Theme 5: Science for Peace and for Safe and Secure Societies
This session examines scientific evidence and analyses of the widespread and destructive consequences of violence against women and girls across a range of contexts, to recommend how gender violence can be prevented and societies made safe and more secure in times of discord and conflict.
Moderator introducing Theme 5: 5-0 Eun Ha Chang, Director, Center for International Development and Cooperation, Korean Women’s Development Institute
- 5-1 Rebecca Blum, Strategic Analyst - Security and Defence Policy and International Affairs and Development, Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations (NCGM), Sweden
Integrating gender perspectives into the planning, execution and evaluation phases of military operations and exercises - 5-2 Fredrik Bondestam, Director, Swedish Centre for Gender Research, U. Gothenburg, Sweden
The pernicious nature of sexual harassment. What’s needed to stop perpetrators - 5-3 Shalva Weil, Senior Researcher, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Ensuring safe societies by femicide prevention. A global perspective. - 5-4 Gunhui Chung, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Hoseo University, and member of research team at GISTeR, Rep. of Korea
Gender empowerment of the society improves resilience in disaster management.
What you will learn
Modules in Theme 5: Science for Peace and for Safe and Secure Societies
Theme 5 Introduction
Prof Chang compares different unexpected natural disaster events in Korea from a gender perspective to show that women and children are more vulnerable and suffer most.
Gender empowerment of the society improves resilience in disaster management
Prof Chung explains that disasters are rarely gender neural. Women and girls are the main victims of natural disasters.
Ensuring safe societies by femicide prevention. A global perspective.
Prof Weil explains that femicide is the killing of women and girls because they are women/girls. Femicide comes in different types, e.g. ‘honour’ killing, sex selection of foetus.
The pernicious nature of sexual harassment. What’s needed to stop perpetrators
Dr Bondestam explains that gender-based harassment is the most common form of harassment in academia.