Email: sarka.kolmasova@mup.cz
Šárka Kolmašová is the Head of the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Metropolitan University Prague (MUP), where she leads courses focused on global security, international human rights protection, and qualitative research methods. In the past, she worked at the Institute of International Relations (ÚMV), where she served as a research fellow from 2010 to 2014. She has also lectured at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and at the University of Hradec Králové. At the turn of 2021 and 2022, she was a visiting scholar at Suffolk University in Boston, where she focused on human rights and global governance. She also completed a research stay at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, where she worked on peacebuilding and human security in Latin America.
She has been the principal investigator of several grant projects funded by the Czech Science Foundation, including the research project Dynamics of Social Norms in International Order (2020–2022) and the postdoctoral project Humanitarian Military Intervention in the Context of the Responsibility to Protect (2013–2014). She has also contributed to international projects, such as the Network of Cooperation for the Research on Non-European Areas (RESAREAS), funded by the EU Operational Programme. The results of her research have been published in the monograph Advocacy Networks and the Responsibility to Protect: The Politics of Norm Circulation (Routledge, 2023) and the edited volume Norm Diffusion beyond the West: Agents and Sources of Leverage (Springer, 2023). In addition, she has published numerous articles in academic journals such as Journal of International Relations and Development, Globalizations, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, and Politics & Gender.
Alongside her research activities, she is a member of the editorial board of the Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (since 2017), and since 2023, a board member of the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS). She also leads the student club Human Rights Tribune (HuRT) at MUP and actively participates in working groups at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including the open working group on the implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security agenda.