Searching for the Women Peace and Security Agenda in Inter-Regional Sites

On 30 May 2018 I gave a lecture at the University of Leipzig on the relationship between the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU), in particular regarding peace and security in Africa. The evening commenced with the lecture AU-EU interregionalism, the evolution of EU foreign relations towards Africa as well as the gendered dimension of peace and security policies. Thereafter Katharina Döring (Project B7, SFB 1199, Leipzig U) engaged me in a panel interview to deepen some of these aspects of the lecture before opening up for the general discussion. As the significance of the Women Peace and Security Agenda within the interregional relations between the EU and AU emerged as one of the focal points during the discussion, I was invited to recall my main arguments regarding this timely topic in a blog post.