Events

Women with disabilities leading climate action

Jun 14, 2022 - Jun 16, 2022
New York

The 15th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD - COSP15) will be scheduled to take…

The Role of Masculinities in International Security and Peacekeeping

May 25, 2022 | Wilson Center
Online

Please join the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative, in collaboration with the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI), for a panel discussion on the…

Asia-Pacific Conference on the Promotion of Gender-Responsive Judicial Systems: Strengthening Formal Justice Systems’ Responses to Violence Against Women and Girls

May 23, 2022 | Asian Development Bank
Online

Join us for an interactive conference convening justice sector actors and other stakeholders to discuss approaches to strengthening the formal justice systems’ responses to violence…

Why Women Are Footing the Bill for Climate: Lessons from Bangladesh

May 19, 2022 | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Online

Over the past decade, more than two billion people around the world have been impacted by climate-related disasters. Exposure to climate risks causes considerable damage…

Visual Communications and Feminist Methodologies in Researching Peace

May 19, 2022 | London School of Economics
Online

This panel explores filmmaking and visual communication as a feminist methodology in seeking a gender-just peace.

Panellists will share their experiences of using film to centre…

Conversations on Feminist Peace

May 19, 2022 | London School of Economics
Online

This edited collection brings together conversations across borders and boundaries which explore plural, intersectional and interdisciplinary concepts of feminist peace. The book includes contributions from…

The Women, Peace and Security Focal Points Network

May 18, 2022 | Women, Peace and Security Focal Points Network
Geneva, Switzerland

Switzerland and South Africa are pleased to invite you to the fourth capital-level meeting of the Women, Peace and Security Focal Points Network, which will take place in…

Book Launch: Gender Violence in 21st Century Latin American Women's Writing

May 5, 2022 | Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, London Metropolitan University
Online

Governments in Latin America have consistently failed to protect women from all sorts of dynamics of violence, like male coercion, repressive policies on reproduction rights,…

Independent Commissions in Post-Conflict Societies: The Inclusion of Women

Apr 27, 2022 | School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin
Online

A peace settlement can provide the dispensation for a broader and more representative political process. It provides a unique opportunity to establish conditions for new…

Beyond the Vertical: What Enables Women to Mediate

Apr 27, 2022 | London School of Economics - Centre for Women, Peace, and Security
Online

Drawing from the experiences of WMC network members, this report demonstrates how a complex mix of factors such as regional and local networks, positive visibility,…

Social Vulnerabilities and Climate Change Adaptation: Gender Inequality, Poverty, and Exclusion

Apr 26, 2022 - Apr 29, 2022 | Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham

This workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities for integrating considerations of social exclusion into climate change discourse and policies, ensuring climate change adaptation strategies are…

WPS in North Africa & the Middle East Talk Series

Apr 23, 2022 | Natalia Bonilla
Online

The Women, Peace and Security in North Africa and the Middle East Talk Series is a three-part live virtual event featuring the life stories of…

Building Connections across the Gender, Climate and Security Nexus

Mar 23, 2022 | UN Women
online

Climate change and conflict do not exist in isolation from each other. The countries most exposed to climate change are disproportionately affected by conflict and…

Climate Shocks Exacerbating Humanitarian Crisis, Insecurity and Gender Inequality - Voices from the Sahel and Afghanistan

Mar 21, 2022 | UN Women
Online

As part of CSW66, UN Women is leading this side event which seeks to highlight the impacts of climate shocks and environmental hazards for women…

Women and Girls as Agents of Change in Climate-Related Conflict

Mar 18, 2022 | Georgetown Institute For Women, Peace and Security
Online

Women play a vital role in resolving climate-related conflict, with valuable expertise in natural resource management and climate resilience. On the sidelines of CSW66, join…

Climate Change and Environment Disaster Risk Reduction: Gender Equality at the Center of Solutions

Mar 14, 2022 | Commission on the Status of Women
Online

The sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 14 to 25 March 2022. Due to the continued impact of the COVID-19…

Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow

Mar 8, 2022 | UN Women
Online

The United Nations observance of International Women’s Day will be held virtually on 8 March, 10–11.30am UTC–5.

2022 Women's Peace Symposium

Mar 5, 2022 | Midlands Mediation Center
Midlands Mediation Center

Celebrating Women's Month - Midlands Mediation Center is hosting a Women's Peace Symposium to discuss peace in our communities.About this eventOur objective is to bring…

Women, Peace, and Security in the Time of COVID-19

Mar 3, 2022 | Simmons University International Relations Department
Boston

This hour-long guest lecture will feature three activists and academics working to address women’s experiences with violence in the United States and globally during the…

Alumni Seminar Series: Women, Peace, Security and International Law

Feb 23, 2022 | Queen Mary University of London, School of Law
Online

Alumni Seminar Series: Women, Peace, Security and International LawAbout this eventWe are pleased to invite you to our next Alumni Seminar Series with Professor Christine…

Gender and Environmental Peacebuilding: From Protection to Agency

Feb 3, 2022 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Online

As part of the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, join us in a Panel with:

Joanne Lebert, Chair, IMPACT (Canada)Caitl Ryan, Panelist, University of Groningen (Netherlands)María Martín de…

The Role of Gender in Environmental Peacebuilding

Feb 2, 2022 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Online

Gender has long been recognised as a crucial dimension of both peacebuilding and natural resource management. Relevant aspects include the (lacking) participation of women, differentiated…

Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Feb 1, 2022 - Feb 4, 2022 | EnPAx™ and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
online

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx™) and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) are delighted to announce that the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding will…

WPS in North Africa & the Middle East Talk Series

Jan 22, 2022 | Natalia Bonilla, Host of Womanhood & International Relations Podcast
Online

The Women, Peace and Security in North Africa and the Middle East Talk Series is a three-part live virtual event featuring the life stories of…

Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security Agenda 101

Jan 19, 2022 | Natalia Bonilla, Host of Womanhood & International Relations Podcast
Online

How can gender perspectives & feminist theory applied to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda can help us understand key disconnections between International and Human…

The Arms Trade Treat - A Tool to Advance Gender Equality and the 'Women, Peace, and Security' Agenda?

Jan 12, 2022 | Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy
Online

Important synergies exist between the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and the Arms Trade Treaty as both share similar and overlapping objectives. Above all, these…

Conference: The Transnational Anti-Gender Movement in the Wide Anti-Democratic Climate

Dec 16, 2021 | Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy
Online

There is a lack of knowledge and awareness among policymakers and activists about what the anti-gender movement is, how it operates, the risks it poses…

The Haleh Esfandiari Forum: A Conversation with Ambassador Melanne Verveer

Dec 16, 2021 | The Wilson Center
Online

The Haleh Esfandiari Forum presents a conversation with Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Executive Director of Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, and Former U.S. Ambassador…

Why Women's Lives Don't Matter: Ignoring Sexual Violence in Conflict

Dec 7, 2021 | LSE for Women, Peace, and Security
Online

Our panel will reflect on factors that give rise to sexual violence, persistent gaps in state and multilateral efforts as well as the effective prevention…

Extractive Industries, Violence and Corporate Criminality: Is There a Pathway to Global Justice?

Dec 2, 2021 | Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights
Online

Each speaker will each make a brief presentation, followed by a moderated discussion. The focus will be on the pressures experienced by states in the…