Luke joined the Platform’s Mediterranean Programme as a Researcher in September ’21.

In November ’21 he launched the South East Europe and Black Sea Region Programme, later launching the Central Asia Programme in July ’22. He directs and coordinates research, edits the Programme’s bi-monthly Peace and Security Monitor.

Luke has designed bi-monthly training packages for the Platform team, featuring guest speakers. He has represented the Platform at the OSCE Human Trafficking Conference in Vienna and recently presented a topic warning about the International Humanitarian Law risks of engaging in digital environment at DCN Global’s Conference in Bulgaria; War in the Digital Age: A Case Study on the Impact of Digital Technologies on the War in Ukraine.

Luke is a Programme Officer for a humanitarian organisation and a Human Security Advisor. He is listed as an Emerging Expert on US DC based Forum on the Arms Trade. Luke holds a first-class Masters in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam, and researches and writes on IHL and Transitional Justice.

He has previously worked for the International Criminal Court, Center for the Study of Democracy, the UNV and the British Red Cross.

• • • French Proposal and Identity in North Macedonia: Perspectives from Moderates in Skopje and Ohrid (July 2022)

• • • South East Europe and Black Sea Region Peace and Security Monitor  (June 2022)

• • • Geopolitics and Narrative at the UNSC’s 11 May Bosnia and Herzegovina Meeting (May 2022)

• • • Peace and Security Monitor: South East Europe and Black Sea Region (April 2022)

• • • Kosovo Specialist Chambers: Stakeholder Analysis (1/3) in Peace and Security Monitor: South East Europe and Black Sea Region (April 2022)

• • • Memory and Monuments in Peace and Security Monitor: South East Europe and Black Sea Region (April 2022)

• • • Peace and Security Monitor: South East Europe and Black Sea Region (February 2022)

• • • Russia Negotiations: A Window of Opportunity for a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone in Eastern Europe (2022) (January 2022)

• • • • Peace and Security Monitor: South East Europe and Black Sea Region (December 2021)

     

    • • The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone in South East Europe? in Peace and Security Monitor: South East Europe and Black Sea Region (December 2021)

     

    The Recent Geopolitical Realities Straining a 60-Year-Old Peace Process in Peace and Security Monitor: Challenges in Mediterranean Region (November 2021)

• International Humanitarian Law
• Security Analysis
• Political Narrative Analysis
• Data visualisation
• Legal Writing
• Editing
• Policy Recommendations
• Operation Planning
• Elections

• South East Europe
• Black Sea Region
• Central Asia
• West Africa

• English