Marika Theros

Marika Theros is a researcher at the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit at the London School of Economics, and a senior fellow at the Institute for State Effectiveness.

The fight for inclusive peace in Afghanistan

In his short life he had developed a clear vision of what peace looked like – from the bottom up, working for the people, and believing in them and their capacity to change things for the better.

By Marika Theros

/ 19 May 2019

The fight for inclusive peace in Afghanistan

Justice for atrocity and economic crimes: can the EU deliver?

With the partial exception of the Holocaust, European states have done little reckoning with their own legacies of abuse inherited from war and repressive rule in Europe and the former colonies.

By Marika Theros, Iavor Rangelov and Nataša Kandić

/ 24 May 2016

Justice for atrocity and economic crimes: can the EU deliver?

With the partial exception of the Holocaust, European states have done little reckoning with their own legacies of abuse inherited from war and repressive rule in Europe and the former colonies.

By Marika Theros, Iavor Rangelov and Nataša Kandić

/ 24 May 2016

Afghanistan: losing the Afghan people

Through in-depth conversations with Afghans in the provinces of Balkh, Baghlan, Herat, Kabul, Kandahar, Khost, and Nangarhar, a better understanding was sought of both the dynamics of violence at local levels and Afghan, not international, aspirations for the future of their country

By Marika Theros and Nir Rosen

/ 16 Jan 2011

Secure Afghanistan

During the election campaign, Barack Obama made much of the situation in Afghanistan. Indeed he argued (rather disappointingly since the war in Iraq should be regarded as a terrible mistake

By Mary Kaldor and Marika Theros

/ 11 Dec 2008

Pentagon goes back to school

While the American campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan have changed the public views about how and when America goes to war, a serious and underreported debate is being waged within

By Marika Theros

/ 1 Oct 2008