Amanda Coffie
| Email: | mandycoffie@gmail.com |
Amanda Coffie is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science. Her main area of research is forced migration situations in developing countries. This includes asylum policies and programsof host countries and humanitarian agencies as well as post-conflict reconstruction of the countries of origin of refugees. Amanda’s current research examines the potential contribution of returning refugees to peace building through a comparative study of Liberian refugees in Ghana and Guinea. The study aims to present a better understanding of how the experiences of exile and the treatment of returnees by peace building institutions in the country of origin influence the ability of refugees to contribute to the process of post-conflict reconstruction. Amanda holds that research in this area could lead to improved support for incorporating the question of refugees into peace building programming by refugee hosting and home countries, humanitarian agencies and the refugees.