The 2020 Missing Peace Scholars Conference, "COVID-19 & Conflict-related Sexual Violence: Relationships & Implications for Research," features leading experts on the intersection of COVID-19 and conflict-related sexual violence.
In order of appearance:
-Special Representative to the UN Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten
-Ms. Dominique Vidale-Plaza of the Mukwege Foundation
-Dr. Torunn L. Tryggestad, Deputy Director, Peace Research Institute Oslo; Director, PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security
-Dr. Lindsay Stark, Associate Professor of Public Health, Brown School; Co-Director, Center for Violence and Injury Prevention; Co-Director, International Center for Child Health and Development, Washington University in St. Louis
-Dr. Michele Leiby, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of
Wooster, USA
The Missing Peace Initiative was formed in 2012 to connect policymakers, practitioners, and academics to strengthen understanding of and evidence-based response to conflict-related sexual violence.
