‘Professor’ Angelina Jolie Nervous Before Her First Lecture At LSE

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who co-founded the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative with Lord Hague, is set to begin her stint as a guest professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) – Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She admitted to having butterflies just ahead of her first lecture, where she will share her experience in the field and how sexual violence is used as a tool of war.

The actress and filmmaker will be a visiting faculty for “Women, Peace and Security” – a one-term course taken by master’s students from a range of postgraduate disciplines at LSE.

As a visiting professor, she will deliver guest lectures to students, participate in public events and workshops and undertake her own research. From September this year, students will be able to pursue their master’s in the subject – the first-of-its-kind anywhere in the world. According to LSE, the master's course is intended to “develop strategies to promote gender equality and enhance women’s economic, social and political participation and security.

Jolie, as a part of the special envoy of the United Nation High Commission for Refugees, launched a campaign with Lord Hague, when he was foreign secretary, against rape in war zones five years ago.