For over 40 years, the JASON Institute for Peace and Security Studies has been engaged in informing students and young-professionals on matters of international peace and security. JASON regularly organizes exclusive events with leading security stakeholders. Additionally we publish our own quarterly magazine containing sophisticated articles written by both young-professionals as well as prominent academics.
Magazine 44:2 Read about the different roles of women in international peacebuilding, feminist movements in the Arab world, as peacekeepers in the army and as perpetrators in criminal and terrorist organizations, in this issue on WOMEN, CONFLICT & SECURITY.
By Aileen Schuurmans Conflicts often seem to follow a similar pattern: men fight, women and children suffer, and peace is achieved through the external intervention of an armed peacekeeping mission. However, more goes on beneath the surface. We often perceive conflict through a male perspective,...
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are significant and unprecedented, and acts to inform students and young-professionals – the leaders of tomorrow – on those threats is pivotal. To further this goal, JASON facilitates in providing a much needed platform for constructive dialogues.
JASON primarily engages with students and young professionals by means of organizing interactive and instructional events with leading (international) experts. We furthermore are engaged in publishing our own quarterly magazine. Through these activities JASON tries to challenge students and young-professionals – regardless of their sex, age, descent, cultural and religious beliefs – to think about the impact of international peace and security challenges.
During its initial years of existence the activities of JASON mainly focussed on peace and security issues within the Transatlantic domain. However as a result of the changing global geopolitical climate, JASON gradually expanded its scope to international security in the broadest sense of the word. Nowadays, JASON is one of the largest institutes within its discipline in the Netherlands.
