Student Opportunities

The Gender, Peace, and Security Certificate provides Georgetown graduate students with a rigorous academic treatment of critically important but often overlooked issues related to gender dynamics and gendered experiences in conflict and peacebuilding. Our certificate equips students with the skills and expertise needed to meet this demand and advance inclusive approaches to policy and practice. It is not designed solely for those seeking careers in gender issues, but also for those whose careers will require an intersectional and comprehensive understanding of defense, development, and diplomacy theory and practice. 
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Current Georgetown undergraduate and graduate students play a vital role in the day-to-day work of the Institute. Our student assistants come from a variety of academic degree programs and are involved in a range of projects spanning research, communications, social media, and events. If you are an undergraduate or graduate student interested in working with GIWPS, visit the Join Our Team page to explore current opportunities.

Our dynamic campus events aim to engage students and invite them to hear from peacebuilders and thought leaders in the field of WPS. Check out our upcoming events.

Georgetown Women in International Affairs (GWIA) aims to develop quality leadership among Georgetown graduate students and to increase the visibility of women in international affairs. Through interactive programming, GWIA connects, empowers and prepares emerging women leaders. The student-led GWIA Executive Board spearheads the initiative’s planning, programming, and communications, working closely with our staff.

The DC Student Consortium on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) is a student-led organization that aims to — in collaboration with the US Civil Society Working Group on WPS (U.S. CSWG) — promote awareness of the implications of women and gender in security and foreign policy. The Consortium strives to ensure that policymakers around the globe are aware of the importance of gender issues in these disciplines and the need to institutionalize a feminist approach when solving critical issues surrounding peace and security.

Georgetown has an official GU chapter that collaborates with student chapters at universities across DC. All Georgetown students, undergraduate and graduate, interested in the WPS agenda are invited to join. To learn more about how to get involved, fill out an interest form or contact Arden Haselmann, GU Chapter President, at aah136@georgetown.edu.

This annual award aims to encourage and recognize an outstanding policy-focused essay addressing gendered dimensions of peace and conflict authored by a graduate student in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. 

Stay tuned for more information about our 2026 award.