Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights
The Center for Gender in Organizations is a member of the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, a group of five leading academic centers and programs in Boston dedicated to research on issues of gender and security, human rights, conflict resolution and prevention. The Boston Consortium was created to change the political and academic understanding of the security field so that the dynamics of gender become salient at all points in the conflict process, from prevention through post-conflict reconstruction. CGO’s focus is on creating work environments in leading peace and security organizations that foster greater inclusion of the knowledge and perspectives of women of diverse backgrounds as well as enhanced attention to gender and diversity in research and policy analysis.
CGO was pleased to have Dr. Carol Cohn as its Fellow for the 2003-2004 academic year. Dr. Cohn’s current research examines gender mainstreaming in international peace and security institutions, focusing on the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security, and the ongoing efforts by NGOs and UN entities to ensure its implementation. Her research and writing has focused on gender and international security, including examinations of the discourse of civilian defense intellectuals, and of gender integration issues in the U.S. military. Her extensive work on weapons of mass destruction includes, most recently, “A Feminist Ethical Perspective on Weapons of Mass Destruction,” co-authored with Sara Ruddick (in Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Eds. Sohail Hashmi and Phillip Valera, 2002).
On January 20, 2004, Dr. Cohn presented some of the results of her work at the event “325 Three Years On: Gender, Security, and Organizational Change,” hosted by CGO. Additional panelists at this event were Felicity Hill, Peace and Security Adviser to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor of Government and International Relations at Clark University.
Dr. Cohn also presented at the event “From Talk to Walk: Gender Equity & Gender Mainstreaming” on February 10, 2004, part of CGO’s Gender at Work: A BOLD New Perspective 2003-2004 event series. Dr. Laura Roskos, CGO’s 2002-2003 Boston Consortium Fellow, joined Dr. Cohn for this event.
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