Dr. Robert Muggah is the Research Director of the Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. There he oversees research on post-conflict transition and recovery, arms control and armed violence, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform (SSR) in over 30 countries. While working on approaches to mapping human security in Colombia, he is also leading the development of OECD/DAC Guidance for Armed Violence Reduction and serves on several UN expert panels.

In addition to serving as a professional fellow of the US-based Social Science Research Council (SSRC) while at Oxford University, he is also an
Associate of the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN, UK) and the SecDev Group (Canada). He has worked with multilateral and bilateral agencies in twenty countries including Congo, East Timor, Ethiopia, Haiti, Lebanon, Nepal, Philippines, PNG, Russia, Sri Lanka and Sudan.

His work is published in peer-reviewed and policy-relevant journals, academic volumes and the international media. Most recently, he is the author of Relocation Failures: A Short History of Internal Displacement and Resettlement in Sri Lanka (London: Zed Books, 2008), Securing Protection: Assessing the Effectiveness of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in Post-Conflict Contexts (New York: Routledge, 2008) and No Refuge: The Crisis of Refugee Militarization in Africa, (London: Zed Books 2006).