Navigating Women, Peace, and Security in Colour
The Research Network on Women, Peace and Security (RN-WPS) is organizing a series of panel events on emerging issues in researching Women, Peace and Security, for the 2022-2023 academic year. The second event in this series will focus on the experiences of women of colour (WOC) who are active in the WPS field - as both academic and practitioners.
This event will share information on how to:
- build a career in WPS as a woman of Color, focusing on both challenges and opportunities;
- Highlight the presence and works of women of Color in WPS;
- and discuss the unique social locations as women of Color practitioners and researchers working within our own and/or other communities of Color.
Speakers:
Dr. Siham Rayale:听Dr. Siham Rayale (PhD) has over a decade of experience working on and developing global policy and programming that promotes women鈥檚 political and economic empowerment. Siham鈥檚 research and advocacy has focused on issues relating to women, peace and security with an emphasis on legal reform in conflict and post-conflict contexts.听Siham has extensive experience working in complex humanitarian environments and leading research that promotes feminist social transformation and foreign policy. Siham has worked in the non-profit sector and academia where she taught courses focusing on development theory and praxis. She has a Masters in Development from York University, an LLM from Osgoode Hall at York University, and a PhD from SOAS.
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Dr. Nafisa Abdulhamid:听Nafisa Abdulhamid, PhD is a Gender and Learning Officer at Global Affairs Canada. Nafisa has a doctorate in Political Science from Dalhousie University where she focused on civilian protection in armed conflict in Somalia. Nafisa is also a postdoctoral researcher at Wilfrid Laurier University and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Security and Development (CSSD).
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Mary Pierre Wade:听Mary Pierre Wade is a Foreign Service Officer at Global Affairs Canada and the Chief of Staff to the Ambassador for Women, Peace, and Security. She has worked on international security and human rights for most of her career at GAC, and she is dedicated to promoting an inclusive approach to security. She has served on Canada's delegations to NATO in Brussels (where she was lead on WPS), and to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva (where she co-chaired the HRC resolution on Violence Against Women). She holds a Master of International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK). She was born in Japan and grew up on the traditional, unceded lands of the Semiahmoo First Nations People, in the beautiful lower mainland of BC. She also serves as a member of the Board for Women In International Security Canada.
W锘縤th opening remarks from Panthea Pourmalek (UBC and RN-WPS Youth Advisory Board), this event will be moderated by Isabelle Aung (Queen's University and RN-WPS PhD student) and Samantha El-Ghazal (UBC and RN-WPS Youth Advisory Board).