May 29, 2019
Undergraduates Reflect on Meeting Hillary Clinton, Advancing Women’s Rights
By: GIWPS
Before former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a recent keynote address at Georgetown University, a student assistant from the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) had…
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April 9, 2019
Study Global Women’s Issues at Georgetown this Fall
By: Meredith Forsyth
Are you interested in learning more about women’s rights or international security, development, religion, or the environment? There are numerous undergraduate and graduate courses with a gender lens offered this…
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April 8, 2019
Georgetown Research Helps Win Court Case
By: Meredith Forsyth and Matt Moore
Since its launch in 2017, our Women, Peace and Security Index has been around the world, from London to Addis Ababa, Oslo to Canberra. Recently, the Index made an unlikely…
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April 2, 2019
Women’s Work in Fragile & Conflict-Affected Countries
By: Yvonne Quek
Only 4 in 10 women are in paid work, compared to 7 in 10 men, in fragile and conflict-affected states. Advancing women’s economic empowerment is central to gender equality, economic…
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March 28, 2019
5 Strategies to Increase Justice for Women
By: Jeni Klugman
Justice for women and girls is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda, with its commitment to gender equality (SDG 5) and its promise of peaceful, just and inclusive societies…
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March 25, 2019
Waving Goodbye to Dinosaurs
By: Monica McWilliams and Rebecca Turkington
In “Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs,” a new documentary about the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition (NIWC) airing on PBS March 25 - which features GIWPS executive director Amb. Melanne Verveer -…
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March 8, 2019
Women Leaders Come to Washington
By: GIWPS
A police captain from Sudan, a mayor from Iraq, and a state prosecutor from Ecuador—all women—were three of the nearly 90 other women leaders from around the world whom the…
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March 5, 2019
Georgetown’s Favorite Professors Discuss Gender
The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security asked some of Georgetown’s favorite professors about the role of women in defense, diplomacy and development. This is what they said:
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January 22, 2019
Do Quotas Actually Help Women in Politics?
By: Madison Schramm
This week, GIWPS executive director Ambassador Melanne Verveer judged a New York Times debate at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on the efficacy of gender quotas in politics…
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January 14, 2019
Gang Violence as Organized Violence: Implications for the WPS Index
By: Jeni Klugman and Mariana Viollaz
The Women, Peace and Security Index, introduced in 2017 by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), is the first index…
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