Our Notes From The Field series has been designed to highlight the opinions and advice of Women, Peace and Security experts around the world. This edition, we speak with Visaka Dharmadasa, founder and chair of the Association of War Affected Women about her work and plans for the future.
On June 22nd, Our Secure Future and Nobel Women’s Initiative completed their first annual Designing Our Secure Future conference in which participants discussed ways to amplify the Women, Peace and Security agenda for the next decade.
In honor of Independence Day in the U.S., we’re highlighting four independent American women who, in their time, inspired and empowered future generations.
New America conducted an extensive study in which they found a lack of gender perspective among policymakers in national security, though it did not arise out of a lack of interest. Rather, the individuals they surveyed lacked the knowledge and confidence necessary to tackle gender – an issue that c...
Our Secure Future and the Nobel Women’s Initiative are proud to announce we will be co- hosting a conference titled Designing Our Secure Future. The gathering will take place June 20 to June 22, 2017 in Ottawa, Canada at the Strathmere Inn retreat center.
Our Notes From The Field series has been designed to highlight the opinions and advice of Women, Peace and Security experts around the world. In this series, we hope to bring attention not only to the tireless work they’ve been doing, but also to their plans for the future.
For anyone who has ever wanted to feel more connected to WPS, the (free!) Women, Peace and Security app from PeaceWomen is a fantastic resource. It offers something for everyone, at every level of personal and professional involvement.
Traditionally, men are assumed to be experts, the voice of authority, and the leader, while women with equal, and, frequently, greater competence and actual authority, are “second-guessed and (deemed) untrustworthy.
