Human Security

The Human Security approach aligns with NATO's core values of individual liberty, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.

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Human (In)-Security and Violent Extremism

The violent extremism - human insecurity nexus in MENA: Drivers and Opportunities

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Africa, Middle East

Victim Or Security Threat: Gendered Narratives On Women Returnees To The MENA Region

03 September 2020

Analyses on gendered aspects of policies on "Foreign Terrorist Fighters" returnees - with a focus on FTF wives and children.

Africa

Gender Equality in Africa

12 February 2019

Webinar with 70 community and civil society participants from Africa, discussing Gender Equality and In/Stability in Africa.

Daily news

Riyadh forum spotlights womens leadership roles

Capacity Building Workshop for Centre for Gender Development (CCDG) and Partners on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

MSF has and continues to treat more than two victims of sexual violence per hour in DRC

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Weekly readings

Why Gender matters in violent extremist propaganda strategy

This policy brief presents the gender representations theoretical framework to analyse how and why gender is used in the propaganda and politico-military strategies of violent extremist movements. It argues that violent extremist ideologies break down in-group and out-group collective identities into individual “good” and “bad” gender identities, or gender representations.

Reading of the Week: The triple burden: women selling their labour in South-Sudan

In rural South Sudan, markets for food, labour and land are expanding, and women’s workloads are increasing. In the twentieth century, most rural women had two main labour burdens: they produced food for home consumption on family farms; and at home provided life-giving labour, like child-rearing, emotional support, cooking and cleaning. These two labour burdens were unpaid. But now, they have a third labour burden.