Author: Natalia Bonilla
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Interview with Michelle Jackson Riewer: Ending the Walk for Water
Millions of women and girls around the world lack access to clean water. In some rural areas and cultures, they are the ones walking up to 4 miles to collect water (not necessarily safe to drink) several times a day negatively affecting their opportunities for education, work and living a healthy and dignified life. Why…
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Interview with Dr. Luke Moffett: Reparations in Post-Conflict Societies
What are reparations and how are they different from other transitional justice mechanisms? How are reparations from war different from those of dictatorships, legacies of slavery and colonization? Do reparations help people “heal”, individually and collectively, wounds from the past? If so, how? What can we learn from the case studies of Guatemala, Peru, Northern…
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Roundtable Discussion: Countering Militarized Masculinities for Feminist Peace
In which ways militarization and militarized masculinities affect our cultures, states and social structures? How the patriarchal pact shapes perceptions of “manhood” from an early age? Why is it hard for societies and/or states to “properly” address or deconstruct militarized masculinities – and the continuum of violence – IF and WHEN seeking to advance feminist…
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Feminist Foreign Policy 2.0? Germany Announces Its FFP Model
Are we reaching the next era of Feminist Foreign Policies? In response to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, is Sweden’s pioneer formula the “safe” way to go for states in Europe? If so, if not, why? A commentary on the latest announcement of Germany first ffp model. Listen to my latest podcast episode here Follow on Instagram, Twitter…
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FFP Research in Australia and the Global South, An Interview with Alice Ridge and Liz Gill-Atkinson
What influences the announcement and design of a feminist foreign policy? How “efficient” and “important” is the use of the word “feminism” in this field? How it affects ffp implementation and domestic and international environments? What are some key critiques, debates and decolonial views on current ffps coming from the Global South? In Australia, there…
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Female Entrepreneurship & The Status Quo
Women Entrepreneurs: To launch a startup or a new business, as a woman, is revolutionary. In patriarchal and capitalist systems, becoming a female entrepreneur often means breaking inner and external status quos: Familiar, social and cultural conditionings on “who” and “how” to “be” and “behave” as a “woman” in public and private spheres Fears, stereotypes,…
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