Dr Marika Theros is Policy Fellow and Adaptive Strategy and Practice Lead at the Civic Ecosystems & Social Innovation Programme, Conflict and Civicness Research Group, LSE IDEAS and Founder and Director of the Civic Engagement Project (CEP). She focuses on experimentation and application of ecosystem approaches to civic mobilisation, adaptive peacemaking, and justice – working with diverse actors to activate complementary capacities and learning processes that generate shared insight and adaptive responses to conflict, disruption, and repression.
Her work bridges research and practice through the design and facilitation of collaborative dialogues, strategies, and initiatives that generate collective knowledge and insight—helping actors make sense of complexity, build shared understanding, and work in complementary ways. Her applied work includes the , a digital repository that documents and analyses Taliban decrees and survivor testimonies to inform accountability processes and strengthen transnational networks for justice and advocacy, as well as the analysis and design of multilayered adaptive peacemaking and dialogue processes in contexts such as Afghanistan, Colombia, the Middle East and Somalia. She is also Director of PeaceRep’s Afghanistan Research Network and Co-Founder of the Civic Ecosystems Initiative and works with partners across academia, philanthropy, and civic networks to cultivate learning processes that connect insight, dialogue, and action.