Foreign Policy

In this 5th 'Retrieved' podcast series episode, which is published here as a transcript, we discuss with Maria Hadjipavlou about her work for the divided communities in Cyprus as well as about a feminist approach to conflict resolution: Feminist approach makes us revisit the norms and the values that sustained those militaristic and those patriarchal structures that fed the conflict culture.

In this 4th 'Retrieved' podcast series episode, which is published here as a transcript, we discuss with Lucia Yar the history of feminist foreign policy and its elaboration in academia: We shouldn't be kind of pushing academia somewhere to a different room. We shouldn't be dividing academia from think tanks, from politicians. They always need to kind of find the ground. And I think the feminist foreign policy is supposed to create that space for all these elements to come together and we see that this is happening.

In this 3rd 'Retrieved' podcast series episode, which is published here as a transcript, we talk with Neda-Noraie Kia about the gender aspect of migration policy and its relation to foreign policy: If we take the idea of feminism serious, we really have this comprehensive understanding of gender. There is huge potential for a feminist approach to really help us create better migration policies for sure.

In this 2nd 'Retrieved' podcast series episode, which is published here as a transcript, we talk with Merle Spellerberg and Renata Hessmann Dalaqua on the gender aspect of arms trade and defense: a broader inclusive decision-making process and a feminist stance in this policy area would definitely lead to more ambitious efforts to not only reduce weapons, but also reduce the harm caused by weapons.

By unpacking the dimensions of power in interconnected structures of inequality, intersectionality can contribute to profound social change.

With almost 30 per cent female members, the Afghan parliament had been a pioneer in the region for years, thanks to a fixed quota (the percentage of female MPs was even ahead of some EU countries like Bulgaria, Czechia or Croatia). When the country was taken over by the Taliban, most women parliamentarians were forced to leave their homes; the majority currently live in Greece. 

Adopted largely by the West, FFP advocacy needs to address Global South dilemmas, contradictions, and tensions for adoption in non-West geographies.

It has been now almost one year since Germany introduced its feminist foreign and development policy. For FAIR SHARE of Women Leaders, this endeavour meant to influence especially the German process of implementing these feminist policies.