 Hello everyone, my name is Lucia Kuma, I am one of the co-conveners of the Gender and Conflict Academic Summer School. I am convening this module with my colleague Shannon Jin, and we are extremely excited to be able to offer this module this year and to be able to convene it together. My own research focuses on borders, violence, irregular migration and sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. I am particularly interested in the area of, in the region of the DRC and Engales where my research focuses. But I am of course also interested in the wide context of peace and security, on women's peace and security and particularly looking at the the roles, the different roles that women take up during armed conflicts and how there is importance in the different cultural contexts to look at peace, war, including the contemporary understanding of feminist theories and how it influences the international legal framework on women's peace and security. So if you're interested in exploring, interrogating and adding to the discussion on these particular areas, you're most welcome to join us in the Academic Summer School for gender and conflicts and extremely exciting but also very thought-provoking module where you're able to bring in your own observations, your own critical exploration, for example in the field or in your work capacity to be able to translate this and how the academic engagement has been involved in shaping the conversation on women's peace and security. Hello everyone, welcome to the 2021 Summer School on Gender and Conflict. It is an honour for me to teach with my dearest feminist colleague Lu Chiakula together this summer. My name is Shanan Jing. I'm doing a PhD at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS. I was a tutor for the summer school last year in 2020. My expertise lies in gender and politics in China and Africa, the continent. Specifically, I'm interested in how gender is mobilised in post-conflict societies. My own research looks at women's political participation in the nation-building process in Wanda since 1994. Here is an overview of the course. For this summer, the course offers an insight into key issues in the study of gender and conflict, interrogating security council resolutions on women, peace and security, including conflict-related sexual violence while also analysing transnational feminist approaches beyond the resolutions. During the summer school, you'd expect the following. First, you'd understand and explain the relevant theories on gender and sexuality on the study of conflict and security. Second, you'd be able to discuss and analyse the different roles women take up during armed conflicts and how these have different meanings with different cultural contexts. Thirdly, you'd be aware of the international legal framework on women, peace and security. Last but not the least, you'd develop an understanding of feminist theories on peace and war, including contemporary understanding of gender diversity and transgendered subjects, male victims and the need for intersectional approaches to feminist peace projects. Thank you very much. I'm looking forward to meeting you all here this summer.