Women, Peace and Security
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 advocated a world where women’s role in peace, violence and security is comprehensively accounted for, leveraged and valued. But the United Nations has fallen short in these goals. UMass researchers lead the world in researching how to improve implementation of UNSC Resolution 1325, from how to reintegrate female ISIS fighters to protecting children born of war rape. This initiative will bring together faculty and graduate students researching women’s experiences during and contributions to war, women in peace processes, conflict-related sexual violence against men, and other topics of gender and violent conflict.
Catie Fowler
Catie Fowler researches policy initiatives intended to increase the number of women in armed conflict. She is particularly interested in women extremists, women’s contributions to violence during armed conflict, and the relationship between gender and war law compliance. Prior to coming to UMass, worked in Women, Peace and Security policy and as a volunteer for the US Peace Corps in Rwanda.
Jaeye Baek
Jaeye Baek’s scholarship focuses on the politics of war crimes tribunals on wartime sexual and gender-based crimes.
She is particularly interested in the decision-making mechanism of the tribunals and its effects on the international norms against such crimes. Prior to coming to UMass, Jaeye worked on the
politics of the Tokyo trials regarding Japanese military’s sexual slavery.
Imtashal Tariq
Imtashal Tariq researches sexual violence, gender, peacekeeping and the protection of civilians. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the quality and type of troops deployed to peacekeeping missions and the ability of peacekeeping missions to reduce conflict-related sexual violence against civilians.
Jenna Norosky
Jenna Norosky’s research focuses on political violence, human security, and international war law.
They are particularly interested in sexual violence against men in armed conflicts,
and the way race shapes disparate attention to civil wars
in Syria, Afghanistan, Bosnia and the Congo.