WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY IN A SHIFTING SECURITY LANDSCAPE - Please join the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative, in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and Our Secure Future: Women Make the Difference, for this event.

On the margins of International Women’s Day, the United States and its allies and partners around the world must confront an evolving security environment. As conflicts erupt from Europe to the Middle East and beyond, malign actors aim to upend the rules-based international order, target civilian populations, and exacerbate global insecurity. Women are consistently and disproportionately affected in these conflicts; however, women and gendered perspectives can provide the solutions to transform the security environment and enable lasting peace.

As we reflect on several critical milestones—including nearly 25 years of the United Nations resolution on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) as well as NATO’s 75th anniversary—this discussion will consider how emergent geopolitical challenges centered on issues related to climate change, new technologies, and the global refugee crisis, should be addressed and prioritized through a gender lens to strengthen collective security and defense alliances.

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 03/04/2024