Research reports and analysis

This message guide outlines the key gender blindspots within the technology space and the opportunities to create a safer and more equal digital ecosystem through the application of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda.

This brief assesses the United States government’s progress on advancing the Women, Peace and Security agenda through the work of Women, Peace and Security Advisors and Gender Advisors.

This message guide outlines the importance of developing gender-sensitive AI policy, and includes a list of major AI risks and their gender impacts.

Originally published in 2018, this policy brief includes recent updates on the United States Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 and serves as a guide on the history, implementation, and funding of the act.

This policy brief provides an overview on financing Women, Peace and Security National Action Plans.

This brief examines the inclusion of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in the Biden Administration’s 2022 National Security Strategy, and compares it to the ways in which the Trump Administration’s 2017 National Security Strategy addresses the full participation of women in our national security ...

This brief outlines the main WPS developments from the Trump to the Biden Administration. There were some significant changes made by the Biden Administration pertaining to gender policy and coordination in general, which likely will also have implications for WPS going forward.

In no other country since World War II did the United States act as a quasi-government either directly or by proxy as it did in Afghanistan during its 2001-2021 civil and military engagement there.