Will Jones is a British academic who has been working on Central and Southern Africa, with a specialization in asylum, since 2007. He received his doctorate on refugees in Central Africa, particularly Rwanda, from the University of Oxford, where he later became a Departmental Lecturer in the Politics of Asylum at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. He has also served as an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Excellence in Global Mobility Law and is currently an Associate Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Caste discrimination or persecution, Child soldiers, Coercive population control, Deportees/criminal deportees, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Ex-combatant reintegration, Female genital mutilation/circumcision/FGC, Forced conscription, Healthcare access/health systems capacity, Journalist persecution, Land tenure disputes, LGBTQ, Likelihood of destitution or homelessness, Military/police service, Political persecution, Prison conditions, Religious discrimination or persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocation, Specialized medical services, Sufficiency of protection, Torture, Violence against children/child abuse
I have been writing COI reports for over a decade now. Most prominently I provided a report on conditions in Rwanda on behalf of the appellants to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom as part of the legal challenge to the government's third party relocation scheme in 2024.