In April 2018 Alek Minassian drove a van into a crowd of people in Toronto, killing ten people. A few minutes before, he had posted...
For over 30 years, Women In International Security (WIIS) has worked to advance the role of women in national and international security. While much progress...
The international community has taken a strong stance against conflict-related sexual violence, deeming it a war crime. However, international actors are paying scant attention to...
By Luisa Ryan and Shannon Zimmerman At the UN Peacekeeping Defense Ministerial Conference, Canada announced the launch of the Elsie Initiative on Women in Peace...
By Velomahanina T. Razakamaharavo, Luisa Ryan, and Leah Sherwood. United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 expressed a global commitment to the Women, Peace, and...
While the cybersecurity industry will require approximately six million workers to meet its projected job demand by 2019, many positions will remain unfilled without more...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, November 14, WIIS President Chantal de Jonge Oudraat was honored as a Gender Champion at the annual Ploughshares Fund conference on...
Written by John Arnold, Sarah Kenny, Hannah Lynch and Nadia Crevecoeur View the PDF: Women and the 2018 US Mid-term Elections [caption id="attachment_15611" align="aligncenter"...
Written by Nadia Crevecoeur In recent years, many think tanks have begun to recognize the importance of diversifying their staff and recruiting and retaining more...
By Karin Johnston, WIIS Blog Editor The topic is “Is the Future Democratic? Democracy, Security, Technology,” the gala conference in Berlin a celebration of fifteen years...
When discussing women in predominantly Islamic societies, the prominent narrative in the Western media tends to focus on oppression: the lack of opportunity, of advancement,...
Meet Sarah Kenny Written by: Nadia Crevecoeur “WIIS has opened my eyes to a career path that will enable me to combine my passions...
WIIS President, Chantal De Jonge Oudraat, visited Australia last month to deliver a keynote address at the Women In National Security Conference. She also spoke...
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about how many women are presently working in the cyber security field. A figure of eleven percent...
In Support of Equity By Sarah Kenny Montanasuffragettes. 2018 Women’s March in Missoula, Montana. Red sign with white letters, “Equal means equal.” To best support female...
Stabilizing U.S.-Chinese Relations Written by: Amanda Spencer The relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China is more fragile than at any...