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Professor Jacqui True FASSA FAIIA
Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW)Dr Jacqui True FASSA FAIIA is Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW) and Professor of International Relations at Monash University. She is a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and Editor of the European Journal of International Security.
Dr Christine Agius
Associate Professor at Swinburne University of TechnologyChristine Agius is Associate Professor in Politics and IR at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research interests focus on aspects of critical security studies, which include Swedish security, bordering practices and gendered approaches to security and militarisation. She currently works with UK colleagues on projects related to feminist foreign policy and NATO, and will soon commence two funded research projects with Swedish colleagues on war preparedness and the militarisation of the Baltic Sea islands in the context of NATO expansion to include Sweden and Finland. Recent publications appear in Review of International Studies, International Political Sociology, and Cooperation and Conflict.
Dr Farkhondeh Akbari
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash UniversityDr Farkhondeh Akbari is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash University where she researches inclusive peace, diplomatic actors, feminist foreign policy and the women, peace, and security agenda. She has recently published research focusing on the Taliban’s gender-apartheid regime in Afghanistan.
She completed her PhD in diplomatic studies at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University.
She has work experience at the Department of Political Affairs at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, and the Afghanistan Independent Directorate of Local Governance.
Hanna Manoilenko
PhD Researcher at the University of MelbourneHanna Manoilenko is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interest concerns feminist mobilisation in Ukraine and feminist perspectives on security, peacebuilding, reconstruction and recovery.
Dr Patricia Salas Sanchez
General Manager (Operations) at AIIA VictoriaPatricia Salas Sanchez is General Manager (Operations) at AIIA Victoria and an International Relations scholar. Her research focuses on the intersection of social and political theory, foreign policy, digital diplomacy and feminist politics.
Victoria Scheyer
PhD Researcher at Monash UniversityVictoria Scheyer is a PhD Researcher at Monash University, researching on antifeminism and the far-right in Germany. Her research interests are resistances to gender equality and backlashes to feminist politics, as well as the development of feminist foreign policies. Victoria was the co-president of the German section of the Woman’s International League for Peace and Freedom and advocates for feminist peace, security and foreign policy.
Dr Simone Wisotzki
Senior Researcher and Project Leader of the Department “International Security” at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (HSFK/PRIF)Simone Wisotzki is Senior Researcher and Project Leader of the Department “International Security” at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (HSFK/PRIF). Since 2016 Simone Wisotzki has been serving as Co-Chair of the Expert Group “Arms Export” of the Joint Conference Church and Development (GKKE) and since 2018 as Co-Chair of the Board of the German Society for Peace Research. Her areas of expertise cover the issues of Micro-Disarmament, Security Sector Reform, Gender Aspects in Post-Conflict Societies, Arms Control Aspects in Humanitarian Law and Nuclear Weapons Policy in UK and France.