Book launch with a panel discussion
Sabrina Karim, Cornell University, will give a brief presentation of her book Positioning Women in Conflict Studies: How Women’s Status Affects Political Violence (Oxford University Press 2024), followed by a discussion with gender and conflict experts Summer Lindsey, Rutgers University, and Kanisha Bond, Binghamton University (SUNY).  

About the Book
Authored by Dr. Sabrina Karim and Dr. Daniel Hill Jr., the book Positioning Women in Conflict Studies: How Women’s Status Affects Political Violence (Oxford University Press 2024), explores how the conflation of “gender equality” with “women” has inhibited progress on understanding how variation in women’s status in countries affects levels of political violence. 

The second half of the book then delves into the pathways through which different aspects of women’s status—women’s inclusion, women’s rights, harm to women, and beliefs about women’s roles—affects levels of political violence globally.    

About the Speaker
Dr. Sabrina Karim is an associate professor in the government department. Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, particularly state building in the aftermath of civil war.  Specifically, she studies international involvement in security assistance to post-conflict states, gender reforms in peacekeeping and domestic security sectors, and the relationship between gender and violence. She directs the Gender and the Security Sector Lab.

Panelists
Dr. Summer Lindsey is an assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on the enduring implications of armed conflict for women’s security. Her work combines experimental approaches with quantitative and qualitative observational work to understand when and how social norms related to violence against women change. 

Dr. Kanisha Bond is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Her work orbits one central research question: How do organization and identity influence the dynamics of political challenges in polarized societies? She uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine specifically mobilization and institution-building among radical socio-political groups around the world, particularly in North America, Latin America, and Africa. 

Host
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Co-hosts
Department of Government
Gender and the Security Sector Lab