Dr Ed Laws

Ed is a Research Fellow in in the Politics and Governance programme at ODI. He has over 10 years’ experience undertaking policy-oriented research, analysis, and evaluation, with a focus on fragile and conflict-affected settings. Ed has a particular interest in politically smart approaches to aid delivery, flexible and adaptive programming, and the politics of peacebuilding, stabilisation, and the rule of law. He has designed and led research on these topics in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mozambique, Somaliland, Ethiopia, DRC, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Nepal.

Contact Ed (peacerep@ed.ac.uk) for queries related to PeaceRep research on the Invisible Constitutionalism project.