Dr. Maureen Moriarty

Senior Fellow, Duke Center for International Development and Senior Associate in Land and Security, CDA Collaborative Learning

Maureen Moriarty PH.D has 27 years of experience working at the Triple Nexus of the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding sectors. She is a Senior Fellow at the Duke University Center for International Development and the Duke/UNC Rotary Peace Program, where she is founder of the Peace Innovations Lab, to develop innovations to mitigate conflict and fragility. Specializations include research and practice in land and forest governance and transnational organized crime related to human, timber and wildlife trafficking-all at the nexus of money laundering and terrorist financing. She has worked extensively in the private sector, collaborating with multinational businesses and has 20 years of monitoring and evaluation experience. Her most recent work has included two investigative research efforts connecting illicit timber trafficking and terrorist financing and examining the nexus between environmental degradation and forced labor/human trafficking in Mozambique. She currently holds certifications in AML/CFT from ACAMS and DFI in South Africa.

Publications
  • Darwish, S., Moriarty, M., & Allen, R. (2025). “Conflict Sensitivity in the Anthropocene: Centering the Do No Harm Approach in Socio-Natural Systems Thinking, Resilience and Vulnerability Frameworks for Effective Environmental Peacebuilding Action. In S. Schmeidel, A. Ware, & C. Alberti, Conflict Sensitivity in Development, Humanitarian and Peacebuilding Practice. London: Routledge Press.
  • Bloom, A., & Moriarty, M. (2024). Shipping the Forest. Washington, DC: Environmental Investigation Agency.
  • Malesky, E., & Moriarty, M. (2023). Anti-Corruption Learning Activity and Original Research: A Sectoral Approach. Washington, DC: USAID.
  • Bloom, A& Moriarty, M (2024). Shipping the Forest: Timber and Terrorist Financing. Washington, DC: Environmental Investigation Agency.
  • Moriarty, M. (2023, July). Measures to Prevent the Misuse of Funds intended for Peacebuilding: Financial corruption and Illicit Financial Flows. `A Propos: Financing Peace: What Are the Priorities?
  • Moriarty, M., & Graham, J. (2022, Spring). Conflict Sensitivity in Land Governance: The Do No Harm Framework and Other Tools for Practitioners in Land and Natural Resource Activities. Cambridge, MA, USA: Tetra Tech and CDA Collaborative Learning.
  • Moriarty, M & Valoi, E. (2020). The Nexus Between Human Trafficking Risk and Forest and Environmental Degradation: The Case of Illicit Trafficking in Pterocarpus Tinctorius in Tete Province.Amherst: Verité.
  • Moriarty, M & Valoi, E. (2020). The Nexus Between Human Trafficking Risk and Forest and Environmental Degradation: The Case of Road Construction in Niassa Province. Amherst: Verité.
  • Kepes, Q; Arbib,A; Moriarty, M.( 2020). Exploring Intersections of Trafficking in Persons: Vulnerability and Environmental Degradation in Forestry and Adjacent Sectors: Case Studies in Mexico, Myanmar, and Mozambique. Amherst: Verité.

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