In a time marked by uncertainty and multiple crises, the need for innovative responses to current challenges is becoming increasingly important. The global world order demonstrates that the existing instruments and measures of states and multilateral organizations are no longer adequate. One possible response is feminist foreign policy, which aims at a fundamental transformation of global power relations and thus represents a necessary answer to a politics that enforces the rule of the strongest. It is a peace policy that places gender equality and the inclusion of marginalized groups at its core.
As part of the workshop series “Feminist Foreign Policy – Potentials & Reality,” organized by VIDC and WIDE, key policy areas with (potential) foreign policy impact were discussed from a feminist perspective together with experts. The results of these six workshops, which took place between November 2023 and 2025, were summarized in a final document.
Workshop: Feminist decolonial solidarity in development cooperation and international cooperation - an im/possibility?
as part of the Entwicklungstagung from 21 - 23 November 2025 in Innsbruck
with
Radwa Khaled Ibrahim (medico international/ Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
Janine Wurzer (WIDE)
Facilitator: Mara Elena Zöller (Brot für die Welt/WIDE)
Workshop report (German)
Workshop Feminist practice: For greater justice in global trade
Friday, 3 October 2025, 9:30 - 14:00 at HausWirtschaft
with
Miriam Mona Mukalazi (VIDC - Global Dialogue)
Theresa Kofler (Plattform Anders Handeln)
Facilitator: Mara Elena Zöller (WIDE)
Workshop report (German)
Workshop Climate Justice in Focus of Feminist Foreign Policy
Monday, 21 October 2024, 13:00 – 17:00 at Otto Mauer Zentrum
with
Sheena Anderson (formerly Netzwerk F)
Shonali Pachauri (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - IIASA)
Workshop report (english)
Workshop Feministische Perspectivs on Asylum & Migration
Thrusday, 27 June 2024 at C 3 - Centrum für Internationale Entwicklung
with
Judith Kohlenberger (Institut für Sozialpolitik der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
Sangeetha Manavalan (LEFÖ-IBF)
Workshop report (german)
Workshop Feminist Security Policy - Obstacles & Opportunities
Wednesday, 24 April 2024 at the Diplomatic Academy
with
Stephanie Fenkart (International Institute for Peace)
Madita Standke-Erdmann (King’s College London)
Workshop report (german)
Workshop Feminist Foreign Policy from a Postcolonial Perspective
Wednesday, 29 November 2023 at the International Institute for Peace
with Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester)
Workshop report (english)
Kick-off event Feminist Foreign Policy
Tuesday, 28 November 2023 at the Austrian Parliament
with
Ann Linde (former swedish minister of foreign affairs), Kristina Lunz (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy), Toni Haastrup (University of Manchester)
Report (english)