Madeleine Rees Lecture: Masculinities in International Affairs

On November 18, Madeleine Rees, Secretary-General of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, joined the Elliott School's new "Masculinities in International Affairs" course, taught by MenEngage Global Co-Director Laxman Belbase and Dr. Scott Weiner, professorial lecturer in political science. Ms. Reese drew on her significant experience with peacekeeping operations and multilateralism in the United Nations to examine how peacekeeping can become corrupted by gendered mechanisms of abuse and power and how multilateral systems can become complicit in the process. Listen to her lecture to hear an unrivaled voice on how peacekeeping can evolve from simply managing conflict to laying the groundwork for lasting peace. Madeleine Rees has been the Secretary-General of WILPF since 2010. She began her career as a lawyer in 1990 and in 1998, she started working as Head of Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina and as gender expert for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. From September 2006 to April 2010, she served as the Head of the Women’s Rights and Gender Unit for the OHCHR. Her work involved describing and outlining how men and women can experience events differently, particularly in post-conflict situations.