Aisling Swaine
Aisling Swaine (Irish pronounced Ashling) is from Ballitore, County Kildare, Ireland and is an Associate Professor of Practice of International Affairs, focusing on women, security and development at the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University. Education. Swaine attended school at Coláiste Lorcáin in Castledermot. She is a graduate of the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (PhD 2011) and the University College Dublin (MSc 1999, BA 1998). Career. Aisling Swaine started her career as a Program Manager of Community Development at Concern Worldwide in Timor-Leste in 2001. In 2003, she stayed in the country  to become a Program Manager for the Traditional Justice and Gender Based Violence Study at the International Rescue Committee. She continued working at the International Rescue Committee until 2006 after taking a position as Program Manager at the Office of the Prime Minister for the Promotion of Equality (Timor-Leste) and as a Technical Coordinator for the Gender Based Violence Program in Darfur, Sudan. During that time she also consulted for Concern Worldwide in Tanzania (2005). From 2007 until 2012, Swaine was a Gender Equality Consultant for Irish Aid in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ireland. She concurrently advised  and consulted for the United Nations IASC Gender Capacity Project of UN Women and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) from 2011–2012. She became a Specialist in Peace and Security at the Peace and Security Unit of UN Women from 2012–2013. Swaine was a Gender Consultant on the UNDP ExpRes Roster on Crisis Prevention and Recover at the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery. She was a member of UNICEF Emergency Response Roster. Swaine was a visiting Fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School in 2009 and 2011. She has also been a  Board member of the Centre for Global Education since 2010. She has written several articles and documents analyzing United Nations Security Resolution 1325. Between 2011 and 2015, Swaine was a Visiting Fellow at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster. Swaine was Co-Editor of the organization's SSRN Paper Series (2008 – 2012), and Co-organizer of its research seminar series (2009 – 2011) Also between 2011 and 2015, she worked as an associate at Kimmage Development Studies Centre, and also was named as a Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Fellow at Human Rights Education Associates. Swaine was named Hauser  Global Fellow of the New York University School of Law in 2013. Since 2015, she has taught courses on gender, security and development at the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Publications. Academic Peer-Reviewed Publications Academic Conference Papers Policy Publications and Reports