Peace: We Build It!

Why WPS? The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda Can Change the World

April 01, 2021 Alliance for Peacebuilding Season 1 Episode 2
Why WPS? The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda Can Change the World
Peace: We Build It!
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Peace: We Build It!
Why WPS? The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda Can Change the World
Apr 01, 2021 Season 1 Episode 2
Alliance for Peacebuilding

In this second episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, AfP’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, Megan Corrado, and Dr. Shirley Graham, Director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs and Associate Professor with George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, sits down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss the progress of and challenges facing the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda 20 years after passage of the landmark United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and how women’s meaningful inclusion in peacebuilding is vital to international security and development. 

The episode also explores how implementation of the WPS Act can help the U.S. emerge as a “gender superpower”—exercised through a feminist foreign policy and commitment to the empowerment of women, gender minorities, and other marginalized populations.  

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Show Notes

In this second episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, AfP’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, Megan Corrado, and Dr. Shirley Graham, Director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs and Associate Professor with George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, sits down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss the progress of and challenges facing the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda 20 years after passage of the landmark United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and how women’s meaningful inclusion in peacebuilding is vital to international security and development. 

The episode also explores how implementation of the WPS Act can help the U.S. emerge as a “gender superpower”—exercised through a feminist foreign policy and commitment to the empowerment of women, gender minorities, and other marginalized populations.  

Support the Show.