Introduction
Anastasia Shesterinina is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow leading the £1.2m Civil War Paths project "Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages: A Comparative Approach," Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War and Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Politics at the University of Sheffield. After receiving her PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, she was a Canada Social Science and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University's Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence. Her field-intensive research examines the internal dynamics of and international intervention in contemporary armed conflict, with a focus on violent mobilization, ex-combatant reintegration, and civilian protection norms and practices. Her book Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia published with Cornell University Press in 2021 received the 2022 APSA Charles Taylor Book Award. Her work has appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Peace Research, Perspectives on Politics, European Journal of International Relations, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and International Peacekeeping.
Expert
Anastasia Shesterinina is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow leading the £1.2m Civil War Paths project "Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages: A Comparative Approach," Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War and Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Politics at the University of Sheffield. After receiving her PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, she was a Canada Social Science and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University's Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence. Her field-intensive research examines the internal dynamics of and international intervention in contemporary armed conflict, with a focus on violent mobilization, ex-combatant reintegration, and civilian protection norms and practices. Her book Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia published with Cornell University Press in 2021 received the 2022 APSA Charles Taylor Book Award. Her work has appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Peace Research, Perspectives on Politics, European Journal of International Relations, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and International Peacekeeping.
Fields of expertise: Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion, Participation, Reduction of inequalities / equity / poverty eradication, Social change / social transformations