About the Consortium

Goals, programming, and focus.

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WPS STUDENT CONSORTIUM GOALS

  1. Encourage intergenerational and innovative thinking regarding the WPS Agenda within the civil space as advocates for new research and policy.

  2. Connect students working in WPS issues across the DC consortium while establishing meaningful coalitions between professionals and DC Students.

  3. Increase awareness for the WPS Agenda across a wider DC educational audience and publicly promote appreciation for a gendered approach to security and a feminist approach to foreign policy.

 

Programming and focus

 

  • Peacebuilding, peacemaking, and peacekeeping
    Disarmament
    Engaging men and boys
    Development, public health and education
    LBGTQ+ awareness and combatting heteronotmativity
    Combatting racism, ethnic and religious discrimination
    Countering xenophobia and related intolerances

  • Militaries and military organizations
    Humanitarian aid and assistance
    Counterterrorism and countering violent extremism
    Survivor-centered responses to CRSV
    COVID-19

  • Historical analysis of gender and security
    Intergenerational gendered trauma
    Environmental security
    Population movements
    Human rights & governance

Events

We promote events to engage the DC community in discussion of the WPS Agenda and the Consortium pillars.

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Publishing

The consortium supports knowledge-building in the WPS community.

We publish research papers, op-eds, and policy briefs on issues concerning the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda or be looked at through a feminist, gendered, and intersectional lens. The Consortium accepts material written by current students or recent graduates of an undergraduate or graduate program of an affiliated university.