On this Policy Forum Pod, we chat with Jeni Klugman, a lead author of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Index, and discuss what insights this new global ranking can provide to policymakers in building a more just, inclusive and secure world for women.

Dr Jeni Klugman is a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Women in Public Policy program at Harvard University, and Managing Director at the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security. Her previous positions include Director of Gender and Development at the World Bank, and director and lead author of three global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme.

The full report of the 2017-18 Women, Peace and Security Index can be found here: https://giwps.georgetown.edu/the-index/chapters/

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Why security can't neglect gender: Jeni Klugman

Terry Waite is the co-founder of Hostage UK, an organisation that provides support to those taken hostage and their families. But Waite is perhaps better known for his own, terrible, experience being taken hostage.

In 1987, while working as a hostage negotiator for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Waite travelled to Lebanon to negotiate the release of hostages there. While in Beirut, he was captured himself and spent almost five years in captivity, four of which were in solitary confinement.

In the new Policy Forum Pod, he talks about his experience and how being held captive has freed him to see the world in a new way.

To find out more about Hostage UK visit: http://hostageuk.org/

To read Helen Sullivan’s piece on empathy in public policy discussed in this podcast, go to: https://www.policyforum.net/world-needs-now-empathy-integrity-expertise/

Forgiveness and freedom: Terry Waite

The world has just celebrated International Women's Day for 2018. This week we're taking a look at an important part of the movement for gender equality – the issue of violence against women. We're talking with Professor Sally Engle Merry about international efforts to measure violence against women, whether the Sustainable Development Goals are giving momentum to the issue or complicating it still further, and whether the #MeToo movement marks a turning point in tackling gender-based violence. Listen to the podcast here:

Professor Sally Engle Merry is Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University and is also a Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law. She is the author of 16 books and special journal issues looking at issues of international law, human rights, and gender violence.

Tackling violence against women: Sally Engle Merry

On the latest Policy Forum Pod, we talk to Professor Roberta Mann about whether we should tax robots and automation as a way of tackling job displacement and the future of work.

The podcast will be out Thursday 29 March. In the meantime, enjoy this short preview.

Podcast preview: Is it time to tax robots?

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