Date: 11 November 2024

Time: 15:00-17:00

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The ATHENA Jean Monnet Chair is pleased to announce an upcoming event as part of our annual Practitioners Engagement Series in cooperation with the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES).

This event zooms in the question of gender in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy. The speakers will touch upon opportunities and challenges of linking the EU’s external action and gender equality agendas into a European Feminist Foreign Policy. They will also reflect upon their experience as gender experts and gender advisors and offer insights on how policies are implemented in specific EU CSDP missions.

The speakers:

Mervi Patosalmi is Gender Expert at Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability in European External Action Service. She has extensive experience in advancing gender equality in various contexts. Before her current job, she worked as Gender Advisor at the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine enhancing gender equality and gender mainstreaming in the Eastern Partnership countries. She has also worked among others in Georgia, Somalia and in her native Finland. The areas of her expertise include women, peace and security; gender mainstreaming various projects and activities; and gender-responsive budgeting. She holds PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Tina Arend Morad is a Gender advisor at the European Union Mission for the Support of Palestinian Police and Rule of Law (EUPOL COPPS). Before joining EUPOL COPPS she was the Gender Advisor of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron mission (TIPH). She was also the Co-Founder and Director of Refugees Welcome Stockholm, in which she was awarded the prestigious Raoul Wallenberg Prize in 2016 for her humanitarian efforts during the refugee crisis of fall 2015.

Chiara Tagliani is the current Gender Advisor of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), where she also served as Legal Officer for the Mission’s Judges Unit dealing mainly with war crimes cases. Prior to joining the CSDP Missions world, she spent several years at the OSCE Presence in Albania and the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. She has also experience from the non-governmental sector, having worked for non-governmental organizations in Latin America within the disarmament portfolio.

The “Foreign Policy Speech” by Máté Zsédely-Holler can be accessed here.

It was originally written for the ATHENA Jean Monnet Chair MSc Course “The EU and the Post-Soviet Space” taught by Dr. Olga Burlyuk. It is published as part of our mission to showcase peer-leading papers written by students during their studies. This work can be used for background reading and research, but should not be cited as an expert source or used in place of scholarly articles/books.

The “Foreign Policy Speech” by Adam Vittek can be accessed here.

It was originally written for the ATHENA Jean Monnet Chair MSc Course “The EU and the Post-Soviet Space” taught by Dr. Olga Burlyuk. It is published as part of our mission to showcase peer-leading papers written by students during their studies. This work can be used for background reading and research, but should not be cited as an expert source or used in place of scholarly articles/books.