Ben Rawlence

Ben Rawlence (born 1974 ) is a British human rights activist.

Life

Ben Rawlence studied history at the School of Oriental and African Studies and has a BA in the East African language Swahili . He received an MA in International Politics from the University of Chicago . Rawlence worked in the Africa division of Human Rights Watch at various locations from 2006 to 2013 . He published research reports on the human rights situation in the Horn of Africa , Kenya , Nigeria , Uganda and Zanzibar . Rawlence visited the refugee camp in Dadaab several timesand published a book report on his interviews and background research. He worked as an advisor for the Civic United Front party in Tanzania and for the Liberal Democrats in the British Parliament. Rawlence also writes for The Guardian and the London Review of Books .

Rawlence lives in Wales in the Black Mountains .

2017: Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Nonfiction Runner-up) for City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

with Leslie Lefkow: "One hundred ways of putting pressure". Violations of freedom of expression and association in Ethiopia. Human Rights Watch, New York NY 2010, ISBN 1-56432-610-1
Radio Congo: signals of hope from Africa's deadliest war . London: OneWorld, 2013
City of thorns: nine lives in the world's largest refugee camp . New York: Picador, 2016
- City of the Lost: Living in the largest refugee camp in the world . Translation from English by Bettina Münch and Kathrin Razum. Zurich: Nagel & Kimche, 2016

Lukas Latz: Against the rest of the world . Interview. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 23, 2016, p. 12

Ben Rawlence , at Hanser's

personal data
SURNAME	Rawlence, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	1974