CRP Research Director, is also Director of the (WPF), based since 2011 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy within Tufts Unversity.
The WPF seeks to be a node of intellectual leadership on issues of peacebuilding, basing its work on both rigorous evidence-based research and academic theory. The WPF supports the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel in its work on the Horn of Africa and this provided a conduit for CRP research in that region. Through its links with the Feinstein International Center, the WPF took a lead on issues of displacement and humanitarian action in Somalia and Prof de Waal held executive oversight of CRP research in Somalia, South Sudan and the wider region.