Megan Bastick
Thesis title: Military responses to sexual violence in conflict
PhD supervisors:
Background
Megan Bastick has worked for the last decade with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), an intergovernmental foundation mandated to support good governance and reform of the security sector. Megan’s work is focused on the integration of gender perspectives in the security sector, in particular in armed forces. She has written and edited a range of publications for security practitioners and policymakers. Megan has also trained and worked with the UN, OSCE, NATO and government officials, armed forces and local women's organisations in a range of countries and contexts.
Megan's doctoral research examines how the evolving international norms concerning protection of civilians in armed conflict, in particular as regards sexual violence, are understood and enacted by militaries.
CV
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Qualifications
Master of International Law (LLM, First class), University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (BA LLB), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Responsibilities & affiliations
Member of: the University of Edinburgh's Empirical Legal Research Network, Centre of Security Research (CeSeR), International Law Discussion Group and Gender Politics Research Group; the British International Studies Association (BISA); the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP); the International Network to Promote the Rule of Law (INPROL) and the Defence Research Network.
Research summary
International human rights and humanitarian law
Security sector reform
Gender and feminist theory
Armed forces
Knowledge exchange
2016-2018 Trained participants in the Women in Conflict 1325 Fellowship from Syria, Yemen, Libya, Iraq and Palestine in addressing security sector reform in peace processes
2016 Established military/academic Knowledge Exchange Network on “The Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the British armed forces,” the inaugural workshop of which was held at the Ministry of Defence, London, 11 March
2015/6 Trained British armed forces personnel on gender and international humanitarian law, gender and security sector reform
2015/6 Facilitated workshops for Georgian armed forces personnel on gender and security sector oversight
2015 “Integrating gender in security and justice sector reform,” presented at the workshop Women, Peace and Security: Opportunities and Pitfalls of a Global Gender Norm, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London, 10 December
2015 “Gender related complaints” presented at the conferences of women in the Swedish Armed Forces and the Bulgarian Armed Forces Women Association
Current project grants
2018-19 Lead researcher of project on Gender and Security, between DCAF, UN Women and OSCE ODIHR
2017-2019 Co-Director of project on Women, Peace and Security in the Georgian Armed Forces, awarded 150,000 Euro by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme
Past project grants
2015-2016 Lead researcher of project on handling of gender-related complaints in armed forces, awarded 72,000 Euro by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Megan Bastick & Claire Duncanson (2018) Agents of Change? Gender Advisors in NATO Militaries, International Peacekeeping, 25:4, 554-577, DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2018.1492876
Bastick, M. (2008) "Integrating gender in post-conflict security sector reform", SIPRI Yearbook 2008: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, 149, Oxford University Press, Oxford
https://www.sipri.org/yearbook/2008
Book chapters
Bastick, M. (2018) “Gender and Security Sector Reform” in Gentry. C.E, Shepherd, L.J., Sjoberg, L. (eds) Routledge Handbook on Gender and Security. Routledge, London https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315525082
Bastick M. (2017) “Gender, Militaries and Security Sector Reform” in: Woodward R., Duncanson C. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. Palgrave Macmillan, London
https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137516763
Bastick, M. and Valasek K., “Converging Agendas: Women, peace, security, and small arms” in Graduate Institute of International Development Studies (2014). Small arms survey 2014 : Women and guns.
Other
Inclusive Security and DCAF. A Women’s Guide to Security Sector Reform: Training Curriculum. Washington, D.C.: Inclusive Security and DCAF, 2017 (lead editor)
Bastick, M. Gender and Complaints Mechanisms: A Handbook for Armed Forces and Ombuds Institutions, DCAF, Geneva, 2015
Bastick, M. Integrating a Gender Perspective into Internal Oversight within Armed Forces, DCAF, OSCE, OSCE/ODIHR, Geneva, 2014
Bastick, M. Integrating Gender into Internal Police Oversight, DCAF, OSCE, OSCE/ODIHR, Geneva, 2014
Bastick, M. Integrating Gender into Oversight of the Security Sector by Ombuds Institutions & National Human Rights Institutions, DCAF, OSCE, OSCE/ODIHR, Geneva, 2014
Bastick, M. and T. Whitman, A Women’s Guide to Security Sector Reform, The Institute for Inclusive Security & DCAF, Geneva, 2013
Bastick, M., Gender Self-Assessment Guide for the Police, Armed Forces and Justice Sector, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Geneva, 2011
Bastick, M., "The role of penal reform in security sector reform", DCAF Occasional Paper No.18, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Geneva, 2010
Bastick, M. and Valasek K. Eds., Gender and Security Sector Reform Training Resource Package, DCAF, Geneva, 2009
Bastick, M. & Townhead, L., "Women in prison: a commentary on the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners", Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva, 2008
Bastick, M. and Valasek K. Eds., Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit, DCAF, OSCE/ODIHR, UN-INSTRAW, Geneva, 2008
Bastick, M., Grimm, K. and Kunz, R., Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: Global Overview and Implications for the Security Sector, DCAF, Geneva, 2007
Bastick, M. and Grimm, K., "Security sector responses to trafficking in human beings", DCAF Policy Paper No., DCAF, Geneva, 2006
Bastick, M. ‘Mères et enfants en prison dans le monde’ 193 Revue Quart Monde, 2005 [written in English and translated by editors]
Bastick, M. and Brett, R., “Children in prison with their mothers”, 105 Early Childhood Matters, 2005
2018 Fran Trust grant, Foundation Scotland
2015-2019 Cameron PhD Studentship, University of Edinburgh
2004 Foundation Scholarship, Queens’ College, Cambridge
2003-2004 Chevening Scholarship & Honorary Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship
2003 Herbert John Cable Memorial Prize of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law (for work done as part of an Australian Red Cross ‘Women and War’ project)