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Women, Peace, and Security at 25: Implications for Canada and NATO

October 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, a global policy framework that has defined Canada’s feminist foreign policy. Canada has championed Women, Peace and Security at NATO, but the consensus is fraying. Can NATO reconcile its core values with rapidly changing strategic imperatives? Reflecting on the latest developments at NATO and sharing findings from the new edition of her book Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations (Oxford University Press, 2025), Professor Stéfanie von Hlatky will explain how NATO has integrated Women, Peace and Security in policy development and as part of its military activities. By providing a deep dive institutional analysis, she examines the strategic, operational and tactical considerations that play into gender-based analysis in military contexts, while raising important questions about political contestation among allies.

Stéfanie von Hlatky is the Canada Research Chair on Gender, Security, and the Armed Forces, Full Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University, and Fellow with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. She previously held positions at Georgetown University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Dartmouth College, ETH Zurich and was a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of Southern California. Her latest books are Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations (2022; 2025) and a co-edited volume, Total Defence Forces in the 21st Century (2023). In 2025, Dr. von Hlatky was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. She is the founder of Women in International Security – Canada and the Honorary Colonel of the Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment.