Over the last two decades, policy frameworks like the Women, Peace and Security agenda, provide a valuable platform for advocacy efforts. Yet such approaches do not tackle the underlying issue of gender inequality. As researchers have documented, where there is less gender equality there is less peace.
The U.S. Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace and Security and the U.S. Institute of Peace hosted this discussion examining how policies and programs can be shaped to better prevent the use of sexual violence and re-establish secure environments when it does occur.
What kind of policy problem is conflict-related sexual violence? How we answer this question has implications for the solutions proposed. On November 1, panelists...
On December 6, USIP hosted a panel to explore how past international policing and reform efforts make the case for specialized policing interventions, what...
After months of escalating confrontation between North Korea and the United States, President Trump used his November visit to Asia to reinforce a policy...