Florence Waller-Carr

Florence completed her ESRC funded PhD at the LSE Gender Department in Oct 2025. Her research, titled 'Feminist futures and transformative potential: The paradoxes of CSO engagement in shaping the Women, Peace, and Security agenda' explores the role of civil society organisations in shaping and implementing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda and their broader role in working for sustainable feminist peace. Her research focuses on the UK, Lebanon and the UN Security Council.

Florence also works in policy and practice and is currently the Project Manager for the WPS Helpdesk hosted at Saferworld. The Helpdesk provides research and technical support across UK government to ensure gender-sensitive policy and programming on peace and security. Prior to this she has worked for Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS), Plan International and UN Women where her work focused on the implementation of WPS and women and girls’ rights in conflict and humanitarian contexts. She is also the Co-Founder and Trustee of 'Our Generation for Inclusive Peace', a global youth-led initiative working to make WPS and YPS more inclusive, intersectional and decolonised.