Laura Collins

Laura Collins was born and raised in Scotland and attended Aberdeen University, graduating with a Joint BA in French and International Relations in 2008. Laura is also a graduate of the Joint European MA in Human Rights and Genocide Studies from Kingston University, London. Her MA thesis explored the nexus between religion and genocide and mass atrocities, and examined the potential for religion both in its institutional and theological frameworks to play a role in the prevention and mitigation of atrocity crimes.

Laura joins the S-CAR communinty as the Dean's Fellow working for the Program on History, Memory, and Conflict.

Laura’s previous experience includes being involved in developing national and regional policies and tactics for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities at the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, a US based nonprofit organisations that works with governments to increase their domestic and international capacity to prevent genocide and mass atrocities. More recently, Laura assisted in the development of a global parliamentary network for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities at Aegis Trust and acted as the Secretariat to British All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (APPG). During her time at Aegis Trust, Laura encouraged UK parliamentarians and others to identify policy and legislative gaps that they may seek to fill in regard to the prevention of atrocity crimes, supported parliamentarians to increase the effectivenss of their scrutiny of government, and promoted an understaning of the importance of long term approaches to genocide prevention through the creation of national parliamentary mechanisms.