Amber Peterman

Amber Peterman is an associate research professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work focuses on the intersection of gender and development, with an emphasis on social protection and gender-based violence. Peterman is a quantitative researcher and has collected large-scale data in over a dozen countries, published over fifty academic articles and consults for the United Nations and other stakeholders on gender and violence issues. Amber holds a PhD in public policy from UNC Chapel Hill.

"We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19," the authors write. Here women wearing masks take part in a protest against gender violence in Santiago, Chile, on December 6, 2019. The photo is a striking image of women wearing red masks lined up, each person holding a hand over one eye of the person in front of them. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares
Gender

Violence in Times of Coronavirus—The Ugly Truth

by Amber Peterman, Megan O’Donnell, Karen Devries, Alessandra Guedes

We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19—we need a world free from violence against women and children