Women, Peace and Security

OEF’s Our Secure Future program convened dozens of academics, practitioners, and military officials for a Curriculum Consortium on Women, Peace and Security at the Naval War College.

OEF’s Our Secure Future program and the Nobel Women’s Initiative co-hosted the conference Designing Our Secure Future in Ottawa, Canada from June 20-22. The conference brought together thought leaders from around the world to develop a strategic vision and messaging for the future of women, peace an...

Civil society actors play an influential role in supporting human rights.

Social media can be a double-edged sword—used not only for supporting peacebuilders on the ground, but in hybrid warfare and in radicalizing young populations, shows OEF program Our Secure Future in their blog.

After participating in online brainstorming for NATO’s Innovation Hub, OEF's Our Secure Future program began to think more deeply about the utility of social media in peace and security operations.

A panel on International Women's Day, co-sponsored by OEF's Our Secure Future program, emphasized implementing inclusive policies in careers and in the current political climate.

The latest blog from OEF’s Our Secure Future program details how gender blindness can negatively impact the work of a peacekeeping mission.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we recall some words of wisdom from one American woman, Audre Lorde, to help us create a more peaceful and just world together.