# Dara Kay Cohen Faculty Associate. Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. ![Dara Kay Cohen.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/wcfia/files/cohen_dara_kay.jpg?itok=6ezUeeGC) location\_on 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Littauer 360, Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [(617) 495-7838]() email [dara\_cohen@hks.harvard.edu](mailto:dara_cohen@hks.harvard.edu) laptop\_windows [Personal Website](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/dara-kay-cohen) **Research interests:** International relations; international security; civil war; political violence; violence during conflict; wartime sexual violence; gender and conflict; West Africa; Timor-Leste; El Salvador; and Haiti. - ## Newsletter Issues [Epicenter: November 2013](/epicenter/november-2013) [Epicenter: January 2015](/newsletter-issues/epicenter-january-2015) - ## People Categories [Affiliates](/affiliates) [Faculty Associates](/affiliates/faculty_associates)