Kiran Stallone
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Child Soldiers
- Climate-Related Issues
- Corruption/Impunity
- Ex-Combatant Reintegration
- Forced Conscription
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- LGBTQ
- Military Service
- Police Persecution
- Political Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Risk Of Return
- Safe Internal Relocation
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Torture
About Kiran Stallone
Dr. Kiran Stallone is currently the Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MSc in Latin American Studies from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the gendered dimensions of political violence and civilian responses to war and conflict, and she is an expert on the Colombian armed conflict.
Since July 2022, Dr. Stallone has been supporting Colombian asylum seekers in the United States court system by serving as an expert witness. In this role, she draws on her country-specific expertise on Colombia’s armed conflict to produce detailed country conditions reports submitted in U.S. courts. She is also available to provide oral testimony. She has collaborated with a range of attorneys and law firms to ensure that applicants’ experiences are accurately and effectively documented. She can provide expert testimony about the experiences of Colombian women, men, and members of the LGBT+ population who have been affected by the country’s armed conflict. She can also provide expert testimony about individuals who have been victimized and/or displaced, as well as statements about gender-based violence in Colombian society more generally (outside of the armed conflict).
As an academic, her work examines patterns of gender-based inequalities in contexts of armed conflict while also proposing grounded, evidence-based approaches to addressing them. She has sought not only to document the violence and inequalities that women experience in war, but also to highlight the forms of agency and resilience they demonstrate in these contexts. Rather than focusing exclusively on top-down interventions, her research emphasizes the importance of micro-level initiatives and everyday strategies developed by women on the ground, and how these practices can shape broader wartime and post-conflict outcomes. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including Journal of Peace Research, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender, Theory and Society, Third World Quarterly, and Violence Against Women.
