Events


"Gender, Conflict, and Peacebuilding" Course

Sep 7, 2022 - Sep 9, 2022 | Swisspeace and the University of Basel
kHaus, Basel, Switzerland

This course examines the relationship between gender, violent conflict, and peacebuilding. Participants will consider how war and militarism are highly gendered phenomena that impact men…


Request for Applications (RfA)- Peace Scholar Fellowship 2023-2024

Sep 1, 2022 - Oct 6, 2022 | United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

USIP seeks applications from Ph.D candidates with high-quality, policy relevant research that will deepen understanding about conflict management, peacebuilding and other applicable security-related studies. USIP…


Getting a Good Deal: Negotiating Extractive Industry Contracts

Sep 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2023 | National Resource Governance Institute
online

Many resource-rich countries negotiate complex contracts to govern mining, oil, or gas projects. Despite the critical importance of these contracts in determining the risks and…


#SheLeads4Peace Summer School

Aug 1, 2022 - Jul 12, 2022 | United Nations Institutes for Training and Research
Geneva, Switzerland

Recognising the importance of having women in positions of leadership and the critical role that women must play in efforts to promote stable and lasting…


The Gender Studies Conference – Learn, Engage, Develop

Jul 29, 2022 - Jul 31, 2022 | ICGSS Conference
Dublin, Ireland

The topics of gender equality and representation, socio-political and cultural understanding, legislative and social efforts to combat discriminatory practices, the rights of the LGBT community…


ICWPS 2022: 16. International Conference on Women, Peace and Security

Jul 28, 2022 - Jul 29, 2022 | World Academy of Science, Engineering, and Technology
Zurich, Switzerland

International Conference on Women, Peace and Security aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research…


Beyond Generations: A Multi-Generational Conversation on the Past, Present, and Future of Women in Environmental Law and Policy

Jul 26, 2022 | ELI
Online

The field of environmental law has seen many changes throughout the past decades. There have been demonstrable legal and policy victories for cleaner air and…


Jamaica to Host Regional Workshop on Gender-Based Violence Policing

Jul 18, 2022 - Jul 22, 2022 | Jamaica Constabulary Force, the Inter-American Development Bank, UN Women and the European Union
Kingston, Jamaica

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), UN Women and European Union will host the Regional Workshop on Operational Command of Gender-Based Violence…


Triennial Women's International League of Peace and Freedom

Jul 16, 2022 - Jul 24, 2022 | Women's International League of Peace and Freedom
Online

The theme of the 33rd International Congress is Making Connections: Environment, Social Justice, and Demilitarisation for Feminist Peace.
The agenda includes formal decision-making meetings on the…


Linking SDG 16 and SDG 5 in a Time of Crisis: Women in Peacebuilding and Justice

Jul 14, 2022 | The Republic of Austria and Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York and YouTube livestream

This year’s High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will be held from 5th to 15th July.

Following the review of SDG16 (peaceful, just and…


Summer Institute in Northern Ireland: Lessons in Community Peacebuilding

Jul 8, 2022 - Jul 18, 2022 | McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies
Northern Ireland, UK

The summer institute will focus on the enormous achievements of local activists and agencies in bringing Armagh to its current state of peace, through years…


Environment of Peace — Security in a New Era of Risk (US Report Launch)

Jun 29, 2022 | Wilson Center, Environmental Change and Security Program
online

The world is entering a new era of risk as acute environmental crises are compounded by a darkening security horizon. Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution,…


RISE Call for Proposals 2022 to Address GBV in Environment and Climate-Related Programming

Jun 22, 2022 | IUCN and USAID
Online

Hosted under the Gender-based Violence and Environment Linkages Center (GBV-ENV Center) webinar series, a component of IUCN and USAID's partnership on Advancing Gender in the…


How Climate Change Undermines Security in Iraq, Africa and India

Jun 17, 2022 | Clingendael Institute
The Hague, Netherlands and online

On 17 June (14.45 - 16.00 CET) the Planetary Security Initiative (PSI) is organising a public event on the climate-related security risks and opportunities for environmental…


The Impact of Violence Against Women on Central American Migration

Jun 15, 2022 | The Wilson Center
Online

Gender-based violence remains one of the most significant yet overlooked drivers of out migration across Central America and the broader region.

