2024 WPS Symposium: Overview and Polling by Dr. Saira Yamin, WPS Chair, U.S. Naval War College

THE AMBASSADOR SWANEE HUNT CHAIR OF WOMEN PEACE AND SECURITY AND PROFESSOR
U.S. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE
Dr. Saira Yamin is The Ambassador Swanee Hunt Chair of Women, Peace, and Security at the U.S. Naval War College. She has held teaching appointments at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, and the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. She has worked to advance the U.S. WPS policy framework including its institutionalization in the U.S. Department of Defense and building partner-nation capacities for over a decade. She is widely published, her research spanning a range of topics on international peace and conflict, global governance, democratic transitions, and gendered security. She is the editor of a forthcoming volume titled Women, Peace, and Security: Rethinking Global Security in a Changing World (Naval War College Press, 2024) and the author of a book titled Stability Through Economic Cooperation in a Nuclear Environment (2005, Manohar, New Delhi). She is the recipient of the Faculty Scholarship and Eleanor Roosevelt Student Scholarship awards conferred by the Carter Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution and has received U.S. Federal Government awards for excellence as Mentor of the Year (2019) and the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s World of Excellence Award (2012-2022).
Dr Yamin discusses the following questions: (i) What is Women, Peace, and Security, (ii) Will greater inclusion of women further national security and defense objectives, and (iii) Organizational barriers to women's meaningful participation.
The U.S. Naval War College (NWC) hosted the 10th iteration of its Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Symposium onboard Naval Station Newport, May 2-3.
The symposium, themed “Advancing Gendered Security in a Complex World: Hard Power, Smart Power, Soft Power,” aimed to foster a shared understanding of the complex and dynamic global security environment through examination of women’s influence and experience as stakeholders and catalysts of change alongside men.

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