K. Raymond Da-boi is a Cultural Anthropology doctoral researcher at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with academic specialization in peace and conflict studies, humanitarian and refugee studies, and post-conflict reconstruction. His research focuses on peacebuilding, regional security, displacement, borderlands, conflict resolution, and the political economy of civil wars in West Africa, particularly within the Mano River Basin. He has extensive teaching, mediation, and consultancy experience with institutions including UNESCO, UNICEF, USAID, UNDP, and Cuttington University, and has contributed widely to scholarship on conflict, governance, regional integration, and peace education

• Informal Economies and Borderland Studies
• Political Economy of Placemaking from Below
• Market Women Networks and Gendered Economies
• Cross-Border Trade and Informal Networks
• Everyday Survival, Reciprocity, and Moral Economies
• Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Community Lifemaking
• Ethnography of Borders and Border Communities
• Informality, Governance, and Local Institutions
• Microfinance, Rotating Savings, and Social Lending Practices
• Social Reproduction and Collective Agency