Position: Mary Frances Berry Senior Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law

Links: Website

Expertise Areas: Human Rights, Peace Building, International Law.

Contact: ramatoulie.jallow@appc.upenn.edu

Bio:

Ramatoulie Isatou Jallow (L.L.M Graduate in National Security Law, Georgetown, 2023 and in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa University of Pretoria, Centre for Human Rights, 2021) is a peace practitioner and attorney from Botswana, the Gambia, and the United States specializing in human rights, democratization, conflict prevention and peacebuilding. In her previous professional experiences, she worked for the African Union, the United States Institute for Peace, and the Georgetown Center for National Security. She is also the founder of an initiative titled “Peace by Peace,” which is dedicated to conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and creating a sustainable peace culture through curated dialogues, community education, as well as advocacy in Botswana.

Her publications include Covid-19 and Intrastate Armed Conflicts in Africa, Beyond the Outbreak: Creating a Sustainable Peace Culture in Botswana and Intergenerational Peacebuilding Among Women: Leveraging the Power of Collaboration, which she co-authored.

Currently, Ramatoulie is a Mary Frances Berry Senior Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law which is affiliated with the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Here, she is leading research on the U.S response to military coups in the Sahel and West African region and civic education in the military. She is conducting research around indefinite detention and the closure of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility.