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Photo of panelists discussing education at U.S. Naval War College's 6th annual Women, Peace and Security Conference.

Naval War College, Brown University co-host Women, Peace, Security conference

Thursday, May 31-01, 2018
Brown University, 54 College Street, Providence, RI 02912

U.S. Naval War College hosted its 6th annual Women, Peace and Security Conference in partnership with Brown University's A. Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, May 31 to June 1, at Brown's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs in Providence, Rhode Island.

Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace laureate and Liberian peace activist, social worker and women’s right activist, speaks during an evening lecture held at U.S. Naval War College (NWC) as part of the 2017 Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Conference at NWC in Newport, Rhode Island.

Nobel laureate speaks at Naval War College Women, Peace and Security Conference

Friday, August 11, 2017
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

2011 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee, who led a women’s peace movement that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003, was the featured speaker at U.S. Naval War College’s Woman, Peace and Security Conference in Newport, Rhode Island last week.

Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben, chief of chaplains of the Navy, participates in the 2016 Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Conference at NWC in Newport, Rhode Island.

Women, Peace, and Security Conference Series: 4th Conference

Wednesday, May 18, 2016
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

The seven panels convened over a two-day period to discuss Women Peace and Security and its ties to several arenas with special emphasis upon food security and religion.