Junru B. Email & Phone Number

Montreal, QC, CA

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Plans, organizes and coordinates all academic and professional conferences under the Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) initiative in the Montréal-Kingston regions, funded by National Defence Canada. Engages a group of undergraduate and graduate students in the organizational process. Supervised by Dr. Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Leading a team of student representatives in conference organization;
• Facilitating a student committee to review candidate applications, proposals and research in international security in the era of globalization;
• Coordinating with a range of universities in Québec to consolidate the conference timelines, logistical arrangements and student/professor participation;
• Coordinating with various institutions, including the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies and the International Association of Political Science Students, for academic and resource support.
• Developing all multimedia materials used for conference advertisement.

Montreal, Canada Area

• POLI 360 War and Peace: Security Studies;POLI 340 Middle Eastern Politics;POLI 450 Peacebuilding.
• Leading weekly seminars for 80-100 undergraduate students that facilitated discussions in relation to course topics;
• Grading examinations and research papers and provided relevant feedback;
• Holding weekly office hours to meet with students and provide one-on-one guidance on assignments and course materials.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Research Programmes:- Women in Peacekeeping and Peacekeeping-Intelligence, led by Dr. Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, Bishop's University;- Institution-building of the United Nations Human Rights Council, led by Dr. Vincent Pouliot, McGill University;- Civilian Surveillance in UN Peacekeeping-Intelligence, associated with the Centre for International Peace and.

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

• POL 241 International Affairs POL 360 Strategic Issues: Questions of War and Peace
• Graded and provided feedback for student assignments and examinations.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Main Areas of Coverage:- Emergency Nutrition for Children Under 5 and Pregnant & Labouring Mothers (PLMs);- Disaster Resilience for Pastoral and Agri-pastoral Communities in Rural and Peri-Urban Areas;- Program Record Management and Retention Oversight;- Ethiopia Country Communications and Social Cohesion Strategy Development.

Dushanbe, Tajikistan

• Accompanied young tuberculosis patients (6-14 year-olds) to daily activities;
• Organized fundraisers with local businesses, charity organizations and embassies. Specific donors included: Huawei, Embassy of P.R. China in Tajikistan, China Road and Bridge Corporation in Tajikistan, the Mother.
• Assisted stationed nurses with ensuring that all patients have received their daily dosage of medications;
• Organized storage units of non-medical inventories, such as non-perishable food items, book donations, and refilled gas tanks for program vehicles.

Yangon, Myanmar

• Conducted field-level program assessment in rural townships and villages;
• Liaised with funding institutions (the World Bank and the Department of Rural Development of Myanmar), as well as with partner organizations (Pact International and Cardno) on program progress;
• Delivered training in information communication and visual content collection to national staff members stationed at remote field offices;
• Developed a 5-day training curriculum and a facilitator’s guide on Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB) for grass-root level human rights activists in Myanmar (56 pages, with additional resource packs and evaluation.
• Assisted with the development of a winning program proposal to a UNDP-funded cash-for-work initiative in post-conflict Rakhine.
• Developed a 15-page program introduction of key information with regards to all aspects of the program implementation for new staff members, partnership institutions and donors.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

• Assisted with the implementation of two humanitarian initiatives (RCP and LTSII) that focused on the capacity-building of the national livestock economy, improving resilience in harsh weather conditions for remote.
• Traveled to remote provinces to monitor and evaluate program developments;
• Created a Program Handbook that summarized all completed Mercy Corps programs in Mongolia; Wrote press releases, weekly internal newsletters and blog posts on recent program progresses;
• Managed necessary communications among all Mongolian field offices and the U.S. headquarters.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Political Science

Master Of Arts - Ma, Political Science And Development

Thesis: High Aspirations and Low Expectations: Coping and Living in the Everyday Politics of Humanitarian Fieldwork

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Honors International Studies

With Minors in French and Political Studies; Honours Thesis: Cash-for-Work Program Planning in Complex Emergency Scenarios