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X-WR-CALNAME:Women in Peace Negotiations: Powerful Advocates or Powerless A
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DESCRIPTION:About the event: The Women\, Peace and Security sector advocate
 s for the inclusion of designated gender experts in peace processes to imp
 rove outcomes for women. However\, empirical support for their effectivene
 ss remains inconclusive. This talk questions whether gender experts are in
 fluential or ineffective advocates for women. While their explicit commitm
 ent to gendered issues may benefit women\, the overt femininity of the rol
 e may disadvantage their capacity in overtly masculine security spaces. Le
 veraging an original dataset capturing the role of 2299 delegates across 1
 16 comprehensive peace agreements finalized between 1990 and 2021\, we fin
 d that gender experts increase the likelihood that agreements contain prov
 isions for women. However\, interviews and archival analysis suggest that 
 the systemic structure of peace negotiations constrains gender experts’ 
 overall influence. Consequently\, we explain how gender experts are simult
 aneously powerful and powerless. Findings capture gender experts’ limita
 tions\, caution against policy that makes gender experts solely responsibl
 e for gendered considerations in peace processes\, and contribute to under
 standing gendered power dynamics in negotiations more broadly.\n\nAbout th
 e speaker: Elizabeth is a CISAC Postdoctoral Fellow and previously held fe
 llowships at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center\, Harvard Law School
 ’s Program on Negotiation\, the US Institute of Peace\, Northwestern Uni
 versity’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs\, and Canada’s Social S
 ciences and Humanities Research Council. Her research focuses on Women\, P
 eace and Security\, and explores power dynamics in peace negotiations. Her
  work has been published in the American Political Science Review. Elizabe
 th holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and she previously worked as
  a Gender Specialist with the UN in Kosovo and as a Gender Consultant for 
 USAID in Ghana.
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LOCATION:Encina Hall\, William J. Perry Conference Room
SUMMARY:Women in Peace Negotiations: Powerful Advocates or Powerless Actors
 ?
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/women-in-peace-negotiations
 -powerful-advocates-or-powerless-actors
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