Lesley Pruitt

Dr Lesley Pruitt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences & Research Affiliate of the Initiative for Peacebuilding at the University of Melbourne. She is also the author of Youth Peacebuilding: Music, Gender, and Change (State University of New York Press, 2013) and The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, Policing, and the UN’s First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit (University of California Press, 2016). She is also co-author of Dancing through the Dissonance: Creative Movement and Peacebuilding (Manchester University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Young Women & Leadership (Routledge, 2020).