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2025 Gender, Peace and Security Student Essay Awards

The Mobilizing Allies for Women, Peace and Security (MAWPS), a partner of Our Secure Future, awarded the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security a distinguished partner award to launch the third annual Gender, Peace and Security Student Essay Contest.

September 16,2025

Powering Profit Through Women’s Participation: Inclusive Energy in Fragile Regions

With efficient energy technologies at the forefront of private sector investment, this analysis examines why decentralized energy initiatives - especially those that meaningfully involve women - benefit not only investors, but also communities in fragile regions.

August 28,2025

AI Without Women Is a Risk: A Benchmark for Peace and Security

Examining the risk of blind spots in generative AI models, this blog piece discusses the benefits of a dedicated Women, Peace and Security specific benchmark in achieving more effective AI tools and better security outcomes.

July 30,2025

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Kelly Case

July 08, 2022

Awardee Spotlight June 2022

The Mobilizing Men as Partners for WPS July 2022 Awardee Spotlight goes to Mwada-Gana Foundation

Women from Mwada-Gana Foundation working together

June 30, 2022

A Decade in Review: The Women, Peace and Security Agenda Across the Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations

As the United States surpasses a decade of WPS policies since the Obama Administration launched the first U.S. National Action Plan (NAP) on WPS in December 2011, it is important to take stock of the monumental legislative and executive actions on WPS since.

June 21, 2022

TEDTalk Tuesday: H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Former president of Liberia, H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the first woman president of any African nation.

June 17, 2022

Our Secure Future Celebrates Juneteenth

While Juneteenth has only been recognized as an official federal holiday for two years, it has been widely celebrated since 1866, when the last enslaved people in the U.S. were freed after the Civil War.

Sarah Dawn Petrin

May 11, 2022

The Long Game for Ukraine's Children: Part 2

As a guest blog, the views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of Our Secure Future or One Earth Future.

By Sarah Dawn Petrin, Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council

May 05, 2022

Awardee Spotlight May 2022

Male Allies for WPS Awardee Spotlight 2022

Sarah Dawn Petrin

May 05, 2022

The Long Game for Ukraine's Children: Part 1

As a guest blog, the views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of Our Secure Future or One Earth Future.

Male Allies for WPS

May 05, 2022

Awardee Spotlight May 2022

Our Secure Future highlights the 2022 local peacebuilding organization awardees as part of our Mobilizing Men as Partners for Women, Peace and Security project. Enlightening and Empowering People with Disabilities in Africa (EEPD AFRICA)