Anita Singh

Anita Singh is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science and a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University. Under the supervision of Dr. Rob Huebert, Anita completed her Masters in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. Her Master's thesis is entitled "Synthesising Human and Traditional Security: A South Asian case study," and examines the diametric treatment of human and state security with the conflict between India and Pakistan. In the past few years, she has presented at several security conferences in Canada, sponsored by the Research Group in International Security in Montreal, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies in Halifax and the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies in Calgary. More recently, she has presented on issues of Canadian Foreign Policy at the Canadian Political Science Association meeting in Saskatoon. Her professional experience includes positions at the Southern Alberta Office of the Premier for two years, Vice-President of the Association for India's Development Calgary, and Research Assistant for various projects both at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and at the University of Calgary. Her current research interests continue the investigation of the relationship between individual-level human security with state conflict and looks at intervening issues of humanitarian intervention, environmental security, identity and gender.