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Dr. Saira Yamin of the DKI APCSS Woman, Peace and Security issues facing the Indo-Pacific
The following is an interview from Dr. Saira Yamin, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies.
Dr. Saira Yamin joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in February 2012. She specializes in gendered security, South Asia, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, Crisis Management and Terrorism. She is a pioneering member and former Lead of the Women, Peace, and Security program at DKI APCSS. Her contributions include building partner-nation capacity in designing and implementing National Action Plans aligned with UNSCR 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace, and Security. She has also led several iterations of the Center’s most senior-level course titled Transnational Security Cooperation (TSC) and the Indo-Pacific Orientation Course (IPOC).
Previously, Dr. Yamin taught at the Carter Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, Virginia, and at the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. She has worked in the South Asian development sector with local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs and INGOs) and think tanks on conflict transformation, poverty alleviation, women and child rights, and with refugees. Dr. Yamin has appeared as a security analyst on Al-Jazeera, BBC, Canada TV, Pakistan Television, Voice of America and Thinktech Hawaii. Her media experience includes French and English news reading for Radio Pakistan and as a DJ on FM 100, a popular radio station in Islamabad.
Dr. Yamin is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs (Sage Publications). Her research spans a wide range of issues related to international peace and conflict, global governance, democratic transitions, and gender. Her writing have been published by the United States Institute of Peace, Oxford University Press, Christian Science Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy in Focus, The Friday Times (Lahore), Daily Times (Lahore), The News International (Islamabad), and Journal for the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (New Delhi), among others. She is the author of a book titled Stability through Economic Cooperation in a Nuclear Environment (2005, Manohar, New Delhi). Research for the book was supported by a competitive grant from the Regional Center for Strategic Studies, Colombo, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington D.C.
Dr. Yamin received her B.A. in Political Science and English Literature from the University of the Punjab, Pakistan. She earned both her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. She is the recipient of the Faculty Scholarship and Eleanor Roosevelt Student Scholarship awards conferred by the Carter Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University. She has received U.S. Federal Government awards for excellence as Mentor of the Year (2019) and for Team Excellence (2015).
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