Our Secure Future

Guest author Jeanne Hoerter discusses the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program and how it supports the Women, Peace and Security framework.

In July, Our Secure Future Director Sahana Dharmapuri participated in the 2023 Sasakawa USA Emerging Experts Delegation (SEED) Program. The 2023 SEED Program focused on Women, Peace and Security (WPS).

A discussion of how artificial intelligence can amplify gender biases and the need to promote the Women, Peace and Security agenda in the digital space.

On May 5, 2023 Our Secure Future presented at Alliance for Peacebuilding’s PeaceCon 2023.

On June 20, 2023 Our Secure Future and the McCain Institute hosted an online event, “Women, Wagner Group, and War Crimes– Applying a Gender Lens to Russian Aggression in Ukraine and Syria,” to discuss how a Women, Peace and Security lens is essential to the conflict in Ukraine. Over 100 participants...

OSF hosts luncheon on the final day of the 5th Capital-Level Meeting of the WPS Focal Points Network.

OSF hosts reception at the US Capitol to kick off the UN Women, Peace & Security Focal Points Network 5th Capital-Level Meeting.

On May 25, 2023, Captain Cecilia Erzuah, a Ghanaian peacekeeper, received the 2022 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award.