The Consortium's Speaker Series brings an international roster of frontline practitioners, reflective activists and engaged scholars to University of Massachusetts Boston's campus. Their talks address the complex realities of women’s and men’s lives and livelihoods in conflict-affected areas, the challenges of trying to bring feminist commitments into security policy and humanitarian practice, and the ways in which gender analysis can and must transform resolutely “gender-blind” paradigms of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Information about Upcoming Speaker Events, Events Earlier This Year, and Past Speaker Events is available here. You can find videos or transcripts of these events, when available, under Consortium Lectures.
April 27, 2022
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April 20, 2022
March 23, 2022
What role do militaries and militarization play in creating the climate crisis? What are the links between militarization and environmental injustice? And why is it crucial to understand gender in order to connect the dots?
On March, 23 2022, the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom held a panel and workshop at the NGO CSW66 Forum to delve into these questions, and to explore ways that demilitarization could serve multiple goals: climate justice, gender justice, and inclusive and sustainable peace. The panel featured:
Neta Crawford, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Boston University
Claire Duncanson, Senior Research Scholar, Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, and member of the WILPF Academic Network
Carol Cohn, Director, Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, and member of the WILPF Academic Network
After the panel, workshop participants collaborated in small working groups, developing ways that demilitarization could be linked to finding sustainable and gender-just solutions to the climate crisis; they then returned to present their ideas in a plenary session.
A video of the panelists’ presentations can be found here and below.
To see the Miro boards created by the working groups, click here.
If you are interested in learning more about the connections between (De)Militarization, Gender and Climate Justice, you may want to explore this list of selected projects and resources.
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