Kim Beaulieu

Kim Beaulieu is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the strategic interactions between the United Nations and host countries during state-building processes. She looks more specifically at why and how host state consent evolves throughout a peace operation, and seeks to theorize these shifts. Her doctoral work is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Department of National Defence’s MINDS program. From June to August 2025, she was a visiting researcher at Osaka University's OSIPP. In 2024, she did an internship with the United Nations Department of Peace Operations, where she supported rule of law and justice initiatives in post-conflict settings. She was previously a doctoral scholar with the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security, through which she organized roundtables and wrote policy briefs on key WPS issues. She holds an MA and a BA from the University of Montreal, where she received the Killam Fellowship from Fulbright Canada to study for a semester at American University.