When Margot Wallstrom, then Sweden’s foreign minister, announced back in 2014 that her country would pursue a feminist foreign policy, the idea was greeted with skepticism.

What will it really take to change our global system? What do systemic alternatives rooted in human rights and centering justice look like? How are feminist foreign policies attempting to tackle some of these issues, or how should they? This session will explore a new global order and challenge existing paradigms so that we may re-imagine what a feminist future can look like.

The Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative is looking for a Strategic Communications and Media Relations Consultant or Agency to help us amplify our efforts to advance feminist approaches to foreign policy to reach new global audiences including: governments and civil society in the Global South and North, international media and foreign policy outlets, especially those not traditionally focused on gender.

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Recently, several higher profile women have spoken of integrating a feminist foreign policy into their leadership, including Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister. What is feminist foreign policy, what separates it from a non-feminist foreign policy, why it is relevant now and how can we execute it?

The goal of achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women, adolescents and girls in all their diversity is embedded at the heart of the international community's efforts to address the most pressing global issues.

The aspiration [of foreign policy which centers women’s rights, peace and environmental integrity] is not only an ethical imperative but also benefits global prosperity and security, according to scores of research.

“American foreign policy should reflect the world we live in, a world where half of the population is female,” said U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (CA-12).

“The Paris Peace Forum will not end today. It will carry on through the work that we will invest behind the scenes over the course of the next year to support the ten selected projects.” - Trisha Shetty, President of the Steering Committee of the Paris Peace Forum