HESIRSC is excited to welcome Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese who will speak with us about Leadership and National Security. Dr. Johnson-Freese will outline the foundational concepts from her popular class “Women, Peace, and Security” which advocates for a comprehensive approach to peacebuilding. She’ll then share with us the ideas behind her new book, Leadership in War and Peace: Masculine and Feminine, and how these bridge to WPS.
If you have questions you’d like to add to the discussion, please submit them in advance to hesirsc@g.harvard.edu
Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese is a Senior Fellow with Women in International Security (WIIS) and served as a University Professor and Chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval War College (NWC) between 2002-2022.
As a political scientist, she has published multiple articles on aspects of Women, Peace & Security, particularly focusing on raising awareness regarding the framework generally and within security communities specifically, believing that you can’t implement what you don’t know about. She often provides webinar presentations introducing audiences to the women, peace, and security framework and is the author of Women, Peace & Security: An Introduction (2018) and Women v Women: The Case for Cooperation (2022). Over the arc of her academic career, her research also focused on space security, authoring seven books in that field and over 100 published articles, many with a particular focus on the Chinese space program.
She has testified before Congress on multiple occasions about space issues and served on the National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board. Dr. Johnson-Freese has also published multiple articles and written a book, Educating America’s Military, on Professional Military Education (PME). She testified before a Congressional House Armed Service subcommittee on PME reform in May 2022, including discussion of the need for inclusion of Women, Peace & Security in PME curricula.