Gender Equality in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

The Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL) is pleased to host a panel on the recent book by Dr Barbara K. Trojanowska (with “Foreword” by Cynthia Enloe), ‘Finding Gender Equality in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: From Global Promises to National Accountability’ (Rowman and Littlefield International 2022).

In this panel, you will hear from researchers and practitioners and participate in a live Q&A session, followed by a networking opportunity.

Dr Trojanowska is a researcher and women’s rights advocate. Her research and policy interests lie at the intersection of women’s rights instruments, global security, and contentious politics. She has published award winning scholarship for international journals as well as research-based reports for government agencies and not-for-profit organisations.

Her latest work, ‘Finding Gender Equality in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’ offers a systematic take on key gender equality debates within the UN’s Women, Peace and Security agenda, their implications, effects and paradoxes, in the case studies of UN Security Council, ASEAN and Pacific Islands Forum, and Governments of the Philippines and Australia. Dr Trojanowska provides not only an empirically rich, intersectional analysis of gender equality but also points to the structural change required for diverse women to be truly equal participants in the peace and security space.

Dr Trojanowska will be in conversation with Dr Elise Stephenson, a research fellow at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, and a 2022 Fullbright Scholar. Dr Stephenson is a researcher with extensive experience across diplomacy, national security, government, entrepreneurship, and diversity and inclusion.

Join us in person at the ANU to be part of this important conversation about women in political peace and security, including the opportunity for policy makers, practitioners and researchers to network.

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