Carol Cohn

Carol Cohn, es directora del Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights y profesora de Estudios de Género en la Universidad de Massachusetts, Boston. Sus áreas de trabajo son el género y la seguridad, las armas de destrucción masiva y la dimensión del género en los conflictos armados y en la construcción de la paz. Cohn ha participado activamente en el Grupo de Trabajo sobre Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad desde 2001.

Dr. Carol Cohn is the founding director of the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, and a leader in the scholarly community addressing issues of gender in global politics, armed conflict and security.  

Dr. Cohn’s research and writing has focused on gender and security issues ranging from work on the discourse of civilian nuclear defense intellectuals and U.S. national security elites to gender integration issues in the US military, feminist approaches to thinking about weapons of mass destruction, the gender dimensions of contemporary armed conflicts, the concept of “vulnerability” in security and humanitarian discourse, and gender mainstreaming in international peace and security institutions, including the passage of UN Security Council Resolutions on women, peace and security  and the on-going efforts to ensure its implementation at the international, national, and grassroots levels.