Putting on the 'Gender Glasses': Response to the War in Ukraine in the Transatlantic Security
On December 19, you are welcome to join the high-level #RSF2022 concluding discussion: "Putting on the 'Gender Glasses': Response to the War in Ukraine in the Transatlantic Security Space".
Please confirm your participation by registering here: https://ej.uz/RSF2022_FINAL
For the concluding in-person discussion, we are happy to host three distinguished guests:
- Baiba Braže, Assistant Secretary-General for Public Diplomacy, NATO;
- Gunda Reire, Parliamentary Secretary at the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
- LCol Melanie Lake, Canadian Armed Forces Advisor to Canada’s Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security.
The discussion will be moderated by our amazing colleague Elizabete Vizgunova, Researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs and a journalist at TVNET Group.
As we speak calmly from Riga, Russia continues sending rockets toward any possible targets that women traditionally represent, including schools and kindergartens, hospitals, children's and maternity hospitals, and other populated areas. Reports about the killing of civilians, including children and women, as well as women being raped and murdered by Russian soldiers, are voiced loudly in the international press. Russia's approach has even been called a "deliberate strategy" by the UN Secretary-General.
The case of the war in Ukraine serves as an excellent case study to assess the capacity of the Western community to employ the "gender glasses" when providing assistance to the millions of women facing violence and psychological distress. It brings attention to several #WPS pillars:
- The protection of women and children in armed conflict.
- Women's leadership in all levels of conflict resolution.
- The relief and recovery which has been provided by various international and humanitarian actors both in Ukraine and abroad.
The discussion will interrogate several aspects of the efforts to promote the protection, relief, and recovery of women, as well as promoting women's leadership in Ukraine by the Transatlantic community.
Register and see you there!
2 comments - Putting on the 'Gender Glasses': Response to the War in Ukraine in the Transatlantic Security
Within next several weeks, once the wet ground gets dry and with Spring it becomes more solid, the Ukrainians will be able to wage a massive counterattack involving and utilizing the newly delivered western tanks such as Challenger and Leopard 2 tanks and Bradley, Stryker, AMX-10 and Marder infantry fighting vehicles. These battle tanks and vehicles have much more capabilities and superior firepower, high tech options vs. the Russian equipment. If Ukraine will have enough number of the tanks and fighting vehicles, they should be able to start a massive counterattack relatively soon and liberate more of its occupied territories across Donbass, Luhansk and at a later stages Crimea as well.
Right now, the only strategy wanted war criminal Putin utilizes against Ukraine is to keep inflicting massive civilian casualties, terror and fear, destroying Ukrainian civil infrastructure and keep attacking these civilian targets to inflict more terror and leave the Ukrainians without electricity or water supply. It feels like Putin is utilizing the usual Russian military playbook he used in Georgia, Chechnya, Crimea and Syria: win the war by spilling more civilian blood, inflict more civilian terror and keep committing more war crimes to further inflict more fear and terror.
Hopefully the NATO members, the US especially will be able to throw in more weaponry, especially the F-16 fighter jets, hopefully higher range MGM-140 ATACMS rockets, counter rocket C-RAM weapons systems to better fight the Iranian drones and more for air defenses to counter the Iranian drones and ballistic missiles. The advanced Western fighter jets will be a vital tool to win this war, without these fighters the we are looking into a more prolonged war, that might last few more years. The F-16 fighter jets can provide important offensive capabilities and support the ground force efforts.
If Ukraine gets all the weaponry and equipment it needs, the Ukrainian armed forces should be able to clear Donbass and Lugansk within this year, Crimea most likely will also be de-occupied sometime in 2024. However, with the Russian defeat the Western powers should force the Russian Federation to de-occupy and leave all occupied territories of Moldova, Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Samachablo (so called South Ossetia) and Nagorno-Karabakh. Ukraine will be victorious and the Russian imperialism will once again be defeated. With the Ukrainian victory the world will forever destroy Russia’s imperialistic ambitions, Russian nationalism and this will save future generations from future wars and peace will definitely follow.
Within next weeks once the muddy ground gets dry and becomes more solid, the Ukrainians will be able to wage a massive counterattack involving and utilizing the newly delivered western tanks Challenger and Leopard 2 tanks and Bradley, Stryker, AMX-10 and Marder infantry fighting vehicles. These battle tanks and vehicles have much more superior firepower and high tech options vs. the Russian equipment. If Ukraine will have enough number of the tanks and fighting vehicles, they should be able to start a massive counterattack and liberate more of its occupied territories across Donbass, Luhansk and at a later stages Crimea.
The only strategy for the wanted war criminal Putin now is to keep inflicting massive civilian terror, casualties on the Ukrainians and keep attacking the civilian infrastructure to starve them and leave the Ukrainians without electricity or water supply. It feels like Putin is utilizing the usual Russian military playbook he used in Georgia, Chechnya, Crimea and Syria: win the war by spilling more civilian blood, inflict more civilian terror and keep committing more war crimes to further inflict more fear and terror.
Hopefully the NATO members, the US especially will be able to throw in more weaponry, especially the F-16 fighter jets, hopefully higher range MGM-140 ATACMS rockets, counter rocket C-RAM weapons systems to better fight the Iranian drones and more for air defenses to counter the Iranian drones and ballistic missiles.
With such phase this war will most likely end in 2023 or maximum with Crimea’s liberation within few months of the start of 2024. The Russian forces will be also forced to leave Moldova, Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Samachablo (so called South Ossetia), Nagorno-Karabakh and Syria. Ukraine will be victorious and the Russians should be very concerned about the fate that awaits afterwards. With the Ukrainian victory the world will forever destroy Russia’s imperialistic ambitions, Russian nationalism and this will save future generations from future wars and peace will definitely follow.