Spring 2023 Course Offerings
Gender, International Security and Development: GOVT 5669-01 (CRN 38311) / MSFS 571-01 (CRN 39105)
Professor: Seniha Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana
Time: Monday, 2:00-4:30pm
This gateway 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. This is a required course for the certificate.
Gender and Security Toolbox: MSFS 736 (CRN 41986) / GOVT 5636 (CRN 42978)
Professor: Karine Lepillez
Time: Monday, 5:00-7:30pm
This advanced seminar will teach you concrete skills for ensuring gender is considered in peacebuilding, security, and development fields – from gender mainstreaming and gender analysis to gender-sensitive budgeting, research, monitoring & evaluation, and advocacy. This is a required course for the certificate.
Diversity and Inclusion in Conflict Resolution and Development: MSFS 708 (CRN 40737)
Professors: Carla Koppell, Claudia Youakim
Time: Thursday, 5:00-7:30 pm
This seminar will review how diversity and inclusion are important to peace and prosperity, and discuss progress advancing the agenda and barriers to advancement.
Conflict-related Sexual Violence: SEST-697 (CRN: 44327)
Professor: Robert U. Nagel
Time: Monday, 6:30-9:00pm
This course examines the different dimensions of conflict-related sexual violence. It will explore the narratives surrounding wartime rape, cross-national and case study evidence, and legal frameworks and policies that governments and international organizations pursue to prevent, mitigate, and respond to conflict-related sexual violence.
Gender and Terrorism: SEST-544 (CRN: 43616)
Professor: Devorah Margolin
Time: Thursday, 5:00-7:30pm
This course will explore gender dynamics in radicalization, conflict (as victims and perpetrators), and disengagement. It will also explore how groups use gender dynamics to recruit, mobilize, and utilize men and women for their own strategic advantages.
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: Karine Lepillez
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.
Gender and Terrorism: SEST 544
Professor: Mehreen Farooq
From women of the Provisional Irish Republican Army to the all-female suicide bombing units of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, women have played critical roles in terrorist organizations across the globe for decades. Despite their prevalence, the gendered differential approaches to recruitment, processes of radicalization, and the roles that women can play in promoting peace and security is less understood. From theoretical foundations to policy implications, this course will address pressing threats to national and international security with an often-overlooked gender lens. We will explore, from a policymaker and practitioner’s perspective, how violent actors manipulate social, economic, political, ideological, or psychological factors to recruit both men and women. The course will also examine women’s role in stabilization efforts in fragile, or violent extremism affected environments. We will consider toxic masculinity, constructive male engagement, and capacity building measures to strengthen women’s roles in preventing violent extremism.
Offered Fall semesters. *This course also counts toward the Terrorism and Substate Violence concentration for SSP students.
Previously Offered GIWPS Courses
Inclusive Negotiation & Meditation (module) – MSFS 726
Professor: GIWPS Distinguished Fellow Carla Koppell
New research finds that inclusive negotiations that bring in a wider range of stakeholders, including women and civil society, can lead to enhanced outcomes–but how can this finding inform practice? This module will investigate how the diverse identities and interests of mediators, negotiators, and citizens affect the process and outcome of negotiations. It will discuss strategies and approaches to broadening participation in talks and also address difficulties broadening the range of stakeholders at the table. The module will particularly focus on exploring case studies of peace negotiations from around the world, but it will also touch on trade negotiations; labor negotiations; and negotiations within organizations. Students will develop skills including setting up and structuring talks, building diverse teams, engaging stakeholders, and negotiating across cultures.
Gender and Foreign Policy (module) – MSFS 724
Professor: Susan Markham
Women are no longer “hidden figures” in foreign policy. New laws, including in the US, require that defense, diplomacy, and development efforts include a gender lens. We will begin this module by exploring the under-examined roles of women in the US, from World Wars to present day. We will also assess the development of feminist foreign policy by Sweden and Canada, as well as trends towards gender sensitive foreign policy around the world. Throughout the module, we will challenge conventional notions of women’s roles and explore how masculinity and femininity pervade foreign policy decision-making.
Women, Peace and Security (module) – MSFS 707
Professor: Jacqui O’Neill
This course will address women’s experiences in conflict-affected and post-conflict settings and the impact of women’s participation in conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, mitigating humanitarian emergencies, political transitions, governance, and economic recovery. It will equip students with a strong academic foundation and policy/practice-oriented toolkit for their future professional endeavors–including an understanding of how to mainstream gender across sectors.
Women’s Empowerment in MENA – MSFS 693
Professor: Dr. S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana and Claudia Youakim
Time: Wednesdays, 5:00-7:30pm