Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies

Nicolas Jude Larnerd is the senior program manager for the Humanitarian Agenda program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a global fellow for the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at the Watson Institute of Brown University. Larnerd's expertise focuses on humanitarian access, sanctions, countering the financing of terrorism, and gender. Prior to CSIS, Larnerd worked in the Gender and Human Rights Branch at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), supporting gender-based violence response and data analysis. Larnerd brings two years of field experience from Project Elea at Eleonas Refugee Camp in Greece, responding to the migration and COVID-19 crisis. Larnerd earned an MA in human rights and democracy from the Università di Padova and a BA in history from UCLA.

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Larnerd, Nicolas Jude; Yayboke, Erol; Gigauri, Giorgi (2023) "Iraq 20 Years After the Invasion: Humanitarian, Displacement, and Climate Change Challenges" Commentary, Center for Strategic and International Studies. 20 March 2023.

Flacks, Marti;  Burke, Lauren; and Larnerd, Nicolas Jude (2023) "The Taliban's Increasing Restrictions on Civil Society and Aid Organizations" Critical Questions, Center for Strategic and International Studies. 16 February 2023.

Larnerd, Nicolas Jude; Ballard, Sierra; and Kurtzer, Jacob (2022) "Humanitarian Response and Climate Resilience in Puerto Rico", Critical Questions, Center for Strategic and International Studies. 7 December 2022.

Kurtzer, Jacob; Abdullah, Hareem Fatima; and Larnerd, Nicolas Jude (2022) "The Global Humanitarian Overview 2022: Climate, Gender, and Humanitarian Response", Critical Questions, Center for Strategic and International Studies. 27 January 2022.

Calzati, Fabio; Larnerd, Nicolas Jude; and Lombardi, Federica (2021) "Recent regional developments in human rights and democratisation during 2020: A focus on the European Union", 5 Global Campus Human Rights Journal: Volume 5, No 2.