School of Foreign Service

"Young people are realizing they don’t all have to work for a development agency or get involved with an NGO to engage in global development."

Reflections on milestones in women's leadership in the 21st Century. A publication from the Wilson Center, with an essay by Ambassador Melanne Verveer, among others.

The Honorable Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN Special Envoy of the Secretary General for the Great Lakes Region of Africa.

This document was prepared as part of an ongoing partnership between the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations in New York.

When women participate in peace processes, “often overlooked issues such as human rights, individual justice, national reconciliation, economic renewal are often brought to the forefront,” former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said today at Georgetown.

When women progress, all of society makes progress. That is true in Afghanistan and around the world. The message out of Oslo this weekend was that we must continue to enable and empower the women of Afghanistan, who, as Mrs. Ghani noted, have a significant role to play in "returning peace and prosperity to Afghanistan."

Co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of the UAE to the UN, UN Women, and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, this discussion is the second in a series of panels on women, peace and security in support of the Global Study on the Implementation of Security Council resolution 1325.

May Sabe Phyu, or Phyu Phyu as she is affectionately known, is a devoted advocate for women’s empowerment and peacebuilding in Myanmar.

The public event for the launch included comments from former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on "The Power of Women's Economic Participation," and a panel discussion moderated by Ambassador Verveer on the same theme.

On October 23rd, the Institute co-hosted a panel discussion on Islam, Gender and Democracy with Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. The panel consisted of Ambassador Verveer, Jose Casanova and Jocelyne Cesari.

On September 26, the Institute hosted Her Excellency Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Finance Minister of Nigeria and former managing director of the World Bank, for a lecture and discussion on "Advancing Safe Access to Education for Girls in Nigeria and Beyond."

Nigeria is now the largest economy in Africa, having surpassed South Africa, and has enormous potential for future growth and leadership in Africa. However, without educating its young people, this potential will stagnate.

Report by 2014 GIWPS Research Fellow Samyah Alfoory. This paper takes a gendered analysis of the case of Bahrain's 2011 uprising beyond examining women's role in the uprising. It analyzes not only women in the grassroots, pro-democracy and human rights movement, but also women who occupy an official capacity and who act to further the regime's anti-democratic and violent actions.

Report by Heather Orina. The purpose of this study is to examine how women and men negotiate conflict resolution decision-making in their private lives, a largely overlooked aspect of gender norms processes within Resolution 1325 literature, and to investigate connections between such processes within the private sphere and Resolution 1325 implementation in the public sphere.

Roslyn Warren, a research fellow at the Institute, is currently based in Zambia conducting research on land rights.