Women, Peace and Security

Jon Bellish

March 14, 2022

Incubating Peace: Women, Peace and Security Agenda Drives Gender Equality as Essential to Peace

Not just this month, as the world celebrates Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, One Earth Future Foundation continually prioritizes efforts to ensure that gender perspectives are taken into account in peace and security decision-making processes. While that shows up in all our prog...

March 09, 2022

Seeds of Peace from the ERA of Anorí

Meet the rural women that produce medicinal and self-care products, combining science and traditional knowledge in the mountains of Anori.

March 07, 2022

Turning Vision into Action: How Our Secure Future Advances Gender Equality in Peace and Security

Why, at One Earth Future and Our Secure Future, do we say that women and gender equality make the difference? Why view the world through a gender lens?

Sahana Dharmapuri

March 02, 2022

"The United States must help Afghan women and girls—even if it requires partnership with China"

Read OSF Director Sahana Dharmapuri’s compelling argument with former diplomat Eric Richardson that the US should consider engaging with China to help Afghan women in The New Atlanticist.

Hans Hogrefe

Sahana Dharmapuri

Cassandra Zavislak

February 10, 2022

Our Secure Future Policy Brief Focuses on the Inclusion of Women in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2022

Congress is currently discussing the inclusion of women in the current NDAA. Read the OSF brief summary of specific references to the inclusion of women in the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2022 (NDAA, P.L. 117-81).

Sahana Dharmapuri

January 10, 2022

Gender Equality Is Central to Technology and Democracy

Our Secure Future Director Sahana Dharmapuri recently published an OpEd in Foreign Policy in collaboration with OSF Fellow Jolynn Shoemaker urging policymakers that gender should not be sidelined from global technology governance efforts.

November 11, 2021

Our Secure Future and McCain Institute hosted Halifax Women Peace Fellows

Our Secure Future and McCain Institiute brought together 12 women peace fellows and key allies in the women, peace, and security space.

October 07, 2021

TEDTalk Tuesday: Gaby Barrios

Gaby Barrios shared in her TED Talk about the importance of gender analysis and why it’s bad business to use gender stereotypes in marketing.

August 23, 2021

Why Include Women in Peace and Security? Because it’s Effective

There has been a growing call for the need for women’s participation in all aspects of society- yet often this call focuses only on the gaps that currently exist- rather than on the impact of involving women.

June 17, 2021

Peace Field Peers Agree: Evidence-Based Practice Is Key

OEF and Alliance for Peacebuilding released a report last month detailing the findings of a survey of professional peacebuilders on their ideas about evidence-based practice in peacebuilding. The results suggest that despite the debate, the field has a pretty developed understanding of what evidence...

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