What are the external and internal factors influencing the advocacy for a Feminist Foreign Policy model in India? How are gender and postcolonial perspectives on the history of the state affecting the implementation of international assistance programs and domestic politics quotas? 

A commentary on the latest Kubernein Initiative 2021 report "Understanding the Feminist Foreign Policy: A view from India" and several other conversations on how to implement this model on the country.

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How has the COVID-19 global pandemic changed menstrual health education and hygiene efforts? What are the new trends in regards to human and women's rights defense, period poverty eradication, vaccines and sustainability? How can we start seeing the SDG's in an interconnected way instead of relating menstruation only to Gender Equality (5) or only Clean Water and Sanitation (6)? In which ways can a company's organizational culture can thrive by honoring their team's menstrual cycles? 

An interview with Danielle Keiser, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of social enterprise Madami, also known as the Menstrual Health Hub. 

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Which series of events led to US final (and controversial) withdrawal from Afghanistan? Why there is so much fear of the Taliban "taking over" and ruling the territory? How foreign invasions and influence from British/USSR to US and China shaped the nation-building process in Afghanistan? Could there be "legitimate" non-Western systems of governance? Will there be a new humanitarian crisis or Afghan civil war? Has the international community "failed" the Afghan people, particularly women and girls? What will happen now?

An interview with Jose R. Rivera-Gonzalez, lecturer of International Studies and US Foreign Policy at the Universidad Sagrado Corazon in Puerto Rico and foreign affairs media commentator, on the history of nation-building in Afghanistan and the repercussions of foreign inversions and interventions.

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Why is the latest UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report causing so much alarm? In preparation for the COP26, what are the key findings of this document and how are we as people, researchers, influencers and communicators reacting or responding to it? 

A commentary on gender, international media and human-earth relations. 

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How structural gender violence can harm or encourage the Spirit of women at universities, think tanks and entrepreneurial initiatives? As we are approaching the second anniversary of this podcast, today I share with you the journey and lessons of launching feminist online workshops as a freelancer, consultant and now: entrepreneur.

From resistance to change structures and career paths in the IR world to how we relate to one another at a personal and business level, a reflection of how to say "yes" to yourself in a flood of rejections.

A conversation on the good, the bad and the ugly. 

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One of the most common questions I've received in the past two years is "How-to speak with professors about feminist theory in IR?" Today I share with you three tips to start a conversation.

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Why is it that, as the number of people suffering increases, the less we seem to care? How psychic numbing is affecting the way we relate and act upon injustices domestically or internationally? Are we valuing human life in a consistent way?  What's the role of media and social media platforms in this post-truth era regarding our empathy towards the pain of Others? 

An interview with Dr. Paul Slovic & Dr. Scott Slovic, co-editors of the Arithmetic of Compassion and co-editors of the book Numbers and Nerves, on how our brains work and how we measure and value our human relationships. 

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Dr. Paul Slovic received his B.A. degree from Stanford University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from the University of Michigan. In 1976, Dr. Slovic founded the research institute Decision Research with Sarah Lichtenstein and Baruch Fischhoff, where he currently serves as President. He has also been a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon since 1986. He and his colleagues worldwide have developed methods to describe risk perceptions and measure their impacts on individuals, industry, and society. His most recent work examines “psychic numbing” and the failure to respond to global threats from genocide and nuclear war and Covid 19.

Dr. Scott Slovic is University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho, USA. He lectures and publishes widely in the environmental humanities. His recent co-edited books include Ecocritical Aesthetics: Language, Beauty, and the Environment and The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication. Much of his current research and teaching focuses on how information is collected, communicated, and received in the contexts of humanitarian and environmental crises.

What are the four main topics to understand when approaching gender issues in the Middle East? How to start learning about the different feminist movements and ethnic groups in North Africa? Why there is a Western fixation on the "veil"? Is the separation State & Religion ever possible? 

A first interview with Itzel Pamela Pérez-Gómez, Middle East Studies professor at Universidad Anahuac Mayab in Mexico. 

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Are we reproducing the patriarchal mindset by feminizing peace? Is it helping shift or continue the re masculinization of realpolitik? Can we ever escape the binary paradigm on war/peace, public/private, local/linternational spheres? 

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How widely accepted is the “power over the other” mindset? What can we learn from human security and female archetypes in war and post-war contexts? Watch the Instagram Live for this episode here. 

In preparation of our upcoming online workshop on Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security, here is a brief exploration on feminism, militarism and weapons of wars. 

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