Leslie Dwyer is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict at S-CAR. She joined the faculty of S-CAR in 2009. She is a cultural anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Princeton University whose academic expertise focuses on issues of violence, gender, post-conflict social life, transitional justice, and the politics of memory and identity. Her current research, which has been supported by grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace, is an ethnographic study of the aftermath of political violence in Indonesia, where she has worked for over 20 years. Her book on this research, entitled ‘A World in Fragments’: Aftermaths of Violence in Bali, Indonesia, will be published in the University of Pennsylvania Press “Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights” series in 2016. She is a documentary filmmaker whose most recent film, The Black Highway, engages critically with post-conflict peace-building practices in Aceh, Indonesia. She is the Director of the Indonesia-U.S. Youth Leadership Program, an exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State that teaches conflict resolution and leadership skills to youth. In addition to her work in Indonesia, Dr. Dwyer has conducted research in Mindanao, Philippines and Nepal on gender, peace-building and gender-based violence. She has also assisted U.S. government agencies and educational organizations with developing training curriculum on gender and conflict issues.
