Email: sarka.kolmasova@mup.cz
Šárka Kolmašová is the Deputy Head of the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Metopolitan University Prague, where she also gives lectures in the field of global security and international protection of human rights. Since 2014, she is a member of the Peacebuilding and Postwar-Reconstruction Commission of the International Peace Research Association. In 2008-2012, she was a research fellow of the Institute of International Relations, Prague. Furthermore, she was an external lecturer of the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University in Prague, and the Department of Political Science at the University of Hradec Králové. In 2012-2015, she was the head researcher of the post-doctoral project funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR), entitled Significance of Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: the Case of Libya and Syria. In the past, she was participating in several other research projects, including the Network of Cooperation in the Field of Non-European Areas (RESAREAS), funded by the European Social Fund in the CR. Within this project, she was a short-term visiting scholar of the Canter for Peace Research at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. In her research, she is focusing on humanitarian interventions and the concept of the Responsibility to Protect, armed conflicts resolution, and particularly protection of civilians in serious crisis situations. In addition, she is doing research on the Czech Foreign Policy of the Czech Republic and especially its multilateral dimension. She is the author of the book Metamorphoses of the Humanitarian Intervention Concept: from Rwanda to Libya (2016) and the co-author of the collective monograph Czech Republic in international organizations (2015). Together with Petr Drulák, she co-edited the publication Non-Western Reflection on Politics, including her own chapter on the Zapatistas movement in Mexico. She further published several academic articles in peer-reviewed journals, including recently published: „Inconsistencies between Libya and Syria? Pragmatic Revisionism and the Responsibility to Protect“ (in Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, 2016). Together with Kateřina Krulišová she is preparing a research article on legitimization strategies through sexual(ized) violence in military interventions implemented in Libya and Mali.