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The event, titled “Current State of Play: U.S. Efforts to Advance Women, Peace and Security,” featured representatives from multiple U.S. government agencies.

On July 15, 2022, Our Secure Future and the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Security and Strategy hosted a hybrid event titled “Gender and Strategic Competition” streamed from the Atlantic Council Studio to discuss the essential interconnection of the Women, Peace and Security agenda to risi...

On July 12, 2022, Our Secure Future and its partner the Atlantic Council hosted a private event briefing Congressional staff on the gender implications of the conflict in Ukraine.

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

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.

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.

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

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.