International Justice, Gender, Anti-Corruption

Sharanjeet Parmar is President of Glasshouse Initiatives. A Canadian international lawyer and scholar, she has over 20 years of experience working on armed conflict, gender equality. children’s rights and public sector governance, including anti-corruption.

Ms. Parmar has prosecuted international crimes for a war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone and taught in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. She is a recognised expert on children and armed conflict and advises the United Nations Department of Peace Operations’ Child Protection Team. She is currently a member of Office of the President of Ukraine’s Bring Kids Back Taskforce.

A co-editor of Children and Transitional Justice, Ms. Parmar is an established scholar on international justice, sexual violence, and transitional justice. Her work has been published by Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). Harvard University Press, African Arguments and CNN. She has worked on projects in Afghanistan. Armenia. Burundi. DR Congo. Lberia, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ukraine, and Zambia.

Sample publications include:

• “The impact of gender crimes prosecutions by the Special Court for Sierra Leone,” International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare, Gloppen & Langford, eds. (Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming). 
• “A purposeful role for women and peacebuiding in Mali,” McGill Centre for Human Rights (2019).
• “Minors and Miners: Accountability beyond child soldiering in the DRC”, with Yann Lebrat, in Research Handbook on Child Soldiers, M. Drumbl & J. Barrett, eds., Edward Elgar (2019).
• “Measuring the deterrent effect of the International Criminal Court in the DR Congo,” The Deterrent effect of International Criminal Tribunals, Schense 8 Carter, eds. (International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2016).
• “How to tackle the DRCs complex anti-impunity agenda,” African Arguments (2014).
• “Women’s agenda key to stabilizing eastern Congo,” African Arguments (2013).
• “Pressure on Congolese authorities key to ending impunity for sexual violence,” ICTJ (2013).
• ‘Warlords beyond Kony and Lubanga,” Global Public Square, CNN (March 2012).