Bring Rain: Helping Humanity in Crisis  

Join the World Affairs Council of Charlotte and Davidson College as we host Sarah Dawn Petrin, Analyst at the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, Humanitarian, and Author on Thursday, April 1, 2021.

Sarah Dawn Petrin is a humanitarian and an educator from Maine. Born in an African village during a season of drought, Sarah has helped refugees since she was 15 years old. From responding to an active shooter in the Capitol of Washington, DC to being held hostage by a warlord in the Sahara Desert, she has borne witness to the radical acts of ordinary heroism that lead to global change. She has worked in more than 20 countries with the United Nations and the Red Cross and is the founder of Protect the People. She is a voice of authority who advocates for people in need. She teaches on the Protection of Civilians and Human Security at the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute.

Her new book, Bring Rain: Helping Humanity in Crisis, is a call to action for responding to human need in a complex world – you can pre-order the book here.

Registered attendees will receive the Zoom link to join this program on March 31st, the day before the event. Please reach out to info@worldaffairscharlotte.org with any questions or issues.

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Program Information: 

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2021
Time: 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. ET
Cost:  Free

 

 

Biography: 

Sarah Dawn Petrin is a Peace Operations and Human Security Analyst at the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) where she provides technical support to the Peace Operations Division regarding Army, Joint and Multinational concepts, doctrine and training. She monitors United Nations Peacekeeping and NATO operations in cooperation with Joint Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs (OSD/SHA), and serves as a subject matter expert on the Protection of Civilians (PoC), Women Peace and Security (WPS), Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA), Human Rights, and Peace Operations Trends Analysis.

Sarah formerly served as the Founder and Managing Director of Protect the People (PTP), where she facilitated trainings for the U.S. military and partner nations on vulnerable populations including refugees, migrants, and victims of human trafficking. She has written numerous publications including U.S. Perspectives on the Protection of Civilians for NATO, The U.S. Women Peace and Security Agenda and UN Peacekeeping for the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a paper on Syrian Women in Crisis for the Georgetown University Institute for Women, Peace and Security. She has advised the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Task Force on Women’s and Family Health, providing policy recommendations on Health Implications of the Global Refugee and Migrant Crisis. Her first book, Bring Rain: Helping Humanity in Crisis, is expected out in March 2021.

Ms. Petrin has also served as a Senior Civilian Advisor to NATO on Protection of Civilians (PoC) concept development and advised the Military Contributions to Peace Support Operations working group. She supported revisions to the U.S. Inter-Service Peace Operations Manual, NATO’s Stability Policing concept, planning scenarios for UN Peacekeeping exercises, and contributed to the Army War College Military Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) Guide on the Protection of Civilians and Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO) Policy Handbook.

Sarah has over 20 years of experience in the humanitarian sector, leading teams in complex emergencies and advising United Nations agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). She has managed programs for refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) along the borders of Afghanistan-Pakistan, Kenya-Somalia, and Thailand-Burma and responded to major disasters such as the Ebola response, Southeast Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Haiti earthquake.

Ms. Petrin graduated from Oxford University with a Master of Studies in Forced Migration from the Refugee Studies Center and a distinction for her research on refugee return and state reconstruction. She also holds a B.A. in International Relations, African Studies, and French from Gordon College, where she was a Pike Scholar and AJ Gordon Scholar.