Naomi Ruth Pendle

Naomi is a Lecture in International Development in the Social and Policy Science Department at the University of Bath. She was formerly an Assistant Professor at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since 2010, she has carried out ethnographic and qualitative research in South Sudan on governance during war and peace. This has included research on patterns of violence, public authority, revenge, peace meetings, armed mobisations, humanitarian protection, Nuer prophets and famine. Her book 'Spiritual Contestations – The Violence of Peace in South Sudan' will be published in 2023.