Sarah is the Centre Manager at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She was previously a Research Officer where she worked on the 'Feminist International Law of Peace and Security', 'Gendered Peace' and ‘Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls’ projects. She is author of Gendering Peace: UN Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste (Routledge, Gender in Global Politics Series, 2019).
Before joining LSE WPS she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest and has also taught at Monash University, Swinburne University of Technology and Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.
You can find Sarah on Twitter at @sj_smith418.
Selected publications:
- A different Women, Peace and Security is possible? Intersectionality in Women, Peace and Security resolutions and national action plans ( with Elena B. Stavrevska). European Journal of Politics and Gender, 5 (1) (2022):63-82
- ‘Intersectionality and peace’ (with Elena B. Stavrevska), 2020. In Oliver Richmond & Gëzim Visoka (eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies
- ‘Women, Peace & Security as evolving contested terrain’ (with Aiko Holvikivi), 2020. LSE Women, Peace & Security blog. Available at:
- ‘Bodies/biopolitics/identity’, (with Christine Agius), 2020. In Tarja Väyrynen, Élise Féron, Peace Medie, Swati Parashar & Catia Confortini (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research.