Violence against women and girls…


Launch of the 2022 Global Peace Index

Jun 15, 2022 | Alliance for Peacebuilding and Institute for Economics and Peace
Washington, DC and online

On Wednesday June 15th at 10am ET, please join AfP for the public launch of the Institute for Economics and Peace’s (IEP) 2022 Global Peace…


Women with disabilities leading climate action

Jun 14, 2022 - Jun 16, 2022
New York

The 15th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD - COSP15) will be scheduled to take…


Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability Biennial Conference 2022

Jun 1, 2022 - Jun 3, 2022 | Richard J. Chacon and Yamilette Chacon
Seville, Spain

Over millennia, warfare, environmental degradation, and social inequality have brought much suffering to humankind. In an effort to facilitate interdisciplinary cross-fertilization, WESIPS brings together a…


The 2nd Annual International Conference on Environmental Conflict and Cooperation

May 31, 2022 - Jun 1, 2022 | University of California, Davis
Berkeley, CA and online

Environmental ideas that have been crystalizing in the last five decades are now coming to a turning point. The accumulation of scholarly work on the…


Stockholm+50 Symposium on the Law for Security and Sustainable Development

May 30, 2022 | Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre, Stockholm University, Lund University, Environmental Law Institute, and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Stockholm, Sweden and online

The UN meeting Stockholm+50 provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the many advancements in law for security and sustainable development since the first UN…


The Role of Masculinities in International Security and Peacekeeping

May 25, 2022 | Wilson Center
Online

Please join the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative, in collaboration with the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI), for a panel discussion on the…


Asia-Pacific Conference on the Promotion of Gender-Responsive Judicial Systems: Strengthening Formal Justice Systems’ Responses to Violence Against Women and Girls

May 23, 2022 | Asian Development Bank
Online

Join us for an interactive conference convening justice sector actors and other stakeholders to discuss approaches to strengthening the formal justice systems’ responses to violence…


2022 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development

May 23, 2022 - May 25, 2022 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stockholm, Sweden and online

SIPRI is proud to host the 2022 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development on the theme ‘From a Human Security Crisis Towards an Environment of…


Why Women Are Footing the Bill for Climate: Lessons from Bangladesh

May 19, 2022 | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Online

Over the past decade, more than two billion people around the world have been impacted by climate-related disasters. Exposure to climate risks causes considerable damage…


Visual Communications and Feminist Methodologies in Researching Peace

May 19, 2022 | London School of Economics
Online

This panel explores filmmaking and visual communication as a feminist methodology in seeking a gender-just peace.

Panellists will share their experiences of using film to centre…


Conversations on Feminist Peace

May 19, 2022 | London School of Economics
Online

This edited collection brings together conversations across borders and boundaries which explore plural, intersectional and interdisciplinary concepts of feminist peace. The book includes contributions from…


Launch Event: WWF-adelphi Report "The Nature of Conflict and Peace"

May 18, 2022 | World Wide Fund for Nature and adelphi
online

Environmental degradation and biodiversity loss are important drivers of insecurity and conflict around the world, and increasingly impact global peace and security. This nature-security nexus…


The Women, Peace and Security Focal Points Network

May 18, 2022 | Women, Peace and Security Focal Points Network
Geneva, Switzerland

Switzerland and South Africa are pleased to invite you to the fourth capital-level meeting of the Women, Peace and Security Focal Points Network, which will take place in…


Conducting M&E in the COVID-19 Pandemic (M&E Peer Learning Workshop #5)

May 11, 2022 | Environmental Law Institute and EnPAx Monitoring & Evaluation Interest Group
online

As part of its ongoing efforts to collect experiences, synthesize, and improve monitoring and evaluation of environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Law Institute and the Environmental…


Book Launch: Gender Violence in 21st Century Latin American Women's Writing

May 5, 2022 | Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, London Metropolitan University
Online

Governments in Latin America have consistently failed to protect women from all sorts of dynamics of violence, like male coercion, repressive policies on reproduction rights,…