Kim Beaulieu is a Visiting Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and a PhD student at the University of British Columbia studying peace operations and international organizations more broadly. Her research examines the politics of consent in United Nations missions, with a particular focus on how relations between the United Nations and host states shape mission outcomes. She holds an M.A. and a B.A. from the University of Montreal. Previously, she was also a Fox Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University and a predoctoral fellow at the Osaka School of International Public Policy at Osaka University.