Peace, Security, Women's Rights, & Peacebuilding in Challenging Times

This OxPeace annual Day-Conference explores developments in peacebuilding at all levels, and in particular in the involvement of women, in the 25 years since UNSC Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and the 30 years since the 1995 Beijing Declaration on the rights of women. Examples from different areas and levels will be explored, from Track 3 (grassroots) to Tracks 2 (regional, or confidential contacts) and Track 1 (national politics, international diplomacy). Several speakers will present fresh research.

Barry Xiangyu Lin

Barry Lin

Xiangyu (Barry) Lin is an MPhil candidate in International Relations at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on international political economy, great power politics, and international organisations, with particular interest in how economic instruments such as sanctions, trade policies, and investment agreements shape global power dynamics and institutional resilience.

Warriors in Washington: World War II and the Politics of American Power

How did the US Army emerge as one of the most powerful political organizations in the United States following World War II? In Warriors in Washington: Henry Stimson, the US Army, and the Politics of American Power in World War II, Grant H. Golub asserts that this remarkable shift was the result of the Army’s political masters consciously transforming the organization into an active political player throughout the war.
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