What can a feminist foreign policy bring to peacebuilding efforts? What can national governments learn from civil societies when it comes to ensuring a long-lasting peace? And what will it take to truly have equal representation at the negotiating table? In this episode, activist, academic, and NGO leader Maria Hadjipavlou talks us through the important work she has done for the divided communities in Cyprus over the past four decades. Looking back at her work she shines a light on how a feminist approach to conflict resolution could help create a better chance for longer lasting peace.

In the series of podcasts ‘Retrieved’, by the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Thessaloniki office, we bring together experts, policy-makers and members of the civil society. We take a closer look at feminist foreign policy and understand what it means for the peace-building, migration, defence and many other policy areas.

Who produces knowledge on feminist foreign policy? When did academic research on feminist international relations start taking shape? And who gets to define what a feminist foreign policy might look like? In this episode, we go back in time with Lucia Yar, acting editor-in-chief of Euractiv Slovakia, to find the roots of feminist foreign policy in movements of the early-20th century, whilst discussing ground-breaking research that’s changing how we think about the impacts of representation in policy making.

In the series of podcasts ‘Retrieved’, by the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Thessaloniki office, we bring together experts, policy-makers and members of the civil society. We take a closer look at feminist foreign policy and understand what it means for the peace-building, migration, defence and many other policy areas.

What would we see if we looked at migration through the gender lens? How does the experience of displacement differ for women and vulnerable social groups? In this episode, we speak with Neda Noraie-Kia, Head of European Migration Policy at the Thessaloniki Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. We talk about the gender aspect of migration policy and its relation to foreign policy. We discuss whether responsiveness is a matter of political will and illustrate what externalising the 'management' of migration means for women and vulnerable social groups. We take a closer look into the developments on EU level and the changing legal framework for EU migration policies.

In the series of podcasts ‘Retrieved’, by the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Thessaloniki office, we bring together experts, policy-makers and members of the civil society. We take a closer look at feminist foreign policy and understand what it means for the peace-building, migration, defence and many other policy areas.

How does conflict impact women and vulnerable social groups? Are their needs being taken into account in defence policy and in arms trade? Member of the Bundestag, Merle Spellerberg, and Head of the Gender and Disarmament Programme at UNIDIR, Renata Hessmann Dalaqua, discuss the disproportionate impacts of conflict on women and vulnerable groups, and suggest what a feminist foreign policy can do to bring us closer to a more peaceful world. We discuss the gender impacts of nuclear testing, and broach lacking gender parity and representation in defence policy, as well as how an unregulated arms trade can exacerbate gender-based violence.

In the series of podcasts ‘Retrieved’, by the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Thessaloniki office, we bring together experts, policy-makers and members of the civil society. We take a closer look at feminist foreign policy and understand what it means for the peace-building, migration, defence and many other policy areas.

What is a feminist foreign policy? And why are some countries rushing to adopt it? Does it just concern women? Or is it a new, more radical approach to foreign policy looking to dismantle patriarchal structures and achieve equality for all? We sit down with Berlin-based Nina Bernarding, CEO and co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, to talk about everything from working with feminist civil society in Afghanistan, to advocating fervently for disarmament, to the importance of putting people first when it comes to security.

In the series of podcasts ‘Retrieved’, by the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Thessaloniki office, we bring together experts, policy-makers and members of the civil society. We take a closer look at feminist foreign policy and what it means for the peace-building, migration, defence and many other policy areas.

Feminism and patriarchy are terms we tend to encounter in discussions about the way societies are organised internally. And yet, foreign policy, just like most fields of policy-making, is heavily affected by patriarchal structures and prejudice. In the series of podcasts ‘Retrieved’, by the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Thessaloniki office, we bring together experts, policy-makers and members of the civil society. We take a closer look at feminist foreign policy and what it means for the peace-building, migration, defence and many other policy areas. Can feminism retrieve a new foreign policy mantra out of the dusty ideas of the past?