Marc Sommers
Consultant
Marc Sommers has served as an international evaluator for CMPartners and the Conflict Management Group since 1999, conducting 16 field evaluations in three post-conflict countries (Rwanda, Burundi and Timor-Leste). He is also an Associate Research Professor of Humanitarian Studies with the Institute of Human Security at the Fletcher School, Tufts University and a Research Fellow with Boston University's African Studies Center.
Marc has also carried out research and assessment work in 20 countries on youth, education, child soldiers, urbanization, forced migration, human rights, and coordination issues in war and post-war contexts. He has consulted for policy institutes and numerous United Nations, non-government, and donor agencies, and has received research support from the Ford, Guggenheim, Mellon and Rotary foundations. Marc is completing his 7th book, entitled "Youth in Waithood: Masculinity, Urbanization and Governance in Rwanda", and will write his 8th (on popular culture, youth and civil war in Sierra Leone) as a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace beginning in October 2009. Marc's book, Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania, received the 2003 Margaret Mead Award.
Marc received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Boston University in 1994, with an emphasis on development, social and cultural anthropology. He is fluent in Swahili and proficient in Spanish and French.
