Swati Parashar is Professor in Peace and Development at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her teaching and research have led to academic appointments and fellowships in India, Singapore, UK, US, Ireland, Australia and Sweden. She has also taught at the University of Rwanda in Kigali and at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a member of the Swedish Development Research Network and has also served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of SIDA.
Swati’s research interests include feminism, postcolonialism, research methodologies, gender-based violence, conflict, peace and development in South Asia and East Africa. She is the author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury (Routledge, 2014); co author of Camille Bulcke: The Jesuit Exponent of Ramkatha (Cambridge University Press, 2024); and co author of Ripping, Cutting, Stitching: Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023). Swati also contributes regularly to media debates through op eds and blogs and has served as Chair of the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association, and as Program Co-Chair for their 2023 annual convention at Montreal.
Swati holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from Lancaster University, UK; MA in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; and a BA (Hons) History from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, India.
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