Spring 2024 Course Offerings
Gender, International Security and Development (MSFS 5600 / GOVT 5669; CRN: 38311)
Professor: S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana
Time: Monday, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
This class contextualizes gender issues and asks the question: how would we think about international peace, security, development approaches, and design intervention strategies if gender was treated as a central consideration in international affairs and peacebuilding programming? To answer this question, the class will explore both conceptual considerations related to gender and its practical application. This is a required course for the Gender, Peace and Security certificate.
Gender and Security Toolkit (SEST-6699; CRN: 46208)
Professor: Aapta Garg
Time: Tuesday, 5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
This advanced seminar will teach you concrete skills for ensuring gender is considered in peacebuilding, security, and development fields. The course will explore critical skills—from gender mainstreaming and gender analysis to gender-sensitive budgeting, research, monitoring & evaluation, and advocacy. The course will enable students to capably serve as gender focal points and learn how practitioners have successfully advanced gender in their diplomacy, development, and defense work. This is a required course for the certificate.
Diversity & Inclusion in CR/Dev (MSFS 7620 / GOVT 8404; CRN: 46063)
Professor: Carla Koppell & Claudia Youakim
Time: Thursday, 5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Untapped power: Leveraging diversity and inclusion in conflict resolution and development. A substantial body of research underlines the need to attend to diversity and inclusion in diplomacy, development and conflict resolution. Numerous international resolutions, national laws and plans, and declarations of commitment are in place calling for attention to and equal treatment of ethnic and religious minorities, women, youth, members of the LGBT community, people with disabilities, as well as socio-economically marginalized groups. Yet, realization of the commitments sorely lags behind the rhetoric. This seminar will review how diversity and inclusion are important to peace and prosperity, and discuss progress advancing the agenda and barriers to advancement. The class will also provide analytical and practical tools for advancing diversity and inclusion in the practice of diplomacy, conflict resolution and international development.
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (SEST 6697; CRN: 44327)
Professor: Robert U. Nagel
Time: Monday, 5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
This course examines the causes and consequences of conflict-related sexual violence as well as the legal frameworks and policies governments and international organizations pursue to prevent, mitigate, and respond to conflict-related sexual violence. Throughout the course, we will engage with gender, race, and class as fundamental organizing principles that shape the creation of legal and normative human rights frameworks as well as their practical application.
Gender, Climate and Security (PPOL-6406 1; CRN: 46429)
Professor: Marisa O. Ensor
Time: Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Gender dynamics, climate change, and security considerations are interconnected in complex and impactful ways. The real-world implications of the so-called “gender-climate-security nexus” for the promotion of gender equity, the mitigation of climate change, and the advancement of peace and security are increasingly being recognized. This seminar examines the key concepts, theories, and approaches underpinning the field of Gender, Climate and Security from scholarship, policy, and practice perspectives. The course will cover issues such as intersectionality, gendered climate security in the Global South, masculinities, ecofeminism and environmental justice, the securitization of the environment, climate (in)security and environmental disasters, migration as a climate change adaptation strategy, and environmental peacebuilding. Discussions and materials will also cover the emergence of legal and normative frameworks adopted by the UN system to address these issues. Case studies will illustrate how the connections between intersectional gender, climate and security are being experienced in specific locations across the globe.
Regularly Offered GIWPS Courses
Gender, International Security & Development: MSFS 571 or GOVT 570
Professor: GIWPS Affiliate Researcher Dr. S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana
This course aims to prepare students to work as diplomats, experts in peacebuilding, development, humanitarian relief, displacement, and post-conflict reconstruction, among other fields, with a knowledge of gender issues and the ability to apply a gender lens. The class contextualizes gender issues and asks the question: how would we think about international peace, security and development approaches and design intervention strategies if gender was treated as a central consideration in international affairs and peacebuilding programming? To answer this question, the class will explore both conceptual considerations related to gender and its practical application. Focusing on practical skills such as conflict-sensitive gender analysis, it will examine how to most effectively mainstream gender into policy making and programming related to international peace, security, and development.
Offered Fall and Spring semesters. *This is a mandatory, core course for the GIWPS graduate certificate. Priority registration is given to certificate students, but it is open to all graduate students.
Gender and Security Toolbox: MSFS 736 or GOVX 536
Professor: Aapta Garg
Many development and peace organizations are now required to have a gender-sensitive approach in order to receive funding from agencies such as USAID, DfiD, and OECD. Graduates who have a robust understanding of these issues may be more desirable applicants for future positions in security, diplomacy, or development both abroad and in the United States. This advanced seminar will teach you concrete skills for ensuring gender is considered in peacebuilding, security, and development fields. The course will explore critical skills – from gender mainstreaming and gender analysis to gender-sensitive budgeting, research, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy, and social impact analysis (beyond gender). The course will enable students to capably serve as gender focal points and learn how practitioners have successfully advanced gender in their diplomacy, development, and defense work.
Offered Fall and Spring semesters. *This is a mandatory, core course for the GIWPS graduate certificate. Priority registration is given to certificate students, but it is open to all graduate students.