Research expertise

In my doctoral thesis, I am examining the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) in the post-Soviet space, more specifically in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and Armenia. My research includes data collection through policy analysis, observations and 80+ fieldwork interviews with Government representatives, UN officers, NGOs/CSOs, WPS-related experts and conflict-affected peacebuilders in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus region. 

Precisely, I am investigating how National Action Plans (NAPs) emerged across the post-Soviet region and how the WPS agenda is understood and implemented in complex militarized environments (i.e., military occupation, invasion and protracted conflicts)

My work is funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC) and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).

In other research projects, I am also exploring questions related to the co-existence of norms (e.g., WPS agenda, feminist foreign policies, CEDAW, Istanbul Convention), the relations between feminism & militarism, women's participation in the security & defense sector, gender perspectives in arms control, disarmament & non-proliferation, women in armed political violence as well as de facto States in the post-Soviet space.