Lauren Van Metre

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Lauren Van Metre (@ResilienceWorks) is Director for Peace, Climate, and Democratic Resilience at the National Democratic Institute. She has worked on major policy initiatives at the Pentagon, the State Department, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Dr. Van Metre has published frequently on issues of peace, fragility and violence, including, most recently, Peacebuilding and Resilience: How Society Responds to Violence, Community Resilience to Violent Extremism in Kenya and Building Gender Equality in Ukraine for the U.S. Institute of Peace, Youth and Radicalization in Mombasa, Kenya:  A Lexicon of Violent Extremist Language on Social Media for USIP’s PeaceTech Lab, and, Ukraine’s Internally Displaced Persons Hold a Key to Peace.

Dr. Van Metre is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, where she writes for Ukraine Alert on the war in the Donbas and its impacts on Ukrainian politics and society. She is an Associate Fellow at the University of Louvain la Neuve in Belgium. And she is an adjunct professor at The Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, where she teaches on strategy and leadership in the Master’s program in International Policy and Practice.

Dr. Van Metre holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies and an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Georgetown University. She is also on LinkedIn.