Kaitlin Lavinder
Reporter, The Cipher Brief
Kaitlin Lavinder is a national security reporter at The Cipher Brief. Previously, she worked as a TV news producer at NewsChannel 8 in Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for the morning broadcasts and POLITICO international affairs segments. She also spent time at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin working in the Press Section. Kaitlin received her M.A. in International Economics and European Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and her BA in Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media from Temple University.
There has been a downward trend in large-scale warfare on the African continent since the number of wars peaked in the mid 1990s. However, new forms of violence are now replacing mass warfare in many [...] More
