Laura J. Shepherd is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of International Relations at The University of Sydney, Australia and a Senior Research Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She has researched extensively on the Women, Peace and Security agenda since its inception.
'This collection does a great job of highlighting why it is necessary to assess the impact of NPAs at the local level. Listening to some of the most marginalized voices can show us the limitations of our current understanding of conflict resolution and processes of international and national policies’ translation to the local level.' - Mason Grant Considine, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Reading