Mohammed Shahrukh

Mohammed Shahrukh is a second-year Master of International Affairs student at Columbia SIPA concentrating in Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy. He is an Indian citizen who is passionate about strengthening democratic institutions, using truth and oral history as a tool to combat authoritarianism. Shahrukh is a senior writer with the Morningside Post and writes about the state of democracy across the globe. As a specialist in International Conflict Resolution, he is a supporter of localizing peacebuilding and strengthening the power of international human rights law frameworks. 

Shahrukh has worked in political data analysis for historic data frameworks for the Indian bureaucracy and judiciary. He also has experience in oral history archiving with the Partition Museum of India, collecting testimonies of the world’s largest forced population transfer in 1947. He is currently researching the strengthening of the global governance architecture at the intersection of human rights and mass violence.

Concentration: Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy

Specialization: International Conflict Resolution