Bina D'Costa

Bina D'Costa is Professor of International Relations at Australian National University (ANU). She is an academic and a researcher. She specialises in children and conflict, gender, human rights and justice. She was Visiting Fellow at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford and the Global Justice Centre in New York. She has conducted extensive field research on war babies with a particular focus on Bangladesh's liberation war of 1971 and the partition of India. She pursued her doctoral studies in international relations at ANU.