Professor Sabrina Karim to speak at UMass on Gender and Security

This October, the Human Security Lab will be hosting Professor Sabrina Karim  of the Cornell University Department of Governments. Professor Karim’s is an expert in peace and conflict studies and especially state building in the aftermath of civil war, security assistance to post-conflict states, gender reforms in peacekeeping and domestic security, and the relationship between gender and violence. In addition to all of this she also runs Cornell’s Gender and the Security Sector Lab which studies the role of gender in security forces, and particularly its outcome on factors such as use of force, abuse of power, and conflict resolution. Professor Karim, alongside Kyle Beardsley, is also the co-author of Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping which investigates the impact of gender equality in peacekeeping operations on promoting gender equality in post-conflict states.

The Human Security Lab’s Women, Peace and Security Cluster is excited to be hosting Professor Karim for a virtual event that will be open to the public in October of 2021!