Jacqui Cho

Jacqui Cho joined swisspeace in April 2021 as a PhD candidate with the Mediation program. She is part of the research project International Peacemaking in Pursuit of a "Good Peace": Integration or Separation?, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Besides, she supports the Mediation team's operational activities.

Jacqui holds an MPhil in African Studies and a BA in Politics and International Relations (Human, Social and Political Sciences) from the University of Cambridge.

Before joining swisspeace, Jacqui worked with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in East Africa, namely in Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya. Previously, she interned with the UN Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Jacqui has also worked as a research assistant for the project "Post-Conflict Political Parties", funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme and the Research Council of Norway, studying rebel-to-party transformations in Sri Lanka and East Timor, as well as supporting knowledge sharing among researchers and practitioners through the Politics After War research network. In 2022, she received the Kenneth E. Boulding Award for a graduate student research paper from the International Studies Association (ISA).