Dr. Stanislava Mladenova is a Global Fellow at Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. Previously, Stanislava was a Program Officer at the United States Institute of Peace’s Justice and Security Dialogue Program, where she implemented projects that established dialogue and cooperation between the police forces, gendarmerie, and local communities in six West African countries. Prior to USIP, Stanislava was the Program Manager for the Afghanistan Rising Initiative (ARI) at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, where she oversaw all daily activities in standing up the ARI Program. She also served as a Political Adviser to the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she was responsible for advising the NATO Ambassador on economic issues, governance, corruption, disaster management, gender, humanitarian assistance, and the recruitment of child soldiers. At NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Stanislava was responsible for aligning NATO’s organizational reform initiatives with the Alliance’s political and structural objectives. Stanislava’s work has brought her to Africa, Central and South Asia, North and South America, Western Europe, and the Balkans. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Stanislava is a former Fellow of the Irregular Warfare Initiative at the US Military Academy at West Point. She speaks English, Bulgarian and French, and has proficiency in Russian. Stanislava is the author of When Rambo Meets the Red Cross: Civil-Military Engagement in Fragile States.