Victoria Cochrane is Head of the Sub-Saharan Africa Unit. Victoria has practiced as a Barrister and Solicitor at the independent bar and as an Assistant Crown Counsel in the Crown Law office. In 2010, she worked as a lawyer assisting the Parquet General within the Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit, Rwanda. Her areas of focus have included: human rights, refugee and criminal law, policy making, dealing with the past, and youth peace advocacy. Victoria is a trained mediator and holds an LLB (Hons) and a BA from the University of Otago, and an MA in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford.

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The integration dividend: CEPS programming in practice

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