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Florence School of Transnational Governance

Empowering Women In and Through Foreign Policy (in Madrid)

Programme Start Date

26/06/2019

Duration

26-28 June 2019

Delivery mode

Residential

Location

Badia Fiesolana

Past training, registrations closed.

Programme Description

The feminization of diplomacy and foreign policy has been gradually expanding and gaining popularity, in particular, since Sweden’s Foreign Minister adopted a feminist foreign policy in 2014. Around 30 women are in charge of their countries’ diplomacy and foreign affairs (8 only in Europe and 10 in Latin America). Leaders all over the world are adopting a gender lens in their foreign policy strategies aiming to empower women and promote gender equality with the ultimate goal to achieve peace and prosperity. For example, Canada has recently hosted the first ever meeting of female Foreign Ministers, showing its commitment to addressing women’s empowerment under its G-7 Presidency. A “feminist foreign policy” is not only a framework to achieve peace, security and sustainable development, but also a model that can strengthen women and girls’ rights, participation and resources throughout foreign policy agendas. This Executive Training focused on the impact of gender in shaping international relations and on the development of a feminist foreign policy. By challenging the prevailing conceptions of foreign policy, participants were able to acquire skills and tools on how to apply systematic gender quality perspectives in their daily international work. By combining input sessions from well-known experts in the field, soft skills sessions, case studies, individual and group work, this training aimed to train professionals involved in foreign policy-making, policy advice, as well as research on the links between foreign policy and gender, as well civil society actors engaged in promoting gender equality.

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