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Closing the Gender Gap in Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament

Mon. June 24th, 2019
Washington, DC

Nearly twenty years after the UN Security Council called for the increased participation of women in peace and security decision-making, how much progress has been made in the arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament field? After surveying four decades of multilateral meetings and conducting interviews with diplomats, a new United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research report, Still Behind the Curve, finds that women remain underrepresented in key forums and sheds light on the obstacles hindering their full and equal participation. 

Carnegie hosted a presentation of this new report and an interactive discussion on how to close the gender gap.

Renata Dwan

Renata Dwan is director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, which published the report Still Behind the Curve.

Laura Holgate

Laura Holgate serves as vice president for materials risk management at NTI. She led the design and launch of Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy. 

James Acton

James Acton holds the Jessica T. Mathews Chair and is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Foreign Policy
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event speakers

Renata Dwan

Laura Holgate

James M. Acton

Jessica T. Mathews Chair, Co-director, Nuclear Policy Program

Acton holds the Jessica T. Mathews Chair and is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.