 the first week I kind of will envisage giving you a good grounding in terms of using gender as an analytical tool in your writing moving beyond just focusing on women although women's experiences of armed conflict will be very much part of the course and I want you to start thinking about you know how gender operates as both a symbolic and a structural kind of constraint and kind of mode of operating in our communities and what that means in conflict and post-conflict spaces. That will involve as I said gender as an analytical tool thinking about gender theories and their approaches to conflict and conflict spaces, studying the UN Security Council's resolutions on women, peace and security, there's 10 of them you might like to have a look at them before the course starts and then pushing our analytical thinking a little bit by embracing and studying queer and decolonizing approaches to gender and applying them in conflict scenarios and in particular also the Security Council's work. That will form week one it's going to be intense we'll have a lot to do super challenging but actually some fantastic conversations as well. In week two as you start designing your own assignment topic I will be focusing in on a couple of case studies in particular conflict related sexual violence, counterterrorism and emergency laws and gendered and feminist responses to military technologies from drones to you know the move towards potentially other kinds of automated systems and throughout we will be hosting a series of online debates running tutorial spaces for you to come and join the conversation in person or to ask me questions and a kind of lecture series that both begins and ends each academic day. There should be lots of fun there's lots to learn and lots to discuss and I really look forward to having you in online for the SOAS gender and conflict summer school. If you have got some questions you can drop me an email and I'll reply via email or if you prefer we can set up a meeting time and we can have a short discussion about the course and whether it's good for you. See you in the summer!