Professor S. Kouvo

Dr. Sari Kouvo is co-founder and co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN). Her previous positions include Head of Program at the International Centre for Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Rule of Law Advisor to the European Union Special Representative for Afghanistan, researcher on Afghanistan at Amnesty International and researcher and lecturer at the Department of Law at Gothenburg University. She is also a founding member of the Centre for Global Gender Studies and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the University of Gothenburg. She has held visiting scholarships at the Abo Academy Center for Human Rights, Australian National University, Kent University and the NATO Defense College.

She has published extensively on issues relating to international law, human rights, gender, state-building and Afghanistan. Her publications include Making Just Rights? Mainstreaming Gender and Women’s Human Rights (Iustus Publications, 2004), “The United Nations and Gender Mainstreaming: Limits and Possibilities” in International Law: Modern Feminist Approaches, (Hart Publications, 2005) and “Righting the Course? Humanitarian Intervention, the War on Terror and the Future of Afghanistan” (with Fatima Ayub) in International Affairs (2008).