Sandra Tombe

Sandra Tombe
Director

Dr. Sandra Tombe is a Visiting Scholar at George Mason University’s Center for Peacemaking Practice, where she conducts research on migration and displacement and on artificial intelligence in the Global South. A scholar-practitioner, Sandra has over nine years of experience in academia, policymaker engagement, and peacebuilding practice. She recently served as Research Program Officer at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), where she led and managed research projects and supported thematic and regional teams on research design, research methodology and ethics, monitoring and evaluation, project design, and learning. At USIP, she researched and published on multilateral regional organizations and managed a multi-stakeholder series exploring the role of the United States and United Nations in contemporary peacemaking. Sandra holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Resolution from George Mason University. Her dissertation examined the transnational mobilization of Cameroonian and South Sudanese diasporas by non-state actors during conflict. Trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods, Sandra has published her research on civil war and migration in peer reviewed journals and has taught courses on conflict resolution, research methods in international affairs, and French at George Washington University, George Mason University, and the University of Louisville.