Essay Prompt:(600 word counts)
1.What is your main motivation for applying to the IMSISS postgraduate degree?
2.How will your educational background and/or work experience inform your engagement with this programme?
3.How will this programme support your future career development?
"No woman is safe until all women are safe.And that safety begins where fear ends- in our homes,neighbourhoods,communities and countries".Motivated by this statement from the Common wealth-Secretary -General Hon Shirley Botchwey, pursuing the International Masters in Security Intelligence and Strategic Studies would equip me to address gender-motivated killings,enabled by state-sponsored negligence like untargeted investigation and gender-sensitive policy gaps,despite being a human security risk threat as revealed by my femicide documentary work.
During my undergraduate studies in International Relations, I undertook courseworks such as Strategic Studies in the 20th century, Contemporary Strategic Studies, Introduction to Conflict Resolution Processes Logic and Methods of Political Enquiry amongst others, which sharpened my strategic critical thinking and conflict resolution skills.My knowledge gap in International gender-sensitive security frameworks at my undergraduate level,propelled me to enroll for professional courses such as, Understanding the Rights of Women and Advancing the Role of Women in Politics,Peace,security and Economic Institutions amongst others ,which informed the choice of my undergraduate thesis titled "Islamic Militancy and Its Linkage with Gender Based Violence in the North-Eastern Nigeria".
Limited by geographical constraints in the accessibility of primary data for my undergraduate research thesis,I joined the Document Our History (DOHS) Femicide Research Hub,where I horned my data collection skills,while filling the empirical knowledge gap in (GBV) literatures. The profound desire to put my acquired experience into use, nudged me to co-author a research on "Exploring The Forensic Gaps in Femicide Digital Evidence:A Case Study of Nigerian Criminal Justice System".Which strengthened my capacity to quantify research findings into measurable recommendations for evidence based policy reforms. Fuelled by the urgency to challenge the rampancy of sexist and misogynistic platforms,I launched the United For Peace Initiative, where I publish contents that discourage violence against women, through encouraging positive masculinity ,amplifying structural barriers and holding Nigerian law makers accountable, which enhanced my gender advocacy and organizational skills. The growing need to improve my services at United For Peace Initiative,came about my enrolment for the Women Leadership Academy (WLA) powered by Women Empowerment and Peace Building Initiative, where I refined my public speaking skills and emerged the best graduating and most engaging Leadership Champion out of the other 50 Leadership Champions.
The strong interest to polish my leadership skills, presented me with an opportunity to participate in the 2025 Knowles Educational Charitable Trust for International Leadership (KECTIL),by identifying the unique challenges of other 4000 young leaders from 100 countries I developed resilience through their shared moments of victories and failures.
The University of Glasgow Gender Based Violence Research Forum,offers me a platform to connect and learn from academic experts in GBV prevention, share my perspectives on my work of preventing GBV through data activism and access opportunities,that can broaden my gender advocacy skills .
Joining the Dublin City University Conflict Institute,under Prof.Erika Biagini,who has an expertise in the intersection of Islamism gender politics security and social movement,would support my thesis on "Femicide in Conflict and Post Conflict Settings".While adopting her research methodology, in the up scaling of United For Peace Initiative into a research focused network,to upgrade the quality of our services towards human security.With the growing rate of gender-motivated killings in the North-Eastern Nigeria, engagement with the Intelligence Strategic Planning and Public Diplomacy theme, would equip me to interpret femicide data from North-East Nigeria into actionable intelligence for gender-sensitive security policy recommendations in partnership with law makers as a policy analyst. In the long term, I aim to contribute to global efforts in tackling gender motivated killings, by leveraging on my expertise in intelligence and strategic planning to serve as a policy analyst, to UN and NATO shaping International preventive frameworks that will protect women and vulnerable populations in conflict-settings.
Hi, I would truly appreciate your review and thorough criticism on my draft.
1.What is your main motivation for applying to the IMSISS postgraduate degree?
2.How will your educational background and/or work experience inform your engagement with this programme?
3.How will this programme support your future career development?
"No woman is safe until all women are safe.And that safety begins where fear ends- in our homes,neighbourhoods,communities and countries".Motivated by this statement from the Common wealth-Secretary -General Hon Shirley Botchwey, pursuing the International Masters in Security Intelligence and Strategic Studies would equip me to address gender-motivated killings,enabled by state-sponsored negligence like untargeted investigation and gender-sensitive policy gaps,despite being a human security risk threat as revealed by my femicide documentary work.
During my undergraduate studies in International Relations, I undertook courseworks such as Strategic Studies in the 20th century, Contemporary Strategic Studies, Introduction to Conflict Resolution Processes Logic and Methods of Political Enquiry amongst others, which sharpened my strategic critical thinking and conflict resolution skills.My knowledge gap in International gender-sensitive security frameworks at my undergraduate level,propelled me to enroll for professional courses such as, Understanding the Rights of Women and Advancing the Role of Women in Politics,Peace,security and Economic Institutions amongst others ,which informed the choice of my undergraduate thesis titled "Islamic Militancy and Its Linkage with Gender Based Violence in the North-Eastern Nigeria".
Limited by geographical constraints in the accessibility of primary data for my undergraduate research thesis,I joined the Document Our History (DOHS) Femicide Research Hub,where I horned my data collection skills,while filling the empirical knowledge gap in (GBV) literatures. The profound desire to put my acquired experience into use, nudged me to co-author a research on "Exploring The Forensic Gaps in Femicide Digital Evidence:A Case Study of Nigerian Criminal Justice System".Which strengthened my capacity to quantify research findings into measurable recommendations for evidence based policy reforms. Fuelled by the urgency to challenge the rampancy of sexist and misogynistic platforms,I launched the United For Peace Initiative, where I publish contents that discourage violence against women, through encouraging positive masculinity ,amplifying structural barriers and holding Nigerian law makers accountable, which enhanced my gender advocacy and organizational skills. The growing need to improve my services at United For Peace Initiative,came about my enrolment for the Women Leadership Academy (WLA) powered by Women Empowerment and Peace Building Initiative, where I refined my public speaking skills and emerged the best graduating and most engaging Leadership Champion out of the other 50 Leadership Champions.
The strong interest to polish my leadership skills, presented me with an opportunity to participate in the 2025 Knowles Educational Charitable Trust for International Leadership (KECTIL),by identifying the unique challenges of other 4000 young leaders from 100 countries I developed resilience through their shared moments of victories and failures.
The University of Glasgow Gender Based Violence Research Forum,offers me a platform to connect and learn from academic experts in GBV prevention, share my perspectives on my work of preventing GBV through data activism and access opportunities,that can broaden my gender advocacy skills .
Joining the Dublin City University Conflict Institute,under Prof.Erika Biagini,who has an expertise in the intersection of Islamism gender politics security and social movement,would support my thesis on "Femicide in Conflict and Post Conflict Settings".While adopting her research methodology, in the up scaling of United For Peace Initiative into a research focused network,to upgrade the quality of our services towards human security.With the growing rate of gender-motivated killings in the North-Eastern Nigeria, engagement with the Intelligence Strategic Planning and Public Diplomacy theme, would equip me to interpret femicide data from North-East Nigeria into actionable intelligence for gender-sensitive security policy recommendations in partnership with law makers as a policy analyst. In the long term, I aim to contribute to global efforts in tackling gender motivated killings, by leveraging on my expertise in intelligence and strategic planning to serve as a policy analyst, to UN and NATO shaping International preventive frameworks that will protect women and vulnerable populations in conflict-settings.
Hi, I would truly appreciate your review and thorough criticism on my draft.
