Leadership and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

Oct 22, 2020 | NYUSPS Center for Global Affairs
Online
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In September 2017, UN secretary-general António Guterres launched a strategy to achieve a long-overdue goal of gender parity among staff across the United Nations (UN). This event examines progress in meeting this goal with a specific focus on challenges to increasing women in the senior leadership roles in the UN’s peace and security institutions, and we discuss why this goal is important for the quality of the UN’s efforts to resolve conflict and build peace.

The event is also the occasion for the launch of the UN Senior Appointments Dashboard, a resource created by the NYU Center for International Cooperation and the NYU Center for Global Affairs to track historical trends by gender, national origin, and other characteristics, in the UN’s top appointments—and changes to current appointments in real-time. Preliminary findings from the dashboard will be shared.

A panel of former leaders of UN peacekeeping missions, current USGs, researchers, and the ambassadors of Ghana and the State of Qatar, co-chairs of the Group of Friends of Gender Parity, will discuss the implications of the findings.

 Who: NYUSPS Center for Global Affairs

Where: Online

When: 22 October 2020  Time: 01:15 PM EDT