What are some of the most common misconceptions and stereotypes international media reproduces on Palestinian women? What are some of the many different identities and realities Palestinian women face due to double oppression, conflict and geographical landscape? What is the status of 1325 National Action Plan's implementation and women's political participation? How to practice feminist solidarity with Palestinian women?

A special conversation with Nivine Sandouka, leading expert on gender, development and peacebuilding in East Jerusalem and Palestine territories.

This episode was recorded at a live event today, February 26th, as the first of three-part talk series we have co-organized with collaborator and IR scholar Itzel Pamela Perez Gomez.

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What is like to build a culture of peace in El Salvador? How can working with the youth help heal individual and collective wounds in one of the most dangerous countries in the world? Perspectives from politics, violence, religion, gender and environment. 

An interview with Espacio Joven's co-founders Fernando Pérez and Fabiola Torres; and Isela Ulloa, environmental coordinator of this NGO. 

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Several international news reports are denouncing crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs in East Turkestan. Calls to address and put an end to genocide and the reportedly different measures taken by the Chinese authorities (forced re-education, forced labour, forced sterilization, forced marriages, sexual violence, torture) are not prompting an urgent international community response. 

Why is this happening? What is the current situation in this territory? What are the human and women's rights violations and why we should it's important to pay attention?

An interview with Rushan Abbas, executive director of the Campaign for Uyghurs. 

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Where are the men? How are patriarchal mindset and system affecting masculinities and driving climate change? How are masculinities and conceptions of power, at individual and social levels, shaping people's roles in Women, Peace and Security?

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How can we overcome a "gender-blind" approach to climate change or a "climate-blind" approach to Women, Peace and Security agenda? How ecofeminist lines of thoughts can explain some feminist critiques to the NAPs links to the impacts of climate change?

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What is the status of humanitarian crisis and humanitarian aid for women and girls in Afghanistan? Why international law protection and R2P mechanisms are not being enforced or mainly considered? Are sanctions the way to deal with the Taliban? 

In this episode we share a commentary on the January 20th webinar “Solutions for Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan”, organized by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. Watch it here: https://www.facebook.com/GIWPS/videos/301389418489811/

The webinar features interviews with: Rina Amiri, U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights; Mahbouba Seraj, Executive Director, Afghan Women Skills Development Center (AWSDC); Shaharzad Akbar, Former Chairperson, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC); Muqaddesa Yourish, Former Deputy Minister for Commerce and Industry; Maryam Rahmani, Country Representative, Afghan Women's Resource Center (AWRC); Dr. Suraya Dalil, Director, WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care and Former Minister of Public Health, Afghanistan; Palwasha Hassan, Director, The Afghan Women’s Educational Center and Senior Fellow, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security; Amb. Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.

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How can we start connecting to the three words: Women, Peace, Security? What is the mindset separating IR field subjects of study from our daily experiences, countries and public/foreign policies? 

A revision of the WPS Agenda and tips on how can we begin landing its topics to our personal/national/international realities.

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Conversations on the values we uphold - in front of many human rights violations and crises, moving forward, what are we truly standing up (or down) for?

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What does it mean? Is it a decolonial and democratic move? What power lessons can we learn from new president Sandra Mason and prime minister Mia Amor Mottley? 

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Are we creating self-fulfilling prophecies on climate change with unaligned energy systems? How is the patriarchal mindset affecting our view of States and COP26 delegations, negotiators, scientists? 

How we engage with people representing our state system? What are the expectations we have on them and are these expectations representative of the values they and us uphold? How is violence and fear mongering campaigns impacting our value system from a personal to an international level?

In this part III, we explore questions on energetics and human psychology.

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