Project Title: Women, Peace, and Security: Understanding Female Participation in the Mongolian Defence Sector
Client: Dallaire Centre of Excellence for Peace and Security
Students: Alessia Iafano, Alexander Morrow, Anshika Srivastava, Nishi Kant Dixit
Faculty Lead: Julian Dierkes
Fieldwork Location: Mongolia
Year: 2024-25
About the Project: This project focusses on exploring the degree of female participation in the Mongolian armed forces, including involvement in Mongolian defense concepts and policies. The team is exploring ground realities, opinions, experiences, and implicit expectations regarding women in decision-making state security among different stakeholder categories, as well as exploring the priorities and needs of local actors involved in shaping defense, peace and security policies, programs & approaches.