No Women No Peace

Julie Billaud is a legal and political anthropologist who has held positions in the United Kingdom (University of Sussex), France (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and Germany (Humboldt University and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) prior to joining the Graduate Institute, Geneva in 2019. She is the author of Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan (2015, Pennsylvania University Press). After her PhD, she redirected her attention to Islam in Europe and the contemporary transformations of the European public sphere through its encounter with Islamic difference. Based on fieldwork in London in shariah councils, law firms specializing in Islamic law, the 2013 World Islamic Economic Forum, and the flourishing Muslim marriage industry, the research documents everyday practices of Islamic law in Britain. It highlights how state interventions participate in contradictory ways in the making of a legal field, which is both embraced for its commercial potential and contested…

For episode 2 of No Women No Peace, Birsu spoke with Raefah Makki and Helen Morris about the Refugee cause and political crisis. Raefah Makki is currently the head of Campaign and Advocacy at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). She has been working to bring the UNHCR and the Refugee cause closer to people’s minds and hearts. Prior to working for the UNHCR she worked for several non-profit organizations such as Greenpeace and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC). Helen Morris is currently the Senior Policy and Evaluation Officer at UNHCR and has been working with UNHCR since 2001. She is an attorney with long-standing commitment to public service, including humanitarian work, refugee law, policy development, and liaison with government and operational partners. Her specialties include: Humanitarian work, Evaluation, refugee law, resettlement, policy development, liaison with governments and operational partners, oversight of field operations, management of humanitarian operations.

For episode 1 of No Women No Peace, Birsu spoke with Mossarat Qadeem and Nadine Puechguirbal about Gender and Security. Nadine has 20 years of experience in gender-related issues with a focus on: Gender mainstreaming in peace operations and humanitarian crises; Sexual Violence in Conflict; Preventing and responding to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and Safeguarding;Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. She has worked for the United Nations & the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement being deployed in Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Laos, Etc. She has designed, developed and delivered gender-related training/capacity building modules to peacekeepers, military, police and civilian staff, as well as humanitarian workers. She has also coordinated the work of 14 UN entities on conflict-related sexual violence and gender-based violence in emergencies as well as successfully engaged in fund-raising/resource mobilization at the UN HQ in NY. Mossarat Qadeem is the co-founder of PAIMAN Alumni…

Bold Moves Only is excited to present No Women No Peace, a podcast where Birsu Karaarslan speaks with women from around the world who are fighting for peace. Get ready for new episodes that covers a different subject or conflict for each one, as we bring together women working on the same issues.