Assistant Professor
Section of Strategic Studies
Agnieszka.Missala@uw.edu.pl
Dr. Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala – Assistant professor at the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw; Chairman of the scientific project Prevention of Mass Violations of Human Rights, financed by Poland’s National Scientific Centre; participant in the European Project “NOHA – Network on Humanitarian Assistance” and EU Non-Proliferation Consortium; Deputy Director for Academic Research and International Cooperation (2008-2012); Analyst at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (2006-2008). Participant in Youth Leadership Program at the University in Chengdu (March 2017), Participant in Georgetown Leadership Seminar at the Georgetown University in Washington – Jan Karski Educational Foundation scholarship (October 2016). Participant in the V4 Task Force on the Prevention of Mass Atrocities in cooperation with Budapest Centre for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (2016-2017).
Areas of research interest include: human rights, international humanitarian law, mass atrocities, humanitarian assistance. Teaching activities: international protection of human rights, human rights in international relations, international humanitarian law, international crimes.
Main books: Human Rights in Polish Foreign Policy after 1989, The Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warszawa 2006. Rafał Lemkin – A Hero of Humankind, The Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw 2010 [coed. with S. Dębski]; Civilians in Contemporary Armed Conflicts: Rafał Lemkin’s Heritage, Warsaw University Press, Warszawa 2017.