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Gretchen Baldwin
Researcher
Gretchen Baldwin
Gretchen Baldwin is a Researcher in the SIPRI Peace Operations and Conflict Management Programme, where her work focuses on gender and peace operations. Prior to joining SIPRI, Gretchen spent three-and-a-half years at the International Peace Institute (New York, NY) where she was first an Assistant Editor before joining the Women, Peace, and Security team to lead the gender in peace operations research track. Gretchen has worked previously in the United States, Cameroon, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Subject expertise
Gender and peace operations, masculinities, memory and commemoration, political violence, community engagement and protection
Regional expertise
Global, Central Africa, United States
CONTACT Gretchen Baldwin
Languages
English, French
Education
MIA in International Security Policy, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs; BA in International Studies from Hope College.
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Where next for the women, peace and security agenda? (Blog, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Assessing the Effectiveness of European Union Civilian CSDP Missions Involved in Security Sector Reform: The Cases of Afghanistan, Mali and Niger (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2024)
- The Image and the Perception: Gender-responsive Strategic Communications in EU Civilian CSDP Missions (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2024)
- Considering the Future of Gender and Peace Operations: Strategic Debates and Operational Challenges (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
External publications
- Baldwin, G. and Hynes, T., The Securitization of Gender: A Primer, The Global Observatory (Oct. 2022)
- Baldwin, G., Dier, A., Masculinities and Violent Extremism, International Peace Institute (June 2022)
- Baldwin, G., Expanding Conceptions of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence among Military Peacekeepers, International Peace Institute (June 2022)
- Baldwin G., Sherman J., “Peace Operations Still Exclude Women, but A4P+ Can Change That”, Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) (Feb. 2022)
- Baldwin G., “From Female Engagement Teams to Engagement Platoons: The Evolution of Gendered Community Engagement in UN Peace Operations”, International Peace Institute (Nov. 2021)
- Baldwin G., ”Rwanda’s Kwibuka Remembrance Reinvigorates Ethnic Divisions” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage blog (April 2021)
- Baldwin G., Johnson D., “Women in Peacekeeping: Signs of Change at the United Nations?”, The Global Observatory, (Sep. 2020)
- Baldwin G., “Nation Building Confessions: Carceral Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda”, The Ethics Forum (thematic issue: “The Ethical Challenges of Recovering Historical Memory”) (Aug. 2020)
- Baldwin G., “Expanding Gendered Understandings Key to Protection Concerns” The Global Observatory (Nov. 2019)
- Baldwin G., “Constructing Identity through Commemoration: Kwibuka and the Rise of Survivor Nationalism in Post-Conflict Rwanda, Journal of Modern African Studies, Issue 57:3, Winner of the 2019 David and Helen Kimble Prize (Oct. 2019)
- Baldwin G., Taylor S., “The Global Pushback on Women’s Rights: The State of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda”, International Peace Institute (Sep. 2019)