Contributions to Policy Dialogues

(2024) McFee, E., Röders, J. Rimjhim A., .van den Aakster, E. and Sudachek, D. “Between the Frontline and the Home Front: Reintegration, Resilience, and Participation Strategies for Ukraine’s Veterans,” Corioli Institute, Project Report.

(2024) McFee, E., “Understanding of Vulnerability and Resilience Dynamics: Climate Change and its Impact on Women,” in WDO’s (editors) Women and Climate Change: The Status of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in OIC Member States,” Women Development"

(2023) McFee, E., Christensen, C., and Magyar, L. “Afghan Allies Out of War: Addressing the Needs of the Afghan Special Operations Forces Community and their Families in the United States,” Trust After Betrayal, Policy Paper.

(2023) McFee, E., “Policy Paper: Developing relevant and coherent program and policy initiatives using the Climate Change, Conflict, And Migration Nexus Analytic Framework in the MENA region,” International Organization for Migration (IOM)–Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa.

October 2022 analysis of the economic and security implications of the Colombia-Venezuela border reopening. 

September 2022 Panel discussion on "Understanding resistance: Examining the growth of irregular warfare in international security" hosted by the Pritzker Military Museum & Library. 

December 2021 analysis of opportunities for international supports to the ailing Colombian Peace Process resulting from the US delisting the FARC as a terrorist group. 

October 2021 critique of the 14,000 troop surge (CENOR) to the Colombia-Venezuela border

January 2020 call for extending the UN Peace Verification Mission and improving social leader and reincorporating FARC protections. 

November, 2019 reflections on the political climate in Colombia.

Academic Committee coordinator and contributing author to the "First Global Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Summit: Global DDR Challenges and Techniques, South-South Cooperation, and Rural and Territorial Reintegration" (2013) (Spanish)

Featured guest, along with Sean Kingsland, on the War On the Rocks   

Podcast, discussing Securing Visas for Afghan National Army Special Operations Command. (October 2024) 

Panelist on the Wisdom of Crowds podcast, discussing Forgiveness in Times of Turmoil at the Aspen Ideas Festival (June 2024).

Featured guest on the Irregular Warfare podcast, discussing Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants. (March 2024).

Featured guest on the Root of Conflict podcast, produced by the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago. (December 2022).

Long-form interview with Dr. Kimberly Theidon on LAUD - Bogotá on gender and reintegration in Colombia. (Spanish)

Accompanying speech on interpersonal trust among conflict-affected populations for the IPAZUD international DDR Forum. (Spanish) 

Introduced the "Former Belligerent Actor Integrated Assessment Framework" at the Future of War Conference, which convened academics and defense and security experts in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (October 2022).

Panelist on the "Understanding Resistance: Examining the Growth of Irregular Warfare in National Security," along with two other Irregular Warfare Initiative Fellows and produced by the Pritzker Military Museum and Library (September 2022). 

Selected as an Irregular Warfare Initiative Fellow (2022 Cohort) to help bridge the academic, policy, and practitioner arenas in the field of IW.

Public talk with Rodeemos el Diálogo in Bogotá on the topic of trust-building among conflict affected populations in Colombia. (Spanish)

Conversation with university students and policy-makers on the possibilities for reconciliation and state-society relations in Colombia with Rodeemos el Diálogo in London.

Organizer and conference lead for the inaugural Out of War: Global Insights on Reintegration to Support Strategies for Ukraine's Frontline Returnees in London (October 2023). 

Workshop organizer for the Violence, Peace, and Security Network Virtual Workshop broadcasted from Bogotà, Colombia 

(June 2022).

Workshop organizer for the Knowledge Exchange: An Initiative of the Violence, Peace, and Security Network in El Salvador (June 2022) (Spanish). 

Workshop organizer for the Violence, Peace, and Security (VSP) Network: Trust and Peacebuilding Round Table Discussion Series 

(June 2022). 

Workshop organizer for (Re)building Trust and Democracy: Violence, Security and Peace in Latin America in Bogotà, Colombia (Spanish) (May 2022). 

Keynote speaker at the 6th International Law Conference, hosted by the Universidad de Simon Bolívar in Cúcuta, Colombia: "Implementation of the Peace Accord in Colombia: Opportunities and challenges from the perspective of an international cooperation organization" (2017) (Spanish)