Gender Equality in Times of War: Addressing Violence, Justice, and Displacement
Despite global efforts, true gender equality remains an unachieved goal. According to the United Nations, Sustainable Development Goal 5, “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls,” is not going to be met by 2030, and war only intensifies these disparities. In this webinar, three experts will discuss the specific ways women are affected by conflict and global policies that can be used to support them and enable their agency as they struggle with issues such as gender-based violence, access to justice, and forced displacement. Their presentations will provide a nuanced view of the often-overlooked effects of war on women, with attention to both immediate and long-term impacts. The session will also include time for audience questions, allowing for engagement with these timely and pressing issues. This webinar is an opportunity to deepen understanding of the challenges facing gender equality in conflict contexts, offering insights into why these issues demand serious consideration in today’s global landscape.
1. Gender Equality in Times of War: Policy Frameworks
2. Expanding Recognition of Women's Experiences of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Justice
Violence is perhaps the epitome of war and what warfare is understood to entail. However, up until relatively recently, women's experiences of war and of the violence associated with war, have largely remained invisible. This presentation will discuss how gender has been used as a lens to uncover the specific ways that violence impacts women during war, the development of evidence and approaches to understand and address that violence and why it remains imperative to continue to expand recognition of the range of gendered violence that takes place in war.
3. Gender Equality and Justice when displaced by war
Past experiences suggest that without addressing the issue of displacement no conflict management plans can be successful. For peace to be sustainable there needs to be a pathway to address the needs of the population that has been displaced due to conflict. Their safe return and reintegration is often ignored. Also reintegration after conflict cannot be considered without gender sensitivity. It cannot be a one size fits all strategy. For peace to be sustainable it has to be just peace.
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