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Real Security Initiative

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What is The White House Project Real Security Initiative

Real Security Initiative

The White House Project’s Real Security Initiative is based on the premise that Real Security requires more complex and nuanced approaches than those currently dominating U.S. foreign policy. Real security requires harnessing all elements of U.S. power -- strengthening diplomacy, economic leverage, and intelligence in addition to an unsurpassed military.  It requires emphasizing international partnerships to address weapons proliferation and criminal networks that ignore national boundaries; it requires tending to domestic security -- from urban streets and to U.S. ports and nuclear facilities – and it requires recognizing the relationship between U.S. actions abroad and security at home. This can only come from a paradigm shift in our understanding of what it means to be secure and how to utilize all of our tools.  Without women’s leadership we will not create the broad, deep, sustainable security policy that is needed to face today’s global threats.

Objective of RSI

Real Security is a program that uses a range of tools, conferences, publications and training sessions, to educate women and bring them fully into America's conversation about national security.  With only a few notable exceptions, women are noticeably absent from the security debate.  They are not effectively included in policy making or budgeting priorities.  Since 9/11, security has dominated our domestic and international agendas. Yet, with men taking the lead in the security debate, we are far from a sustainable security policy. Harnessing the power of women’s voices, values and ideas will reshape national security discussions. When women begin to lead on issues of security, we will begin to see a paradigm shift to a broad, deep and sustainable security policy.