Want to know why Women, Peace and Security matters to strategic leaders?

Don’t miss this episode with our new Women, Peace and Security Podcast hosts; Professors Brenda Oppermann and Vanessa Brown where they explore this and other important questions and offer us their informed and honest answers. Note: These episodes are recorded remotely (U.S & Canada).

Prof Brenda Oppermann - A “pracademic,” has extensive experience as a practitioner and academic working on conflict, peace, security, and gender equality. As a senior advisor and subject matter expert, she has 30+ years of experience -- including more than seven (7) years in conflict-affected countries -- working with DOD, the U.S. Army, USAID, the United Nations, U.S. Institute of Peace, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and various NGOs. Specializing in women, peace, and security, stability operations, organizational change, leadership, and traditional justice, she has extensive experience working in Africa, Central Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. She also has significant experience with interagency processes, civil-military relations, and bi-lateral and international collaboration.

Prof Vanessa brown holds a PhD in sociology from Carleton university. Her thesis investigates the integration of gender and cultural perspectives in professional military education and its relationship to organizational culture change. Doctor Brown joined the Canadian Forces College as a lecturer in 2015, teaching institutional Policy Studies for the joint command and staff program. She was recently appointed assistant professor in the Department of Defense studies at Canadian Forces College. Doctor Brown has assumed a variety of department of National Defense research and advisory roles in recent years including as an assistant professor with the Dallaire Center of Excellence for Peace and Security as well as gender adviser to the commander of the Canadian defense Academy. Lastly, she was the chief instructor for our first Gender Integration and Perspectives Elective Course at the IADC in 2022

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/hawks-doves-and-canaries-women-and-conflict
Hawks, Doves and Canaries: Women and Conflict by Brenda Oppermann

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/18/fact-sheet-us-government-women-peace-and-securityreport-to-congress/

White House Fact Sheet on WPS – Jul 2022


https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/operations/military-operations/conduct/cds-directive-unscr-1325.html

CDS Directive for Integrating UNSCR 1325 and Related Resolutions into CAF Planning and Operations - 2016

https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_development-enjeux_developpement/gender_equality-egalite_des_genres/cnap_wps-pnac_fps.aspx?lang=eng

Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security

Producer/Audio Editor: Frieda Garcia Castellanos