Will Plowright
University of British Columbia
Canada

Will Plowright is currently completing a PhD in Political Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. He is also a Liu scholar at the Liu Institute for Global Affairs at UBC, and a Consultant with the Child Soldiers Initiative. Will's area of speciality is the politics of insurgency and the negotiation of humanitarian access in on-going conflict zones, with a secondary specialization on the use of child soldiers and other aspects of international humanitarian law. He has completed research with armed groups in a number of ongoing conflict zones, including work and interviews in Uganda with the Lord's Resistance Army; in Syria with the Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda, and the Free Syrian Army; as well as others in Palestine, Haiti, South Sudan, and Myanmar. Additionally, Will has 8 years of experience in various aspects of humanitarian delivery in conflict and disaster zones across Asia, Africa, and the Americas, in areas including human resource management and civil-military liaison.