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May 14, 2021

Women, Peace and Security Congressional Caucus Overview

The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Caucus was officially established in January 2020. The WPS Caucus seeks to ensure that the WPS goals stated in UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and in the Women, Peace and Security Act are actively considered national security and foreign policy priorities for ...

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Sahana Dharmapuri

Jolynn Shoemaker

January 26, 2021

Women, Peace & Security and the Digital Ecosystem: Five Emerging Trends in the Technology and Gender Policy Landscape

While technology offers immense potential for humanity, the digital ecosystem has also revealed a darker side - and it is closely intertwined with gender inequality. From lack of participation and access to gender-based bias, harassment, and abuse, women’s experiences in the technology space and wi...

Erin Cooper

January 18, 2021

Teaching the WPS Agenda in a Changing Security Landscape

In October 2020, Our Secure Future: Women Make the Difference partnered with the Dallaire Centre of Excellence for Peace and Security within the Canadian Defence Academy to examine how to advance understanding of the WPS Agenda in the professional military education context.

November 10, 2020

Advancing Gender Integration into Global Fragility Act Country Strategies

Our Secure Future, in partnership with the Alliance for Peacebuilding, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and the McCain Institute, organized a series of consultations with civil society groups and officials from the US Government in July and August 2020.

Sahana Dharmapuri, Pamela Tansey, Lexie Van Buskirk

August 12, 2020

Charting a New Course: Women, Peace and Security, and the Maritime Domain

Women are increasingly represented in higher positions internationally both in government institutions and in civil society. Similarly, women have been active in every aspect of the private sector, including in the maritime space.

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ISOA

June 10, 2020

Improved Security Outcomes: ISOA Fact Sheet

Partnering with the International Stability Operations Association (ISOA), Our Secure Future created this Fact Sheet on WPS for member companies.

If you want improved security outcomes, you have tools.

Kelly Case, Sahana Dharmapuri, Hans Hogrefe, Miki Jacevic, Jolynn Shoemaker, Moira Whelan, Edited by Erin Cooper

May 15, 2020

SECURITY FOR ALL. Applying the Women, Peace and Security Lens to the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the US

The COVID-19 pandemic does not respect borders or power. Armies, weapons, and fortifications will not destroy it. COVID-19 is a national security threat of a different kind. The United States and countries around the world need to reexamine what it takes for people to be safe.

April 13, 2020

Feminist Foreign Policy Poll Results

Our Secure Future polled 1,500 registered U.S. voters for their view on foreign policy decision makers, their representations in that area, and if they considered themselves to be feminist.

Erica Chenoweth, Conor Seyle, Sahana Dharmapuri

November 08, 2019

Women’s Participation and The Fate Of Nonviolent Campaigns | Policy Brief

Drawn from the Women in Resistance (WiRe) data set, this report is a first of its kind attempt to assess resistance movements on the degree to which they incorporate women into their political goals, their memberships, and their leadership.

Darfur women march in campaign against gender-based violence, by UN Photo/Albert González Farran

Stephenie Foster, Susan Markham, Sahana Dharmapuri

September 17, 2019

Operationalizing a Feminist Foreign Policy

Produced in partnership with Smash Strategies and based on interviews with experts working in this space, this policy brief grounds the concept of a feminist foreign policy within the US context, outlines connections to other national and international policy frameworks, and provides recommendations...

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