On Friday, November 17, Consortium Director Carol Cohn spoke on the panel "Gender and Nuclear Security" at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's Third Annual on Gender and International Affairs, "Money, Power and Influence: The Gendered Dimensions of Geopolitics." Dr. Cohn's comments included highlighting that the symbolic gendering of nuclear weapons strategy preempts asking certain questions and pointing out that the language on nuclear weapons and nuclear war is abstracted and masculinized in that it normalizes talking about millions of casualities and immense human suffering without batting an eye.
Consortium Director Carol Cohn participated in the Ploughshares Fund's event "Women Talk Security, Nukes and Democracy" from May 24-25, 2017. The convening was part of Ploughshare Fund's Women's Initiative, "bringing together a network of women from both inside and outside the nuclear security field to build a new and inclusive national security and foreign policy platform. This platform will be rooted in a shared belief that security policies must be inclusive, incorporate perspectives not traditionally associated with national security, and recognize that individuals and local communities, not simply nation-states, are also key constituencies affected by these policies. Our goal is that all people in the network will learn from each other, and bring a common-sense security platform back into their work whether it be as an activist or in the policy community." (Ploughshares 2017 Annual Report)
Public Lecture: “Nuclear Chimeras: Britain’s Slow Death as a Nuclear Power."
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