Rights, Representation, and Resources: Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy

The Kent Global Leadership Program on Conflict Resolution and the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies present:

Rights, Representation, and Resources: The Legacy of Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy

With Margot Wallström, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden

Introduced by Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Director, Kent Global Leadership Program on Conflict Resolution; Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs; Director of International Conflict Resolution Specialization

Moderated by Yasmine Ergas, Director of the Specialization on Gender and Public Policy and Senior Lecturer in Discipline in International and Public Affairs

*Lunch will be provided

Margot Wallström Bio:

Ms. Margot Wallström was elected to the Swedish parliament in 1979 before serving as Minister for Youth, Women and Consumer Affairs from 1988 to 1991, Minister of Culture from 1994 to 1996, and Minister of Social Affairs from 1996 to 1998. In 1999, she worked with Worldview Global Media in Colombo, Sri Lanka. From 1999 to 2004, Ms Wallström was the European Commissioner for the Environment and then first Vice President of the European Commission from 2004 to 2010. In 2010, the United Nations appointed her the first Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. From 2012-2014 she was Chair of the Board of Lund University, Sweden. She then served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden from 2014-2019.

Yasmine Ergas Bio:

Yasmine Ergas is the Director of the Specialization on Gender and Public Policy and Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She has recently stepped down from serving as Interim Director of Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. She is engaged in several Columbia institutes and programs, and is the co-founder and co-chair of the University's Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Council as well as of the international network on Women and Gender in Global Affairs. Her recent work focuses on the nexus between contemporary illiberal governments and movements and gender politics, and on the establishment of an early warning system that may alert to risks to gender-related rights and to gender studies. She has worked extensively on the transnational market in reproductive services and its implications for women's rights. Yasmine earned her BA at the University of Sussex; laurea from the University of Rome; and, JD from Columbia Law School. Among her numerous honors and grants, she has been a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and was recently appointed an inaugural fellow of the Vartan Gregorian Research Grants by the Institute for International Education and the Scholars Rescue Fund. Her recent works include a coedited volume on Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World (Columbia University Press, 2017, 2019) and essays on feminism and illiberalism.