Tackling Violence against Women: From Knowledge to Practical

about the authors
Jennifer Milliken is the Founder and principal of Milliken Strategy &
Communications, an event content and design consultancy, and the
program Director for the women’s Forum global Meeting. previously, she
was principal at Smadja & Associates Strategic Advisory, and Assistant
professor of International Relations at the graduate Institute of International
and Development Studies. Jennifer holds a phD in political Science from the
University of Minnesota, an MA in International Relations from Syracuse
University, and a BA (cum laude) in Communications from Concordia University.
Elisabeth Gilgen is a researcher at the Small Arms Survey. Her research
concentrates on the measuring and monitoring of different forms of armed
violence at a global, regional, and local level, including the characteristics
of weapons, perpetrators, and victims. She is the coordinator of the Global
Burden of Armed Violence report. From 2007 to 2009, she was an employee
of the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs. She holds a Master’s degree
in political Science and International Law from the University of Berne,
Switzerland. As part of her degree programme, she was a visiting student at
Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.
Jasna Lazarevic is an associate researcher at the Small Arms Survey. Her
primary research interests include arms transfers to armed groups and
transparency in the small arms trade, as well as stockpile management and
surplus destruction. Her work also includes projects on armed violence and
gender issues, focusing in particular on female roles in armed groups and
gangs, as well as females as agents and victims of political violence. She
co-authored the chapter entitled ‘The Other Half: girls in gangs’ for the Small
Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns and contributed substantially
to a chapter on armed violence against women for the Global Burden of Armed
Violence report (gD Secretariat, 2008b).
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