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Feminist Foreign Policies: What’s Next? Perspectives from Canada, Scotland and Beyond

https://www.cips-cepi.ca/event/feminist-foreign-policies-whats-next-perspectives-from-canada-scotland-and-beyond/

Event Date: November 10, 2022 - 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Location: FSS 4006

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.

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.  

Social Sciences Building

Whoa! What Putin and China are doing will change EVERYTHING | skip to half way 6th minute..

European Protesters Rise Up Against NATO amid Rising Energy Prices

Bloggers note: is it time to rethink NATO ...or at least suspend our membership for a few years ...

NATO has become a Piranha with a head made in the USA 

we should also suspend NORAD renewal talks for 2 years

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ly being viewed as a warmonger Europeans

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have many crises to deal with what

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Europe is going through is nothing short

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of tragic amid an intense energy come

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economic crisis where people are

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struggling to make ends meet on a daily

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basis NATO and EU seem to be inkling for

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a war with Russia

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the European Union's foreign policy

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Chief Joseph Burrell recently said the

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Russian military would be and

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highlighted by NATO's forces if tactical

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nuclear weapons were to be used in

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Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin

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responded by saying such a move would

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trigger a global catastrophe Europeans

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for one have had enough now they want to

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get out of NATO and get out fast that's

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why anti-nato protests are simmering all

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across Europe

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less than a week ago tens of thousands

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of protesters choked the streets of

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France's Capital City Paris as they

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chanted anti-nato slogans demonstrators

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were seen holding a large Banner reading

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resistance and smaller placards that

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reads it a reference to a demand that

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France leave the EU while at it they

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shouted let's get out of NATO the

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protesters accused NATO of warmongering

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economic disruption and energy and

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health restrictions all of this they

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said was the result of the eels

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imposition of sanctions on Russia that

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are largely seen to have backfired more

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recently anti-nato protests have also

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been seen in Italy several protesters

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led by the USB Union burned energy bills

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in Rome and demanded an end to Italy's

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involvement in NATO protests are also

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being seen in Germany the Czech Republic

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and Moldova in Berlin the co-leader of

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the party spearheading the protests

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accused the government of Waging War on

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its own people by sanctioning Russia

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over its military operation in Ukraine

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Europe is heating up but not in a way

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governments wanted to what European

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countries desperately need right now is

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sufficient gas to produce heat and

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electricity that's not really the case

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instead Europe is showing nascent signs

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of civil unrest political turmoil and

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social chaos driving the unrest is

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Europe's involvement in NATO Ordinary

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People just want to live their lives

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they want their hard-earned money to

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stay in their pockets and not get

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splashed trying to survive a crisis

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which they view as the eu's doing no

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sanctions on Russia would mean Russian

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gas and oil would continue flowing into

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Europe that would pretty much solve all

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of the continent's problems instead the

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EU is doubling down on efforts to

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antagonize Russia to supposedly punish

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Vladimir Putin all such efforts are

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boomeranging while Ukraine has the

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sympathy of many in Europe the cost of

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supporting give is beginning to pinch

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ordinary Europeans really hard they see

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just one way out of Russia not being

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pushed into a corner and NATO along with

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EU getting the foot off the anti-muscow

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accelerator but NATO and EU are both

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determined to wage a fight against

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Russia so Europeans are demanding that

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their countries leave not just NATO but

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also the EU essentially solidarity with

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Ukraine is proving to be really

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expensive and Europeans aren't happy

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about the costs they are incurring do

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you think NATO faces a unique challenge

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in the form of the people of Europe let

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us know in the comments

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