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Phoebe Donnelly Publishes Dissertation on Forced Marriage in Armed Groups wins Peter Ackerman Award

Phoebe won the Peter Ackerman Award for the outstanding doctoral dissertation at The Fletcher School that demonstrates scholarly merit, originality, and contribution to the field and society. In her dissertation, “Wedded to Warfare: Forced Marriage in Rebel Groups,” Phoebe creates a theory of forced marriage based on two rebel groups al-Shabaab (in Somalia and Kenya) and the Lord’s Resistance Army (in Uganda).