NEWS ARCHIVE

IW welcomes new Advisory Board member

Alison Crosby is Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace, Internationalism, and Development in the School of Women’s Studies at York University, Canada. Prior to assuming this position in July 2007, she worked for six years for the Canadian social justice organisation Inter Pares, where she helped develop a regional programme on gender justice issues in Latin America with local counterparts in Peru, Colombia and Guatemala. Her research interests and publications have focused on migration and security policy, and feminist approaches to understandings of armed conflict and transitional justice. She is currently initiating a new research project on gender and reparations in Guatemala. She also co-coordinates the international Women in Conflict Zones Network.

She is currently assisting Impunity Watch with the development of its Perspectives Programme in relation to impunity for conflict-era violence against women, a project that shall work with women's organisations in Latin America, the former Yugoslavia and the Great Lakes of Africa to produce comparative research, stimulate dialogue and advance policy in this field.