Heather Tasker
Assistant Professor
Email: Heather.Tasker@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 431-2141
Fax: (902) 494-3825
Mailing Address:
- Gender Violence
- Transitional Justice
- International Criminal Law
- Human Rights
Education:
- BA, UPEI
- MA, York University
- PhD, York University
Profile:
Dr. Heather Tasker is an Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science and the Law, Justice & Society program at ±«Óătv University. Dr. Taskerâs research explores gendered violence in conflict-affected contexts through the lenses of transitional justice, human rights, and feminist legal studies. In collaboration with community-based partners, she has examined womenâs âlaw-makingâ in forced marriages, access to justice following peacekeeper-perpetrated sexual abuse, and the development of transitional justice mechanisms in response to conflict-related sexual violence. Ongoing projects explore how access to healthcare impacts legal decision-making following sexual violence in the DRC, and tracks the inclusion of CRSV survivors in justice mechanisms in Liberia and North East Nigeria.
Dr. Taskerâs recent work has been published in the Journal of Peace Research, Law & Society Review, International Studies Review and in edited book collections focused on socio-legal methods and critical theory. She is a member of the Law & Society Association, Canadian Law & Society Association, Women, Peace and Security Network- Canada, and the Missing Peace Scholars Network (USIP).
Selected Publications:
Tasker, H.; Bunting, A.; Van der Werf, K.; Bartels, S. (2023). âThose MONUSCO Agents Left While We Were Still Pregnantâ: Accountability and Support for Peacekeeper-Fathered Children in the DRC.â Journal of Peace Research (advance online access).
Wagner, K.; Tasker, H.; Vahedi, L.; Bartels, S.; Lee, S. (2022). âBorn between War and Peace:
Situating Peacekeeper-Fathered Children in Research on Children Born of War.â Frontiers in Political Science (4).
Bunting, A.; Tasker, H.; Lockhart, E. (2021). âWomen's LawâMaking and Contestations of âMarriageâ in African Conflict Situations.â Law & Society Review, 55(4), 614-633.
Kollie, T.C.; Cooper, A.; Tasker, H. Bartels, S.; Bunting, A. âGendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on marginalized women in Liberia: Resilience and enduring challenges.â International Studies Review, Forum: Women, Peace and Security, Gendered Risks, and COVID-19. (In-Press)
Tasker, H. âResolving Justice: Frictions between Community-based Organizations and the United Nations Women Peace and Security agenda.â In Bunting, A., Kiconco, A., & Quirk, J. (Eds.). (2023). Research as More Than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-based Violence in African Societies. Ohio University Press.
Tasker, H. (2023) âThrough Different Lenses: Law, Space, and Humanitarianism Within a UNHCR Photography Projectâ in Alam, M.; Dwyer, P.; Roots, K. (eds.) Violence, Imagination and Resistance: Socio-legal Interrogations of Power. Athabasca University Press.
Roots, K.; Lockhart, E.; Tasker, H. (2023) âLaw, Gendered Violence, and Justice: Critically Engaging #MeToo.â in Alam, M.; Dwyer, P.; Roots, K. (eds.) Violence, Imagination and Resistance: Socio-legal Interrogations of Power. Athabasca University Press