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LSE appoints Angelina Jolie as visiting professor to teach Master’s pupils 

SANA MAHMOOD

HOLLYWOOD: London School of Economics (LSE) has informed regarding a new master’s course that Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie-Pitt will be teaching. The former foreign secretary Lord William Hague will also be joining LSE as a visiting professor to teach gender and human rights to Master’s students.

The one-year course will include modules on Women, Peace and Security, Gender & Militarization and Gender & Human Rights.

Incidentally in 2015 Angelina Jolie and Lord Hague had launched Centre for Women, Peace and Security at LSE that will be running the course.

Angelina Jolie while appreciating the creation of the master’s program hoped that other academic institutions would follow this example: “It is vital that we broaden the discussion on how to advance women’s rights and end impunity for crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as sexual violence in conflict”.

Lord Hague observed that the course would help underpin their work in preventing sexual violence in conflict, developing expertise and research to assist them in tackling the culture of impunity: “I look forward to working with the LSE students and my fellow visiting professors,” he said.

Hollywood star held she was looking forward to teaching and to learning from the students as well as to sharing her own experiences of working alongside governments and the UN. She has been a goodwill ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency and is presently one of its especial envoys.

Jolie-Pitt further said that it was vital that the discussion on how to advance women’s right was broaden and end impunity for crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as sexual violence in conflict.

It is pertinent to mention here that following a 2011 movie Angelina Jolie directed portraying the Bosnian war, back in 2012 she and Lord Hague had jointly created a global initiative to tackle sexual violence in conflict zones. Jolie-Pitt has been campaigning for long against use of rape as a weapon of war.

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.