<span class="vcard">Mayesha Alam</span>

Mayesha Alam

Guest Author

Mayesha Alam is Senior Adviser to the Vice President for Policy and Research at Mercy Corps. She previously served as Deputy Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, and has also worked with the U.N., the World Bank, OSCE, and various NGOs.

Dr. Alam is the author of Women and Transitional Justice: Progress and Persistent Challenges in Retributive and Restorative Processes (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), co-editor of Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military (Georgetown University Press 2019), and numerous other publications on topics such as the causes and consequences of armed conflict, peacebuilding, climate risk and resilience, human rights, and migration. A Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, Dr. Alam holds a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

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An Iraqi woman accused of being close to the Islamic State group, an allegation she insists has been intentionally designed to obscure a land dispute, walks at the Hasansham camp for internally displaced people in northern Iraq on December 10, 2020. Rights groups and others -- including the International Organisation for Migration -- are worried about displaced families who stand accused of links to IS, sometimes falsely, and may face violent retribution if sent home. (Photo by FLORENT VERGNES/AFP via Getty Images)
A students carries bags and luggage across the main gate as they leave as directed by authorities of the University of Lagos to halt the spread of Covid-19 on Campus in Yaba, Lagos, on July 15, 2021. Some students wear masks.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende tour Ny-Alesund Village, the northernmost civilian settlement in the world, before visiting Blomstrand Glacier, on June 16, 2016, in Ny-Alesund, Norway.
Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of an attack outside a hospital in Kabul on May 12, 2020.

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