Sabina Babaieva

Sabina Babaieva is a third-year student studying Ethics, Politics, and Economics with a concentration in Peace & Conflict Studies. Her coursework bridges security studies, cognitive science, and peacebuilding theory. At the Hudson Institute, she co-authors a year-long Alternative Futures project on China–Russia–North Korea alignment, drawing on Mandarin, Russian, and Ukrainian sources to analyze strategic dynamics. She has also served as a research assistant at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, where she digitized and analyzed Soviet Economic Archives data. 

Sabina previously conducted fieldwork with the Youth Peace Ambassadors Network in Kosovo and Georgia on transitional justice and generational trauma, where she began experimenting with methods such as Social Network Analysis. She writes widely on security, history, and human rights, speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, and intermediate Mandarin, and is passionate about using data-driven approaches to inform innovation in peacebuilding research and policy. Sabina is from Kupyansk, Ukraine.