Dr Georgina Holmes

Dr Georgina Holmes is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at The Open University and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

Her research investigates gender, international security governance and organisational change in International Organisations; norm implementation and practice change in militaries engaged in peacekeeping and the gendered politics of training and deploying male and female military peacekeepers.

She is an academic advisor on Women, Peace and Security for the British Army's training team; co-founder of the BISA Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group and a Trustee of the British International Studies Association.

Her work is published in Security Dialogue, International Peacekeeping, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding; Genocide Studies and Prevention and The RUSI Journal.

She is the author of Women and War in Rwanda: Gender, Media and the Representation of Genocide (Bloomsburg, 2013).