OmniTRAX/Broe Quest Series
Erin Baines
Research Director of the Conflict and Development Programme
Liu Institute for Global Issues
Erin Baines is the Research Director of the Conflict and Development Programme at the Liu Institute for Global Issues. Erin completed her PhD in International Relations at Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia before assuming a SSHRC post-doctoral award at the Centre for International Relations at UBC and the Department of Geography at SFU.
Her research interests include the politics of humanitarianism and forced displacement, gender and IR, youth and human security issues. Recent and forthcoming publications include: Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, the UN and the Global Refugee Crisis (London: Ashgate Publishing) forthcoming 2004, 'The Contradictions of Canadian Commitments to Refugee Women' in Sjolander, Smith and Stienstra (eds), Feminist Perspectives in Canadian Foreign Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press) May 2003, and ‘Body Politics and the Rwandan Crisis’ Third World Quarterly, 24 (3) 2003.
Recent awards include a two year, interdisciplinary team research grant from Status of Women Canada, ‘Understanding the Effects of Canada’s New Immigration and Refugee Protection Act on Women Asylum Seekers’, and the Henry Frank Guggenheim Prize on ‘The Role of the Academic in Reducing Violent Conflict’. Erin will be teaching a UBC political science seminar this winter on 'The Politics of Humanitarianism: Topics in Foreign Policy'. She has also taught UBC Poli 369, 'Issues of International Security: The Global Refugee Crisis'. She is a member of the Positive Space campaign on UBC campus.