GCRF Women Peace and Security Hub

The Hub will deliver innovative interdisciplinary research on and impact towards achieving gender justice and inclusive security in conflict-affected societies. In doing so, the Hub addresses the overlap of three major policy fields: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality; SDG 16 on peace, justice and strong institutions; and the implementation of the United Nations (UN) Security Council Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Each tackles a major barrier to human development and security, intractable in large part because of the scale and complexity of gender inequality across diverse contexts, exacerbated by strong resistance to change from vested interests. These closely related challenges are of major significance both for the UKs contribution towards international development goals and for the global research community which provides critical scrutiny of them.