📅 22 – 26 April 2024
Online
This virtual, live, and interactive course is for anyone working in peace and security at home or abroad, including but not limited to policymakers and humanitarian aid practitioners who want to apply feminist approaches to peace, conflict, and security.
It will explore the concept of gendered human insecurity as related to war, disasters, political violence, and peace-building. Participants will learn to identify varying vulnerabilities by undertaking necessary analyses of existing and shifting social norms and the systems of power and abuse and operationalizing the human security approach. Bridging theory with practice, participants will also explore ways of operationalizing effective and ‘gender-conscious’ peacebuilding in policies, institutional practices, and in the pursuit of durable peace. This will include discussing implementation challenges, and critiques facing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda.
The course will include sessions about:
- Power, privilege, intersectionality, and vulnerability
- Shifting gender norms in conflict
- The Human Security Approach
- Key elements of a vulnerability assessment
- Sexual and gender-based violence in the context of conflict
- Introduction to the Women, Peace, and Security framework
- Effective national action plans
- Effective empowerment
- Operationalizing gender consciousness
- Meaningful inclusion in peace processes and peacebuilding