Traprock Center for Peace and Justice Director Pat Hynes at a local climate action event in Greenfield, MA on April 29, 2017. Photo by Diana Roberts, used with permission.

By Nancy Price
Co-chair, Earth Democracy Issue Committee

August 2021

On Saturday, August 14 at 2:30 pm PDT / 4:30 CDT / 5:30pm EDT, the Ann Arbor Branch, DISARM/End Wars and Earth Democracy Issue Committees will present “Feminist Foreign Policy: A Path to Peace, Freedom and Justice” by Dr. Patricia Hynes.

Drawing on a wide range of global statistics and evidence from the 20-year womanstats.org project, Dr. Patricia Hynes will discuss the link between the security and behavior of nation states and the situation of security of women and girls within those states. She will discuss the evidence that including women at all levels of government in policy development, planning and negotiations can and will improve not only the situation and status of women, but create a process and the conditions for peaceful, secure, and productive lives for all.
 
Dr. Hynes works, writes and speaks on peace, social justice, women’s equality and environmental justice issues and directed the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice in western Massachusetts from 2010-2021.

The impact of US militarism on countries and people, especially women, across the world, is a major focus of her writing, speaking, and activism. She is a member-at-large of the Women’s International League for Peace and Justice and has partnered with WILPF Sierra Leone and WILPF Cameroon since the WILPF 2018 Congress in Ghana.

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