The Human Security research cluster focuses on populations living amid conflict, displacement, and disaster. Drawing on interdisciplinary and field-engaged research, the Lab analyzes how violence and climate change stressors produce compound human security outcomes, including famine, public health crises, and gender-based insecurity. This work centers on applied interdisciplinary research that directly informs humanitarian policy and practice in fragile settings.

Initiatives

  • Group of people, including women and children, gathered around a table with a laptop, in an outdoor covered area with educational posters in the background.

    Food Security & Famine

    Field-based research on how community-led cultivation of Moringa oleifera reduces famine vulnerability across Somalia.

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    Water Security & Public Health

    Interdisciplinary research examining Moringa oleifera as a low-tech water purification method in war-affected regions of Somalia.

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  • Group of eight women standing in front of a blue university of toronto backdrop, smiling at the camera.

    Gender Security

    Research initiatives designed to empower women scholars and advance gender security, including in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

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