Charli Carpenter is an International Security Program Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Legal Studies at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Director of Human Security Lab, an interdisciplinary initiative focused on science in the human interest. Her teaching and research interests include the international law and human security, protection of civilians, laws of war, humanitarian affairs, humanitarian disarmament, global advocacy networks, political violence, and the role of pop culture in global security. She has published three books and numerous journal articles, has served as a consultant for the United Nations, State Department, Department of Defense, and human rights NGO community and regularly contributes to Foreign Policy, World Politics Review, and Foreign Affairs.