Dr. Hakan Seckinelgin’s new book, International Security, Conflict and Gender: ‘HIV is another war’ has received a rave review in the Global Policy Journal (GPJ).

First published in 2012 and now available in digital format, International Security, Conflict and Gender “challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts, and examines first-hand evidence and experiences of conflict and HIV/AIDS.”  Drawing on Dr. Seckinelgin’s research in post-conflict Burundi, the book is “a much needed re-conceptualisation of the links between conflict, gendered relations and HIV”, according to the GPJ.

Reviewer Rochelle Burgess calls International Security, Conflict and Gender a “must read for social policy actors” and “an immaculate and welcome contribution” to debates on how and whether local context-specific knowledge should fit into global HIV/AIDS policy formation.

This insistent focus on including the perspectives and experiences of the “end-users” of development and health policies is also a defining focus of the LSE’s DFID-funded Justice and Security Research Programme, where Dr. Seckinelgin is a Senior Researcher and Gender Advisor.

The full review is available here.