Sanjida Amin

Sanjida Amin

CDSN Post-Doctoral Fellow

Queen鈥檚 University

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Sanjida Amin is the CDSN Postdoctoral Fellow (2025鈥2026) at the Centre for International and Defence Policy (CIDP) at Queen鈥檚 University. She is currently completing her PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto, where her research focuses on foreign sponsorship of insurgent groups, insurgent-state relations, and the international dimensions of civil war.

Her book project examines how external support from foreign states shapes internal conflict dynamics, particularly by driving insurgent fragmentation during peace negotiations. Her broader research interests include international peacebuilding, alliance politics, and Canadian foreign and defense policy. Her current postdoctoral project investigates how U.S.-Canada security relations influence Canada鈥檚 evolving engagement with UN peacekeeping, situating this within the broader context of multilateralism and shifting global security priorities.

Sanjida鈥檚 research has been supported by Fulbright Canada, the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC), and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. She aims to contribute to more effective peacebuilding and mediation strategies in protracted conflicts, as well as to informed debates on Canadian international security policy.

Current Interests

  • International Security
  • Conflict and Conflict Resolution
  • Foreign Policy

Recent Publications

  • Amin, Sanjida, and Alexander Pelletier. 鈥淭aking Armed Group Fragmentation Seriously in Multilateral Interventions.鈥 African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review (accepted)

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