Samantha Holmes
Samantha Holmes
Samantha Holmes is a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) and York Law School. She is also a member of the Beyond Compliance Consortium’s research programme “Building Evidence on Promoting Restraint by Armed Actors.” Her ongoing research explores the impacts of war on mental wellbeing and the vulnerabilities of children in war. She has also collaborated with Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict to research grave violations against children. Samantha holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice from the University of York, and an LLB from Queen Mary University of London. Before commencing her research into law and armed conflict, she built her early career in human rights law practice for non-governmental organisations in Southeast Asia, specialising in civil and political rights, legal analysis, UN advocacy, and the Cambodian context.
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