Dr. Bree Akesson is the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Global Adversity and Wellbeing, Associate Director of the Centre for Research on Security Practices, and Associate Professor of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has worked for over two decades with children and families impacted by war and displacement in settings such as Chechnya, Northern Uganda, Palestine, Lebanon, and Afghanistan. Her program of research ranges from micro-level understandings of the experiences of war-affected families to macro-level initiatives to strengthen global social service workforce systems. Ongoing research projects include the perinatal experiences of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, the impact of climate change on families displaced by war, and integrated service access for refugee families. Dr. Akesson’s work has been cited over 1,000 times across a range of disciplines such as geography, health sciences, human rights, and psychology. Her latest book From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home—co-authored with Dr. Andrew Basso and published in 2022 by Rutgers University Press—was the inspiration for a United Nations report calling for the classification of home demolition as a war crime.