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...
WPS+GPS: Adding Gender to the Peace and Security Equation Political leaders regularly make grand, public statements about the importance of the Women, Peace and Security...
Women in Jihadist Organizations: Victims or Terrorists? Many scholarly works on women in jihadi organizations emphasize women’s lack of agency. Authors of these works argue...
Women Preventing Violent Extremism: Broadening the Binary Lens of "Mothers and Wives" by Fauziya Abdi Ali Violent extremist narratives and actions threaten to roll back...
Equipping and Training Modifications for Combat Arms Women Written by Ellen Haring In July 2016 at Fort Benning, Georgia, US women for the first time...
Hannah surveying the beautiful Georgian countryside Hannah Lynch grew up in the scenic coastal town of Newport, Rhode Island with her parents, younger brother, and...
18 December 2018 By: Alicia Luedke The irony is stark. Just as UN bodies, humanitarian agencies and civil society organizations started to “orange the world”...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 3, 2018 WIIS President, Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, Recognized as Gender Champion Dr. de Jonge Oudraat Pledges to Further Gender Parity...
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" width="640"]...
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...