Bintu Zahara Sakor is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and University of Oslo (UiO)’s Department of Political Science, Norway. Zahara received her B.A. in International Relations and Quantitative Methods (2016) and MSc in Conflict Resolution (2017) from University of Essex, United Kingdom. Her key research areas include Political and Economic Development of Sub-Saharan Africa, and she is particularly interested in Demography, Youth bulges, Gender and Conflict Dynamics in West Africa (and Sahel region). She has conducted fieldwork in West African countries including Guinea, Liberia, Ghana, Mali and Senegal, and is currently working on her dissertation titled: “Unlocking Sub-Saharan Africa’s Demographic Dividend: Youth bulges, Human Capital and Insecurity”. She is fluent in Norwegian, English, French and Mandinka.