This session shares and discusses emerging research and empirical evidence on three WPS topics:

(1) Eradication of Violence Against Women

Speaker:

Dr. Jeni Klugman, Managing Director of the Institute for Women, Peace and Security at Georgetown University & Senior Adviser at the Stanford University Center for Gender Equality, United States

(2) Disaster, Relief & Recovery

Speaker:

Dr. Tamara Nair, Research Fellow at the Centre Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS Centre), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

(3) COVID-19 pandemic

Speaker:

Prof. Jennifer Curtin, Professor of Politics and Director of the Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand