Announcement: Empowering Women in International Relations - home - Heinrich Böll Stiftung

FYI – Op-ed award competition sponsored by Atlantic Community, the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, the Gunda Werner Institute, et al. in honor of the tenth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (.pdf of s/res/1325 of October 31 2000):

http://www.atlantic-community.org/index/articles/view/Empowering_Women_in_International_Relations

Some info below excerpted from the webpage description – and note the March 13th deadline:

Awards

The first prize is 900,- EUR. Second prize is 600,- EUR and third prize is 300,-EUR.

Guidelines

Your op-ed should be 500-1000 words long on an issue broadly related to transatlantic security, e.g. the new NATO Strategic Concept, NATO-Russia relations, the Afghanistan mission, piracy, cyber security, energy security, missile defense, terrorism, proliferation, the security implications of climate change, relevance of gender issues in conflict dynamics, or any other security issue that is of importance to both Europe and North America, including less traditional ones. We have a broad understanding of transatlantic relations and security and are open to your thematic suggestions. We appreciate strong theses, bold ideas and new arguments as well as a solution-oriented approach with specific policy recommendations. The op-ed should also be comprehensible to members of the general public and not include dense scientific or technical jargon.

Please submit your original, non-published op-ed in English and through this website. Simplyregister to create an account for free and then click on the “submit article” button on the front page. Mention in the headline field that the submission is for this competition. You can also email your op-ed to staff@atlantic-community.org

Submissions will be edited only for language and clarity, in order to highlight arguments and to level the playing field between English native speakers and participants with other language backgrounds.

Deadline

Please submit your article by March 13, 2011. We encourage early submissions as we will begin publishing all articles that meet the guidelines on a rolling basis from February 2011.

Eligibility

The contest is open to women from NATO Member and Partner States under 40 years of age. Participants must be registered on atlantic-community.org. Each profile must include a personal picture (as all articles on the website are published with an author portrait).