Hack It! A Gender Perspective on the Small Island Developing States

With our most recent set of WPS micro-hacks in mind, we ask what might security mean for the women, men, girls, and boys living in the Small Island Developing States?

Dessima M. Williams, then Permanent Representative of Grenada to the UN, holds a press conference with Al Binger (off camera), Advisor to the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) group on Climate Change, to discuss their position ahead of the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, November 2011. UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras.

Our previous blog post contained a third and final Women, Peace and Security micro-hack from our Director, Sahana Dharmapuri.

Keep practicing your micro hacks by reading this article from author Simone Young at the Brookings Institute. What might security mean for the women, men, girls, and boys living in the Small Island Developing States? How might their security needs have changed in the face of recent environmental disasters?