This episode of the Promise Institute Podcast features Madeleine Rees, the Secretary-General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, in conversation with Kate Mackintosh, Executive Director of the Promise Institute. This interview touches on the central role gender plays in war and peace and the political economy of patriarchy as a driving force in global conflict. They discuss pivotal moments in Rees’s career, including the ground-breaking transgender rights case she won before the European Court of Justice, her work with survivors of sex trafficking in Bosnia and her time spent with women revolutionaries in 1970’s Argentina.