Marika Theros

Dr Marika Theros is Policy Fellow and Adaptive Strategy and Practice Lead at the Civic Ecosystems & Social Innovation Programme, Conflict and Civicness Research Group, LSE IDEAS and Founder and Director of the Civic Engagement Project (CEP). She focuses on experimentation and application of ecosystem approaches to civic mobilisation, adaptive peacemaking, and justice – working with diverse actors to activate complementary capacities and learning processes that generate shared insight and adaptive responses to conflict, disruption, and repression.

Selected Publications

Academic Papers

‘Knowledge, Power and the Failure of US Peacemaking in Afghanistan, 2018-21,’ International Affairs, forthcoming May 2023

‘Civic Ecosystems and Social Innovation’, under review at Global Policy (with I. Rangelov)

‘Local Agreements: An introduction to a special issue’, Peacebuilding, May 2022 (with M. Kaldor and R. Turkmani)

‘Engendering Civicness in the Syrian Peacemaking Process, Journal of Civil Society, May 2022 (with R. Turkmani)

‘Galkaio, Somalia: Bridging the Border’, Peacebuilding, February 2022 (with N. Majid)

‘The Political Functions of the War on Terror’, Journal of Human Rights, 2019 (with I. Rangelov)

‘Reimagining Civil Society in Conflict-Affected Contexts’, Journal of Civil Society 2019

‘The Logics of Public Authority: Understanding Power, Politics and Security in Afghanistan’, 2018, Stability: International Journal of Security and Development. 7(1), p.1. 201 (with M. Kaldor)

‘Abuse of Power and Conflict Persistence in Afghanistan,’ in Conflict, Security, and Development, 2012 (with I. Rangelov)

Blogposts

‘US Withdrawal will not end the forever wars’, Chatham House, 22 April 2021 (with Sahar Halaimzai)

‘Afghanistan needs a ceasefire now to battle Covid-19, The Atlanticist, 24 April 2020 (with Sahar Halaimzai)

‘The fight for inclusive peace in Afghanistan’, OpenDemocracy, 19 May 2019