2022 WPS and Organizational Culture Creating Lasting Change Day 1
Channel: U.S. Naval War College
Date: 2022-04-19

The primary aim of the 2022 WPS Symposium is to facilitate the integration of Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) throughout the Defense Department by considering the role of organizational culture in effecting sustainable institutional change. While the Defense Department continues to make significant strides in implementing its WPS Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan (SFIP) by conducting activities that achieve SFIP defense objectives, recognizing the significant influence of organizational culture on WPS implementation efforts is key to overcoming barriers and leveraging enablers that flow from it.
Bringing together a variety of experts from U.S. and non-U.S. military and civilian organizations, the WPS Symposium will examine efforts to implement DoD’s WPS framework in relation to security cooperation, defense in support of civil authority, diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA), as well as leadership. Symposium guest speakers will scrutinize these efforts through the lens of organizational culture, sharing thoughts about how efforts to shift organizational culture in a positive direction through WPS might be improved.