Role of Higher Education in Shaping the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Mar 19, 2021 | D.C. Student Consortium on Women, Peace and Security
Online
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This event will include a panel discussion with several Washington D.C. area student leaders on the role of higher education institutions in increasing awareness of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and appreciation for a gendered approach to security and foreign policy. The D.C. Student Consortium on Women, Peace and Security is a student-led organization under the leadership of Dr. Shirley Graham, Director of the GWU GEIA at the Elliott School of International Affairs, that aims to — in collaboration with the U.S. Civil Society Working Group on WPS (U.S. CSWG) — promote awareness and education about the importance of integrating analysis of women and gender into security and foreign policy. This panel will discuss the importance of increasing awareness for the WPS agenda across wider educational audiences and multidisciplinary approaches to issues of gender, security, and foreign policy. Students have a unique role in promoting innovative thinking regarding gendered understandings of security within the civil society space as they advocate for new research and policy.

Who: D.C. Student Consortium on Women, Peace and Security

Where: Online

When: 19 March 2021  Time: 11:30 AM EST