Education

• MA, Women's Studies, Clark University
• PhD, Women's Studies, Clark University
• BFA, University of Wyoming
• MA, University of Wyoming

Professional Activities

• Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (2001, 2002, 2006), Unicef (2006), and UNDP (2005, 2006)
• Research Director (2005-present), Director of Youth and Community Program (2004-2005), and Senior Research Fellow (2003-2004), Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
• Visiting Scholar (2003-2004) and Peace and International Security Fellow (2001-2002), Women and Public Policy Program, JF Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Consultant for The Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, Berlin (2006); North-South Institute, Ottawa (2005-06); ICRC (2005); World Bank (2005), Government of Denmark (2005), and Canadian International Development Agency (2004-06)

Research Interests

• Civilian populations' experiences of armed conflict
• Women's human rights
• War-affected children
• Armed conflict
• Human security
• Protection
• Ex-combatants
• Peacekeeping

ARTICLES
• Mazurana, Dyan, Sue Lautze, Jennifer Leaning, Angela Raven-Roberts and Randolph Kent. "Assistance, Protection, and Governance Networks in Complex Emergencies." Lancet 364, no. 9451 (2004).
• "Humanitarian Governance: Coordination and Policy Issues in Complex Political Emergencies,” (co-author) Lancet (2004).
• "Do Women Matter in Peacekeeping? Women in Police, Military, and Civilian Peacekeeping Components." Canadian Woman Studies Journal. (March 2003)
• "Girls in Fighting Forces and Groups: Their Recruitment, Participation, Demobilization, and Reintegration." (co-author) Peace & Conflict 8, 2, 2002
• "Child Soldiers: What About the Girls?" (co-author) The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, September/October. 2001
• "A Hostile Reception: Women's Realities of Civil Political Discourses in Democracies." (co-author) Peace & Conflict, 6, 4, 325-332. (2000)

BOOKS
• Mazurana, Dyan, Nojumi, Neamattolah and Stites, Elizabeth . After the Taliban: Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan. Oxford & Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
• Mazurana, Dyan (contributing author). Report of the Secretary-General on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Violence against the Girl Child. United Nations, 2007.
• Mazurana, Dyan, Angela Raven-Roberts and Jane Parpart (eds.) Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping. Oxford & Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
• Mazurana, Dyan and Susan McKay. Where are the Girls?: Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierre Leone and Mozambique: Their Lives During and After War. Rights & Democracy, 2004.
• Mazurana, Dyan (contributing author). Report of the Secretary-General on Women, Peace and Security to the United Nations Security Council. New York: United Nations UN document S/2002/1154, 2002.
• Mazurana, Dyan. Women, Peace and Security: Study of the United Nations Secretary-General as Pursuant Security Council Resolution 1325. New York: United Nations, 2002.
• Callamard, Agnes, ed. Documenting Women's Rights Violations in Armed Conflict Situations. London and Montreal: Amnesty International, United Kingdom and International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2001.
• Women and Peacebuilding (co-author). (1999)

BOOK CHAPTERS
• Mazurana, Dyan and Khristopher Carlson. "War Slavery: The Role of Children and Youth in Fighting Forces in Sustaining Armed Conflicts and War Economies in Africa." In Gender, Violent Conflict, and Development, Duke University Press, 2006.
• Mazurana, Dyan. "Combatants & Captives: Girls and Young Women in Sierra LeoneÆs Fighting Forces." In Femmes et Conflits ArmTs. RTalitTs, Letons et Avancement des Politiques, Laval University Press: Quebec, 2005.
• Mazurana, Dyan, Angela Raven-Roberts and Jane Parpart. "Gender and the Causes and Consequences of Armed Conflict." In Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping, Oxford & Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
• Mazurana, Dyan, Angela Raven-Roberts, Jane Parpart and Sue Lautze. "Introduction: Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping." In Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping, Oxford & Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
• Mazurana, Dyan, Barbara Burton, Nouray Ibryamova, Ranjana Khanna and Lily Mendoza. "Cartographies of Scholarship: The Ends of Nation-states, Cold Wars and International Study." In Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women, New York: The Feminist Press, 2002.
• Mazurana, Dyan, Angela Raven-Roberts and Anika Hilding-Norberg. "Gender Perspectives in Effective Peace Operations." In Challenges of Peacekeeping & Peace Support: Into the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Mazurana, Dyan, Angela Raven-Roberts and Annika Hilding-Norberg. "Integrating the Human Rights Perspective." In Challenges of Peacekeeping & Peace Support: Into the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Mazurana, Dyan, Cynthia Cockburn and Dubravka Zarkov. "International Peacekeeping Operations: To Neglect Gender is to Risk Peacekeeping Failure." In The Post-war Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping - Bosnia and the Netherlands, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2002.
• Mazurana, Dyan and Susan McKay. "Women as Peacebuilders: Gendering Peacebuilding." In Peace, Conflict & Violence, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2001.
• Mazurana, Dyan and Susan McKay. "Women, Girls, and Structural Violence: A Global Analysis." In Peace, Conflict & Violence, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2001.