Women in International Security Queen's

This is for all types of attendees (except roundtable chairs and speakers).

$5 of the $9 registration fee will be donated to Dawn House Women's Services.

Delegate Admission

WIIS Queen's is excited to be putting on its 2023 annual conference "Women in Conflict: Survivors, Soldiers, Peacebuilders". We hope you can attend!  We will be donation $5 of the $9 registration fee to Dawn House Women Services. More information can be found at this link: <a href="https://www.dawnhouse.ca/about">https://www.dawnhouse.ca/about</a> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">WIIS-Queen’s is a chapter of WIIS-Canada and WIIS-Global. We are a gender-inclusive organization that seeks to promote the advancement of women in the field of international peace and security in all of its forms. Through our mentorship program and annual conference, WIIS-Queen’s uses its extensive network to foster an inclusive community and guide others toward achieving their professional goals.  <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">This year, our annual conference is focused on exploring the diverse roles that women take on during conflict, peace building, and post-conflict reconstruction. Primarily, we hope to consider the nuanced positions of women as combatants, peacemakers, and survivors. The conference will explore these ideas through a series of panels focused on identifying problems, analyzing specific cases, and proposing innovative solutions. These panels will be complemented by an opening keynote that functions as a challenge to the conference and a closing keynote.  Panel and Roundtable Descriptions: Panel 1: "A Continuum of Violence: Considering Underrepresented Issues in Gender and Conflict"  <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">This panel will identify the most pertinent issues and highlight important theoretical considerations regarding gendered roles during armed conflict. Panellists will discuss how women are perceived and treated during wartime and the roles they take on as a result of or despite these factors. Roundtables 1 and 2: Global Perspectives  <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">The round tables will bring together scholars, practitioners, journalists, and policymakers with diverse experiences doing fieldwork, working, and researching armed conflict. Panel 2: "Women and Wars of the Future: Proposing Solutions and Making Predictions"  <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">This panel will look to the future, asking questions about what the world could be like and proposing innovative solutions to get us there. Panellists from academia, government, the military, and civil society organizations will draw on their varied expertise to consider the future of women’s roles in wartime and peace building. <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">Conference Schedule: <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">8:30-9:15 AM        Arrival, registration and coat-check. Continental breakfast will be available.9:15-9:30 AM         Land acknowledgement and opening remarks9:30-10:15 AM      Opening Keynote10:30-10:35 AM    Short break10:35-11:35 AM    Panel 1: "A Continuum of Violence: Considering Underrepresented Issues in                                        Gender and Conflict"11:35-11:50 AM    Panel 1 Question and Answer Period 11:50-12:15 PM    Morning break12:15-1:15 PM      Case study round table One: Global Perspectives1:15-2:15 PM        Lunch2:15-2:20 PM        Afternoon remarks2:20-3:20 <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">PM        Case study round table Two: Global Perspectives3:20-3:25 <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">PM        Short break3:25-4:25 <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">PM        Panel 2: "Women and Wars of the Future: Proposing Solutions and Making                                Predictions" 4:25-4:40 <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">PM        Panel 2 question and answer period4:40-5:05 <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">PM        Afternoon break5:05-5:55 <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">PM       Closing keynote: "Meeting Challenges on the Ground" 5:55-6:10 <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">PM       Closing keynote question and answer period6:10-6:30 <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);font-family:Roboto;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">PM       Closing remarks

Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{lastname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">Last name, Thank you for registering for our annual conference! We are so excited for you to listen, learn, and discuss at "Women in Conflict: Survivors, Soldiers, and Peacebuilders". You will be receiving more information regarding the day's programming in the coming weeks, but regardless, we'll see you: 📭   at the Donald Gordon Hotel and Conference Centre ⌚️   on Saturday, March 11, 2023, at 08:30 a.m. Kind regards,Morgan Morgan Fox and Jen KozeljCo-Presidents, Queen's Women in International Security wiis@clubs.queensu.ca

WIIS Queen's is excited to be putting on its 2023 annual conference "Women in Conflict: Survivors, Soldiers, Peacebuilders". We hope you can attend!  We will be donation $5 of the $9 registration fee to Dawn House Women Services. More information can be found at this link: <a href="https://www.dawnhouse.ca/about">https://www.dawnhouse.ca/about</a> WIIS-Queen’s is a chapter of WIIS-Canada and WIIS-Global. We are a gender-inclusive organization that seeks to promote the advancement of women in the field of international peace and security in all of its forms. Through our mentorship program and annual conference, WIIS-Queen’s uses its extensive network to foster an inclusive community and guide others toward achieving their professional goals.  This year, our annual conference is focused on exploring the diverse roles that women take on during conflict, peace building, and post-conflict reconstruction. Primarily, we hope to consider the nuanced positions of women as combatants, peacemakers, and survivors. The conference will explore these ideas through a series of panels focused on identifying problems, analyzing specific cases, and proposing innovative solutions. These panels will be complemented by an opening keynote that functions as a challenge to the conference and a closing keynote.  Panel and Roundtable Descriptions: Panel 1: "A Continuum of Violence: Considering Underrepresented Issues in Gender and Conflict"  This panel will identify the most pertinent issues and highlight important theoretical considerations regarding gendered roles during armed conflict. Panellists will discuss how women are perceived and treated during wartime and the roles they take on as a result of or despite these factors. Roundtables 1 and 2: Global Perspectives  The round tables will bring together scholars, practitioners, journalists, and policymakers with diverse experiences doing fieldwork, working, and researching armed conflict. Panel 2: "Women and Wars of the Future: Proposing Solutions and Making Predictions"  This panel will look to the future, asking questions about what the world could be like and proposing innovative solutions to get us there. Panellists from academia, government, the military, and civil society organizations will draw on their varied expertise to consider the future of women’s roles in wartime and peace building. Conference Schedule: 8:30-9:15 AM        Arrival, registration and coat-check. Continental breakfast will be available.9:15-9:30 AM         Land acknowledgement and opening remarks9:30-10:15 AM      Opening Keynote10:30-10:35 AM    Short break10:35-11:35 AM    Panel 1: "A Continuum of Violence: Considering Underrepresented Issues in                                        Gender and Conflict"11:35-11:50 AM    Panel 1 Question and Answer Period 11:50-12:15 PM    Morning break12:15-1:15 PM      Case study round table One: Global Perspectives1:15-2:15 PM        Lunch2:15-2:20 PM        Afternoon remarks2:20-3:20 PM        Case study round table Two: Global Perspectives3:20-3:25 PM        Short break3:25-4:25 PM        Panel 2: "Women and Wars of the Future: Proposing Solutions and Making                                Predictions" 4:25-4:40 PM        Panel 2 question and answer period4:40-5:05 PM        Afternoon break5:05-5:55 PM       Closing keynote: "Meeting Challenges on the Ground" 5:55-6:10 PM       Closing keynote question and answer period6:10-6:30 PM       Closing remarks

Women in International Security Queen's

Women in Conflict: Survivors, Soldiers, Peacebuilders

421 Union St

Delegate Admission

CA$9