Kirthi Jayakumar

Kirthi Jayakumar is a feminist researcher working in the areas of Women, Peace, and Security, Transitional Justice, and Feminist Foreign Policy. She founded and runs The Gender Security Project, one of the few WPS centres in the global south, which works at the cusp of gender, security, peace, and conflict through research, reportage, and documentation. Kirthi also set up the CRSV Observatory, which works to document conflict-related, systemic, and mass sexual violence across time and space. She currently serves as an advisor to the Women7 (W7) under the German Presidency of the G7. Kirthi coded an app for survivors of gender-based violence called Saahas, which works as a web and mobile app. She formerly founded and ran the Red Elephant Foundation, a civilian peacebuilding initiative that works for gender equality through storytelling, advocacy and digital interventions. She has trained over 7,000 individuals in bystander intervention, over 20,000 children in safe and unsafe touch awareness, and over 1,000 teachers on child sexual abuse prevention and timely response. She is a VV Lead, VV Engage, and Estee Lauder VV Visionaries Fellow.

Sub-specialties:
Feminist Foreign Policy
Systemic, Large-Scale, and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
International Law
International Criminal Law
International Humanitarian Law