In 2014, Sweden adopted the world’s first explicitly “feminist” foreign policy (FFP). In recent years, several countries have relabeled their foreign policy as ''feminist''. To date, Canada, France, Mexico, Spain, Luxembourg, Germany, and Chile have all adopted some form of a FFP and the number of countries adopting these continues to grow.

Currently, a public conversation is being held concerning Germany's feminist foreign policy commitment. Living in a world in which international agreements and the dynamics of the international system are shaped by the colonial legacies perpetuating inequalities and injustices, it is important to reflect on the approaches taken toward domestic and foreign feminist policies. 

In countries that are implementing FFP, have they managed to disrupt the disparities of power, geopolitical inequalities, and domination? 

Does the development and implementation of a FFP center on the lived realities of marginalized people as well as indigenous and black feminist critiques of the European hegemonic notion of race, gender, sexuality, and class?

This panel aims to raise awareness and reflect on FFP through intersectional and decolonial feminist thought and practices. The panel will also discuss the challenges countries have faced in implementing feminist foreign policies and what we can expect from a FFP that is still embedded in a world where realpolitik is the norm. Further topics of discussion will be decolonial self-determination demands, militant feminism, and the feminist movement in Kurdistan and Turkey.

Join us for an important conversation with experts and advocates from diverse regional contexts in order to exchange ideas on establishing decolonial feminist foreign policies that could lead to a global shift in power.