Lauren Gould

Lauren Gould is an Assistant Professor in Conflict Studies at Utrecht University and the director of the Intimacies of Remote Warfare (IRW). IRW is an evidence-based research programme that aims to inform academic, public and policy debates on the intimate realities of the remote wars waged in our name. One of the core ‘intimacies’ the IRW works on is civilian harm. Remote warfare is only remote and riskless for some: so-called ‘precision’ airstrikes often lead to mass civilian harm. Therefore, the asymmetrical suffering goes unaccounted for and this undermines democratic control over the wars waged in our names. Lauren Gould is a lecturer in the Centre for Conflict Studies at Utrecht University, a research fellow for the Centre for Global Challenge, co-founder of the IOS Contesting Governance platform, Public Engagement fellow and coordinator of the Summer School ‘Contemporary Conflict Analysis’. She became a member of the board of The Nuhanovic foundation in 2020.