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Feminist Foreign Policies: What’s Next? Perspectives from Canada, Scotland and Beyond
Event Date: November 10, 2022 - 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Location: FSS 4004 and Zoom
If you prefer to join remotely, the Zoom link for event is: https://uottawa-ca.zoom.us/j/95541338994?pwd=RFBJcUF6OC95UXh4S1dUMVVwVWxEZz09
Presented by CIPS and the School of International Development and Global Studies
Since Sweden’s 2014 adoption of a feminist foreign policy, several other countries have since announced plans to introduce their own feminist foreign policies, including Spain, Luxembourg, Libya, Sweden, Canada, France, and Mexico. In total, more than 30 governments and networks are working to advance feminist foreign policies, such as Australia, the Netherlands and Scotland.
The four panelists will consider the strategies employed in diverse countries to promote feminist foreign policies; the significance of feminist policy commitments for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; the transnational relationships that are required for their effective implementation; and the implications of feminist foreign policy priorities for the most marginalized communities around the world.
The event will be in English.
Speakers:
Claire Duncanson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Edinburgh. Claire’s research interests lie at the intersection of international security, IR theory and gender politics. Her work applies new theoretical insights about feminism, gender, and masculinities to current international issues, such as military interventions, peacebuilding and nuclear proliferation. Her current project, with Carol Cohn at the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Right, is focused on creating a Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace and Planet. Her recent publications include Her recent book, Gender and Peacebuilding, with (Polity Press, 2016) and Forces for Good? Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). For more information, please see https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/research/cop26/claire-duncanson.
Beth Woroniuk is the Vice President, Policy at the Equality Fund. Her work includes advocating for more and better resourcing of women’s organizations and gender justice movements and for effective feminist foreign policies. Beth has worked extensively on feminist approaches to peace and security and currently chairs the Women, Peace and Security Network-Canada. For more than 25 years, Beth has advised and worked with bilateral aid agencies, UN entities and NGOs, strengthening their work on gender equality and women’s rights in numerous contexts and countries. She has developed analytical tools, supported policy development, carried out research, blogged, conducted evaluations, organized, lobbied, and testified before the Canadian Parliament. Beth lived and worked in Nicaragua, a time that had a formative impact on her understanding of feminist organizing and analysis. Beth’s formal studies were in Political Science and Economics, and she has degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Toronto. She is based in Ottawa, Canada. You can follow her on twitter @bethottawa.
Rebecca Tiessen is a Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on gender inequality, security, and feminist principles in transnational contexts. Her most recent book, Innovations in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Understanding the Role of International Development Volunteers as Transnational Actors (co-edited with Benjamin J. Lough, Tiffany Laursen, Khursheed Sadat) was published by Nomos in 2020; Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy: From Commitments to Contributions (Special issue co-edited with Heather Smith and Liam Swiss) published in International Journal, September 2020; and “Towards a Transformative Vision for Gender and Canadian International Policy: The Role and Impact of ‘Feminist Inside Activists’” (co-authored with Nnenna Okoli), forthcoming in international Journal.
Safo Musta is a graduate student at the School of International Development and Global Studies of the University of Ottawa. Her MA thesis explores the impact of Canadian aid at the nexus of gender and transitional justice in Colombia through a feminist institutionalist lens. For her MA project in 2022, she conducted fieldwork near the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, where she interviewed local organizations and beneficiaries of Canadian-funded projects on the impact of these projects in the post-peace accord era. In the past, Safo worked in development programs in the Balkans and earned graduate degrees from Temple Law School in Philadelphia, PA, in the US and Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia.
Moderator:
Margaret Jenkins is a Senior Fellow with the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa and is currently an international consultant with UN Women working on developing the Regional Plan of Action on Women, Peace and Security for the ASEAN region. She received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Toronto. Margaret has been a Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and at Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Programme, and she was a Visiting Professor at Central European University (Budapest) from 2014-2018. Her research focuses on gender and public policy, as well as scholarly work on justice and pluralism.