Thursday 29 August: join us online and in-person
Structural Challenges, Feminist Innovations and Radical Futures: The Gender, Justice and Security Hub Report Launch
The Gender, Justice and Security Hub addresses some of the world’s most urgent injustices. Conflict and gender-based violence have devastating, long-term consequences for individuals, families and communities. They also severely hamper the successful delivery of development goals internationally.
The Hub is an interdisciplinary, transnational research network working with local and global civil society, practitioners, governments and international organisations over 5 years to address these challenges and advance the delivery of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality, SDG 16 on peace, justice and strong institutions, and the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. The Hub includes 40 partner organisations, 38 research projects in 24 countries and over 150 members around the world. Its novelty lies in its interdisciplinary ambition, its feminist framework, the breadth of comparative analysis and its vision of a holistic approach to gender equality and sustainable justice in and after conflict.
The Gender, Justice and Security Hub is a GCRF UKRI Global Challenges Hub and has been hosted by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security and since 2023 in the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa.
Join us at two events on 29th August for the launch of the Hub report: Gender, Justice and Security: Structural Challenges, Feminist Innovations and Radical Futures.
Collectively authored by Hub members, it includes Hub-wide analysis and reflections, country-specific and general research findings and recommendations. In addition to sharing research findings, the report critically reflects on the Hub’s large-scale feminist approach to transnational, interdisciplinary, multi-partner research and examines its vision for a radically transformed future.
More information on the Hub can be found at www.TheGenderHub.com
Researching Gender Justice in the Shadow of Conflict: Evidence from Hub Focus Countries
Thursday 29 August, 14:00 - 15:30 (BST) online via Zoom
This event situates the Hub’s work geographically by outlining the key findings and recommendations for each of its focus countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Kurdistan-Iraq, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Uganda. Panellists working on each context will discuss country-specific calls to action featured in the report, providing critical new evidence and insights relevant to those studying, working in, advocating for, and making law and policy related to gender, justice and security around the globe.
Register here: https://lse.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yQoPRqJsRxmGCvDMcId6qw
Speakers
Introduction by Dr Kirsten Ainley and Professor Christine Chinkin
Dr Josephine Ahikire, Associate Professor of Gender Studies in the School of Women and Gender Studies, Principal of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University
Dr Choman Hardi, Associate Professor, Director of AUIS’s Center for Gender and Development Studies, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
Dr Chulani Kodikara, postdoctoral fellow, School of Law, Queen’s University, Belfast
Dr Charbel Maydaa,Co-chair and West Asian representative For ILGA ASIA, Founder of MOSAIC
Dr Mohamed Sesay, Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, York University
María Gabriela Vargas Parada, Political Scientist, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
From Feminist Research to Radically Transformed Futures
Thursday 29 August, 17:30 - 19:00 (BST) in person at the London School of Economics and Political Science, The Marshall Building, room MAR 2.04
The panellists at this event will reflect on the Hub itself as a model for change – unpacking how its interdisciplinary, transnational and collaborative feminist praxis can support advances in gender justice and inclusive security. Based on their research on masculinities and sexualities, migration and displacement, livelihood, land and rights, and transformation and empowerment, they will discuss what radically transformed futures might look like in these areas and how we work towards achieving them.
Introduction by Dr Kirsten Ainley and Professor Christine Chinkin
Dr Paul Kirby, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University London
Professor Eleonore Kofman, Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University
Dr Simeon Koroma, Research Fellow, School of Social Science and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Founder of Timap for Justice
Dr Neelam Raina, Associate Professor of Design and Development, Middlesex University
Chair: Dr Evelyn Pauls, Co-Investigator, Gender, Justice and Security Hub, LSE