Erol Yayboke

Erol Yayboke is a director of the Project on Fragility and Mobility and senior fellow with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). His specific research interests include migration and forced displacement, violent conflict and global fragility, conflict-aware stabilization, violent extremism, climate change, civil-military cooperation, and disruptive technologies. Previously, he was a senior fellow and deputy director with the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development. Prior to CSIS, Mr. Yayboke served on the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign as well as the Evidence for Policy Design team at the Center for International Development at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Yayboke has long-term field experience working for organizations (Global Communities, Save the Children, and AECOM International Development) in Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan, and the Somali Region of Ethiopia, serving in various senior management roles.
Mr. Yayboke teaches a graduate level course on global fragility and resilience at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and is a member of the board of directors for the Andi Leadership Institute for Young Women, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit focused on developing the next generation of women peacebuilders. He holds an M.P.A. from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a B.B.A. in international business, also from the University of Texas at Austin. He is fluent in Turkish and Spanish.
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Erol Yayboke, Director of Fragility and Mobility at CSIS joins me at The Dignitary to explain what it's like to work for a think tank.
Erol Yayboke in 80 Proof Politics — May 3, 2023
AI Can Tell Us How Russians Feel About the War. Putin Won’t Like the Results.
Erol Yayboke and Abigail Edwards in Politico — February 25, 2023
Ukrainian refugees and their U.S. sponsors settle in for the long haul
Erol Yayboke in Yahoo News — February 23, 2023
Ukrainian refugees wait in limbo as Putin’s war drags on
Erol Yayboke in Yahoo News — February 22, 2023
How to help Turkey and Syria earthquake victims
Erol Yayboke in Yahoo News — February 9, 2023
What's ahead for quake-stricken Turkey and Syria?
Erol Yayboke in The Week — February 9, 2023
Earthquake’s tragic aftermath puts spotlight on Turkey’s leader
Erol Yayboke in The Washington Post — February 8, 2023
იაიბოკე: კრემლი უკრაინელ ბავშვებს რუსეთში ფულის სანაცვლოდ აშვილებს
Erol Yayboke in Voice of America — November 15, 2022
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Public Safety in Haiti: Now and Tomorrow
Event by Erol Yayboke , Ambassador Frederick Barton , Johnny Celestin , Georges A. Fauriol , William O'Neill , Ambassador Susan Page , and Dr. Peterson Thosiac — June 8, 2023
Forgotten Frontlines: Aruba, Curaçao, and the Venezuelan Displacement Crisis
Commentary by Erol Yayboke and Ángeles Zúñiga — May 3, 2023
Conflict Prevention, Climate Change, and Why Ghana Matters Now
Brief by Anastasia Strouboulis , Erol Yayboke , and Abigail Edwards — March 22, 2023
Iraq 20 Years After the Invasion: Humanitarian, Displacement, and Climate Change Challenges
Commentary by Nicolas Jude Larnerd , Erol Yayboke , and Giorgi Gigauri — March 20, 2023
Technology as a Driver of Gender Equality and Peace
Commentary by Abigail Edwards , Alexis Day , and Erol Yayboke — March 8, 2023
The Expanding Use of Technology to Manage Migration
Report by Marti Flacks , Erol Yayboke , Lauren Burke , and Anastasia Strouboulis — March 6, 2023
The State of Statelessness in Ukraine
Critical Questions by Abigail Edwards , Ángeles Zúñiga , and Erol Yayboke — March 1, 2023
Addressing Fragility in Libya Means Protecting Migrant Rights
Commentary by Lauren Burke and Erol Yayboke — February 27, 2023
Promise and Peril: Migration Management Technologies in West Africa and Central America
Event by Erol Yayboke , Marti Flacks , William Brownfield , Badara Ndiaye , Amal El Ouassif , Caterina Rodelli , Ángela Alarcón , and Oscar Chacón — February 22, 2023
Shattered Relief: A 7.8-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Turkey and Syria
Critical Questions by Erol Yayboke — February 7, 2023