org

Kato Van Broeckhoven is a Senior Researcher with the Managing Exits from Armed Conflict (MEAC) initiative at UNIDIR.

Her research focuses on conflict prevention and resolution, disarmament, demobilization, disengagement, and reintegration.

She holds master’s degrees in linguistics and communications, as well as conflict studies, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University. She was previously a Senior Project Manager at UNU-CPR where she worked on children and extreme violence; has worked on city-level programming aimed at preventing recruitment by armed groups; and worked as a consultant for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the World Bank’s Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development. She co-edited Cradled by Conflict: Child Involvement with Armed Groups in Contemporary Conflict with Dr Siobhan O’Neil, and has contributed extensively to a series of publications by the MEAC initiative.

Kato speaks English, Dutch, French and Spanish.

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Publications by this author

Managing Exits from Armed Conflict

Preventing Recruitment and Ensuring Effective Reintegration Efforts: Evidence from Across the Lake Chad Basin to Inform Policy and Practice

1 November 2022

Managing Exits from Armed Conflict

Community Security Actors and the Prospects for Demobilization in the North East of Nigeria (Findings Report 18)

31 October 2022

Managing Exits from Armed Conflict

Community Leaders’ Receptivity to Returning Former Boko Haram Associates: Implications for Peacebuilding (Findings Report 15)

3 July 2022

Managing Exits from Armed Conflict

Kato Van Broeckhoven

Publications by this author

Picturing Conflict: Child Perspectives From Their Time With Boko Haram and Their Exit Journeys

Banditry Violence in Nigeria’s North West: Insights from Affected Communities (Findings Report 36)

Child Exits from Armed Groups in the Lake Chad Basin (Findings Report 31)

The Prospects for Remote Assessment: A Comparison of Phone vs In-Person Interviews in Nigeria (Findings Report 29)

Child Recruitment in the Lake Chad Basin (Findings Report 22)

Preventing Recruitment and Ensuring Effective Reintegration Efforts: Evidence from Across the Lake Chad Basin to Inform Policy and Practice

Community Security Actors and the Prospects for Demobilization in the North East of Nigeria (Findings Report 18)

Community Leaders’ Receptivity to Returning Former Boko Haram Associates: Implications for Peacebuilding (Findings Report 15)

Current Dynamics of Child Recruitment in Colombia (Findings Report 14)

The Relationship Between Victimization and Receptivity to Returning Boko Haram Associates (Findings Report 13)

Criminal and Transitional Justice Preferences for Former Boko Haram Associates (Findings Report 12)

Social, Economic, and Civic Reintegration of Former Boko Haram Affiliates (Findings Report 10)

Community Acceptance of Former Boko Haram Affiliates (Findings Report 7)

Volunteer Security Outfits in North East Nigeria (Findings Report 5)

Social and Economic Life in and Around Maiduguri (Findings Report 4)

Data Points on Gender Norms and Sexism in and Around Maiduguri (Findings Report 3)