The GPS Next Generation Symposium will convene an international cohort of 20-24 graduate students and young professionals for an intensive 5-day program examining international security challenges from a GPS perspective.
The symposium is scheduled to take place November 11-15, 2019 in Washington, D.C.
The 2019 Next Gen Symposium is a part of a larger WIIS initiative to bridge existing divides between the traditional security community and the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) community. Through this initiative, we seek to (1) advance knowledge about the gender dimensions of international security challenges; and (2) support a community of international security experts that is both diverse and knowledgeable about gender dynamics of complex international security challenges.
WIIS is grateful to Carnegie Corporation of New York for its generous support of the 2019 GPS Symposium.
WIIS recived 500 applicants for the 24 spots making the selection process extremely competitive.
WIIS is happy to report that it recieved its largest and most diverse pool of applicants to date. Some details about the make up of each round of the selection process can be found below.
The nationalities of the final cohort are represented on the map below.
Carnegie Corporation of New York is America’s oldest grant making foundation, established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. In keeping with this mandate, the Corporation’s work focuses on the issues that Andrew Carnegie considered of paramount importance: international peace, the advancement of education and knowledge, and the strength of our democracy
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation continues its historic commitments to the role of journalism in a responsible and responsive democracy, as well as the strength and vitality of our headquarters city, Chicago.
Ploughshares Fund is an anti-nuclear proliferation organization pooling and directing donations from wealthy individuals and philanthropies. It is the largest grant-making foundation in the United States focusing exclusively on peace and security issues. Founded in 1981 by Sally Lilienthal, the Ploughshares Fund has: funded American and Soviet scientists who first demonstrated the feasibility of verifying a treaty banning nuclear weapon tests; stopped the development of controversial and unnecessary nuclear weapons technologies like the ‘bunker buster’ in the post-9/11 era; brought together 30 organizations in a campaign to win ratification of the New START Treaty, reducing US – and Russian – deployed strategic weapons; and supported crucial diplomatic efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, including the historic 1996 treaty to ban all nuclear tests. Ploughshares Fund has a unique approach to grantmaking that delivers the best returns for peace and security time and again.
The Nuclear Threat Initiative protects lives, the environment, and our quality of life now and for future generations. NTI works with leaders, partners, and citizens from around the world to develop policies to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons, prevent their use, and end them as a threat. NTI designs innovative threat-reduction projects that show governments the way and build momentum and support for action. NTI works with presidents and prime ministers, scientists and technicians, educators and students, and people from around the world. NTI collaborates with partners worldwide, raises awareness, and advocates for creative solutions.
Liechtenstein is a country with no military force (since 1868) or current defense agreements with neighbors; as such its sovereignty relies on the upholding of international law. The Embassy of Liechtenstein seeks to build an engaged partnership and dialogue with the US not only in Washington but throughout the 50 states at all levels, from political and economic to cultural and academic. The WIIS Gender, Peace, and Security Policy Roundtables and Policy Briefs are supported by the Embassy of Liechtenstein. The Embassy is hosting the Next Generation Participants on Wednesday November 13, 2019 at a reception.
The German Embassy is the official representation of the Federal Government of Germany in the United States. Decades of US-German cooperation have created a tightknit fabric of bonds. The German Embassy aims to further strengthen relations in Washington and across the US, across all areas of the USGerman relationship. H.E. Emily Haber, German Ambassador to the United States, will be receiving the Next Generation Participants on November 11, 2019.