By: Cira Mancuso
During my semester abroad in Santiago, Chile, I witnessed peaceful protests met with tear gas, water cannons, and rubber bullets. At night, the sound of my air conditioning was overpowered…
By: Briana Mawby and Alexandra Z. Safir
By Briana Mawby and Alexandra Z. Safir Eight weeks after taking office, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visited Washington, D.C. to meet with President Obama and to discuss the challenges and…
By: Aida Ross
Study global issues through a gender lens this Spring! You can use this blog post as a resource for making your course selections for the upcoming semester — click through…
By: Lauren Olosky
Hey Hoyas! Are you looking for Spring 2021 courses with a gender focus? Georgetown University offers a wide range of courses that examine the intersection of gender with war, history,…
Burundi organized its forth post-conflict general election in 2020, a year that also marks the 15th anniversary of the implementation of gender quotas in politics. Have gender quotas changed the…
By: Amanda Jessen
Standing in Nevruz Park in Diyarbakir, Turkey last March, I was immediately and acutely aware of the magnitude of the event playing out before me. Two years ago marked…
Co-hosted by the SAIS International Development Program and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security Gender inequality is one of the most pressing global development issues we face today:…
By Jane Mosbacher Morris Originally posted by TO THE MARKET in the HuffPost Impact Blog here. ARZU means “hope” in Dari, one of Afghanistan’s official languages. For the female employees of…