Category: Fellow Kirthi Jayakumar
Kirthi Jayakumar has 15 years of experience working as a feminist researcher, facilitator GBV, peace educator, and mediator. She has experience engaging in multilateral processes through the Women 7, UNNGLS, European Union, United Nations, and Regional Consultations for the Commission on the Status of Women. She focuses on the Women, Peace, Security Agenda, Feminist Foreign Policy, and Transitional Justice.
Jayakumar holds a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from CTPSR, Coventry University, and another master’s degree in Sustainable Peace in a Contemporary World from UPEACE, Costa Rica. She has a bachelor’s degree in law from SOEL, Chennai and speaks English, Hindi, Tamil, Spanish (basic), and French (basic).
Jayakumar founded and runs civitatem resolutions, an initiative dedicated to facilitating and supporting networked feminisms by working with community, building online and offline containers, and mapping constellations of knowledge. She also set up the CRSV Observatory, a memory project that documents sexual violence in armed conflict, violent conflict, settler colonialism, and mass violence contexts.