Women, Peace and Security: Opportunities and Pitfalls of a Global Gender Norm cii – The Centre for International Intervention 10th December 2015 Foreign and Commonwealth Office PROGRAMME PROGRAMME 10:00 Introduction and welcome Mike Aaronson, cii 10:00 to 11.15 15 Years on: Reflections from the High-­level Review Chair: Katharine A. M. Wright, cii The High-­Level Review on Women, Peace and Security: A tale of two viewpoints • Hannah Wright, Saferworld • Gender and the Political Economy of Peacebuilding Claire Duncanson, University of Edinburgh 11:15 to 11:30 Coffee/tea break 11.30 to 12.45 Wo/men, Peace and Security Chair: Stephanie Blair, Independent WPS: the case of Serbia • Laura McLeod, University of Manchester The Gender Question Revisited • Marysia Zalewski, University of Aberdeen 12.45 to 13.45 Lunch 13.45 to 15.00 The Power of Norms in Foreign Policy Chair: Toni Haastrup, University of Kent Feminist Foreign Policy: The Swedish Example • Annika Bergmann-­Rosamond, Lund University Regional Organisations and WPS: The EU • Roberta Guerrina, Laura Chappell and Katharine A. M. Wright, cii 15:00 to 15:15 Coffee/tea break 15.15 to 16.30 Travelling Gender Norms Chair: Jill Steans, University of Birmingham Integrating Gender in Security Sector Reform • Megan Bastick, DCAF Reflections on national and international responses to sexual and gender-­based violence in the DRC • Jane Freedman, Université Paris 8 16:30 Close Speaker Biographies Megan Bastick Megan Bastick is a Gender and Security Fellow with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. Megan Bastick has worked for the last decade with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), an intergovernmental foundation mandated to support good governance and reform of the security sector. Megan’s work is focused on the integration of gender perspectives in the security sector, in particular in armed forces. She has written and edited a range of publications for security practitioners and policymakers, and published in the SIPRI Yearbook and Small Arms Survey. She has trained and worked with government officials, armed forces and local women’s organisations in a range of countries and contexts. In 2015, Megan started a PhD to look at how the evolving international norms concerning protection of civilians in armed conflict are understood and enacted by militaries. Megan holds a Masters degree in International Law from the University of Cambridge. She completed her undergraduate degrees in Law and Psychology at the University of New South Wales. Annika Bergmann-­Rosamond, Annika Bergman Rosamond is Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Lund University. Her research interests include several broad fields: Gender, feminism and IR with emphasis on security and cosmopolitan protection;; Popular culture and world politics;; celebrity humanitarianism, global politics and gender;; Arctic and Nordic internationalism, security, war and peace and feminist foreign policy;; and Ethical debates in international politics with emphasis on cosmopolitanism, feminist theory and the English School. Laura Chappell Laura Chappell is a Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Surrey. Her research focuses broadly on the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy from both an EU and Member State perspective. In particular she works on the following: German and Polish Security and Defence Policies;; The European Defence Agency and Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence;; EU Crisis Management Operations;; and Strategic Culture. Claire Duncanson Claire Duncanson is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to her academic career, she worked for a variety of human rights and international development NGOs, including Amnesty International, Jubilee 2000 and Global Perspective. 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, in particular, masculinities, to current international issues, such as military interventions, peacebuilding and nuclear proliferation. Jane Freedman Jane Freedman is Professor of Politics at the Université Paris 8, France. Her research focuses on issues of gender, conflict, violence and forced migration. Publications include, Gender, Violence and Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ashgate, 2015) and Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate (Palgrave, 2015). Roberta Guerrina Roberta Guerrina is a Reader in Politics and Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey. Dr Guerrina's main research interests are the interface between national, European and international politics, particularly with reference to the role of gender values/norms in shaping policy agendas: Gender and EU Politics;; Feminist theories;; Gender and International Relations, particularly Women's Human Rights, stabilisation and foreign policy;; The Idea of Europe and European identity and EU social policy. Laura McLeod Laura McLeod is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Laura’s research interests include gender, feminism and security in post-­conflict contexts, in particular ex-­Yugoslavia. Her current research asks about how we ‘know’ gender in peacebuilding, concentrating upon ways in which ‘gender knowledge’ is produced and accumulated in post-­conflict contexts. In this way, she seeks to understand why gender policy in post-­conflict contexts is configured in particular ways, opening up possibilities for rethinking the questions that we ask about gender mainstreaming in peacebuilding processes. Hannah Wright Hannah Wright works as a Gender, Peace and Security Adviser for Saferworld, an international NGO working on conflict prevention and peacebuilding. She is also a member of the Management Committee for Gender Action for Peace and Security, the UK’s 1325 network. She has previously worked as a researcher on foreign policy in the UK Parliament, and prior to that she worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories with a women’s rights NGO. She has authored a number of reports and policy briefings on a range of topics including masculinities and peacebuilding, gender and conflict analysis, and gender and security and justice sector reform. Katharine A. M. Wright Katharine A. M. Wright is a Teaching Fellow in International Relations at the University of Surrey. Her research expertise is in gender and security, with a particular interest in the role of international security institutions in implementing the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda encapsulated in UN Security Council Resolution 1325. Her PhD thesis examines NATO’s adoption and implementation of the WPS agenda. Marysia Zalewski Marysia Zalewski is a Professor of International Politics at the University of Aberdeen. Her research is located at the intersection of critical international relations theory, feminist theory (broadly conceived), queer theory and political theory. She has written extensively on theory, feminism, Northern Ireland, reproductive technologies, masculinities and methodology. She is currently engaged in critical projects on sexual violence against men, the future of sexual violence, sexed violence and terrorism, performance and knowledge production in international politics and creative writing in IR. These involve national and international collaborations as well an engagement with artists and practitioners. Support for this research will be sought from a range of funding bodies including: the Carnegie Trust, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Independent Social Research Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust.