Biography
Tarila Marclint Ebiede is a Political Scientist. He is Director of the Conflict Research Network West Africa, Abuja, Nigeria, a multi-disciplinary network for peace and conflict studies scholars based in West Africa. He conducts academic and policy research on political violence, intra-state armed conflict, peacebuilding, (in)security in Nigeria. He works on the long-term socio-political consequences of violent conflicts, especially the reintegration of ex-combatants, into people and communities. He has conducted policy research and advisory for the European Union, United Nations Office on Drug and Crime, British Council, Saferworld, United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM). He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from KU Leuven, Belgium.
As a Policy Leader Fellow, his work will focus on the European Union’s (EU) policy and programmatic responses to maritime piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. His project at the EUI will pay specific attention to the extent to which the EU seeks to address/or engage with the root causes of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, especially the security governance of coastal communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. Through this project, he will present policy recommendations on EU’s continuous response to maritime (in)security in the Gulf of Guinea and identify context-specific opportunities for intervention in security governance in the Niger Delta that are coherent with the EU’s values, policies and interests.