Janie Leatherman

Who is Janie Leatherman?

Janie L. Leatherman is a scholar from the United States. She is the Director of International Studies, and Professor of Politics at Fairfield University. Her publications encompass conflict early warning and prevention, conflict transformation, and peace building, which work is cited in the development of the international principle and doctrine on the Responsibility to Protect. In addition, her scholarship has contributed to the normative understanding of peace building, and the exercise of discipline and punitive power in international affairs, including in the global political economy of sexual violence and armed conflict, and its gendered dimensions.