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Dyan Mazurana

Director, Gender, Youth and Community, Feinstein International Famine Center

Education

BFA and MA University of Wyoming;
MA and PhD in Women’s studies, Clark University

Professional Activities

Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (2001, 2002, 2006); and Unicef (2006); 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 (2005-2006); ICRC (2005); World Bank (2005), Government of Denmark (2005), and Canadian International Development Agency (2004-2006).

Courses

Fall 2009

• DHP D231 - Human Rights Protection of Civilians during Situations of Armed Conflict
• DHP D232 - Gender, Culture and Conflict in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

Research Interests

Civilian populations' experiences of armed conflict; women's human rights; war-affected children; armed conflict; human security; protection; ex-combatants; and peacekeeping.

Books

• After the Taliban: Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan (co-author) (2006);
• Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping (co-editor) (2005);
• Where are the Girls? Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique: Their Lives During and After War (co-author) (2004).
• Documenting Women's Rights Violations in Armed Conflict Situations (co-author) (2001).
• Women and Peacebuilding (co-author). (1999)

Articles and Chapters in Books

• “War Slavery: The Role of Children and Youth in Fighting Forces in Sustaining Armed Conflicts and War Economies in Africa,” (co-author) Gender, Violent Conflict, and Development (2006);
• “Humanitarian Governance: Coordination and Policy Issues in Complex Political Emergencies,” (co-author) Lancet (2004);
• “"International Peacekeeping Operations: To Neglect Gender is to Risk Peacekeeping Failure." The Post-war Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping - Bosnia and the Netherlands. (2002)
• “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)