Karen Louise Bennett
Research Development Coordinator
Karen Bennett is Research Development Coordinator at the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute. Karen has worked in the field of human rights since 1990 in the following areas: refugee resettlement assistance; fieldwork and foreign policy advocacy as it pertains to refugee protection; human rights monitoring and technical assistance; human rights staff management and training; and teaching human rights/ international relations university courses. Karen has primarily worked in the United States, Europe (five years of which was in Bosnia-Herzegovina), and Southeast Asia with brief consultancies elsewhere. Karen's professional experience is with the U.S. State Department; international NGOs; the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; the UN Development Programme; the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe; universities and research institutions. Karen has developed human rights projects and programmes with these organizations and has assisted in civil society development and in higher education research specific to human rights initiatives. Karen's academic background is in International Relations with a BA from Webster University in Leiden, Netherlands and an MA in International Relations from the American University School of International Service, Washington DC, USA.
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