Yvonne Kemper

Yvonne Kemper is an Officer with the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict and in charge of all aspects of preparing the Watchlist’s country reports. In her prior post as a Child Protection Advisor in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the DR Congo (MONUC), she was in charge of monitoring, reporting and denouncing the most grave human rights violations against children in North Katanga. Having worked as a consultant on children and youth in conflict contexts, she has a broad experience in devising guidelines, trainings and research studies for international organizations and research institutes, including co-authoring a study on the EU’s approach to children and armed conflict for the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). She has also worked or interned at various international organizations, parliaments and research institutes, including the European Parliament, the German Bundestag, the U.S. Embassy, the UNHCR and the World Bank. She holds a Master’s degree, focusing on conflict management, humanitarian concerns and human rights, from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Master’s degree on international peace and conflict studies from the Institute from the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. Yvonne is German-American and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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