Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Sudan

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, developing policy recommendations for addressing the crises experienced by war-displaced women. She is also a visiting assistant professor of Africana and gender studies at Brown University, where she focuses on security, human rights protection, and forced migration. She is examining the opportunities and challenges of working with displaced people prior to post-conflict repatriation: Their experiences while displaced can determine whether they are a force for stabilization or destabilization upon returning to their homes. Ms. Abusharaf's work has received support from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study Center, as well as the Andrew Mellon-MIT Center for International Studies. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research at Brown and a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tufts University. Ms. Abusharaf is the author of numerous publications, including Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America, one of the first books devoted to the experience of Sudanese immigrants and exiles in the United States.

Ms. Abusharaf's peace-building activities include:

• working as a program officer at Sudan Development Corporation, overseeing major programs affecting women throughout the country; and
• conducting extensive research on the conditions of internally displaced people in Khartoum's major camps and towns.
  

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