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Women in International Security’s Dr. Karin Johnston sits down with co-authors Joyce Kaufman and Kristen Williams to discuss their new book, Gender Race and Power: Examining IR through an Intersectional Lens. WIIS President & CEO Lauren Van Metre provides welcome remarks. Today, we face an increasingly complex and shifting security environment, and the book details, in its chapters, how we gain explanatory power by applying an intersectional analysis to emerging problems—climate, the environment—but also in more mainstream IR issues: war, peace, and security; human rights and humanitarian intervention, and the global economy and development. Watch as Karin, Joyce, and Kristen discuss the importance of the book’s intersectional approach and its timely relevance to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
(This book talk was recorded live on September 16th, 2025).
Angola has one of the lowest levels of education in the world despite being a country richly endowed with natural resources. In this video conversation, education activist Rafael Marques de Morais explains how making education a human right can turn this situation around, empowering youth and contributing to the well-being of Angolans. As Executive Director of the Ufolo Good Governance Center, Rafael has been working with the private sector to build badly needed schools in Angola. He is also Senior Advisor to the Extractive Industries and Human Development Center at the Institute of World Affairs. Rafael is joined by Gregory Pirio, Director of the Extractive Industries and Human Development Center, who has studied the role of schools in the promotion of peace and social cohesion. Veteran journalist Paul Ndiho leads the conversation.
This video podcast is a collaboration between Ndiho Media and the Institute of World Affairs.