Covid has affected and impacted everything and some of the impacts will be permanent. It will play out on the issues and questions that are affecting… - Funmi Olonisakin

I head a policy research unit at Kings College London on conflict, security and development, direct a peace and security Fellowship programme for African women and teach.

We need to promote participation of self-identified feminists in strategic political, social and economic institutions. Simultaneously, we need to strengthen our collective knowledge building and the effective dissemination of that knowledge.

I have worked for many years in the field of international security, a field populated largely by male experts and often dominated by male-led military and security establishments.