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Cora Weiss, Cyber Dialogue at Peace Fair (NY, NY) (Photograph by Michelle Reyf)
- Post-conflict Peace-building Debate
October 13, 2010
(10 a.m., Security Council Chamber, UN HQ)
The women and peacebuilding report will be discussed in the Security Council during its peace-building debate.
- Arria Formula
October 19, 2010
(4 to 6 pm; venue to be announced)
The opportunity for selected NGOs to discuss issues of international peace and security with the Security Council. The Arria (surname of former Venezuelan Permanent Representative to the UN and adviser to Kofi Annan) formula is an informal consultation/meeting, where members of the Security Council (SC) meet with civil society in a confidential, informal setting. The meeting is presided over by a member of the SC. Often times the Arria Fomula is held well in advance of the Open Debate so as to give member states an opportunity to incorporate the information/recommendations gathered at this meeting in the statements they make during the Open Debate.
- "No Peace - No Women" Multimedia Exhibition
October 20, 2010
(6 p.m., UN HQ - Delegates' Entrance Hall)
Launch hosted by the Mission of Switzerland.
October 21, 2010
(9:00 -11:00 a.m. Conference Room 6, UN North Lawn Building)
The Global Day will provide an opportunity to hear the priorities and concerns of women from conflict-affected countries. The Global Open Day is the culmination of national Open Days held in over 20 conflict-affected countries in June-July 2010, in which SRSGs Special Representatives of the Secretary General consulted women leaders on peacebuilding priorities. The Global Open Day will feature four women who participated in national Open Days, each of whom will address a key theme that emerged from the consultations. Senior representatives of each of the participating UN agencies will respond to and address the issues raised. The Global Day will feature four themes: Women's participation at all levels of decision-making; Justice; Security, Sector Reform and Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration; Economic recovery; and Need for dedicated human and financial resources to implement SCR 1325.
October 21, 2010
(3 - 5 p.m., Mission of Switzerland 633 Third Avenue 29th Floor)
This event will bring together experts from the field and from the policy arena in New York to discuss recent research and policy options to improve implementation of the Security Council’s resolutions on Women, Peace and Security.
October 21, 2010
(11:15 a.m., Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, UN Secretariat, New York)
This press conference will focus specifically on the work of women peace advocates, UN priorities in advancing the resolution, the achievements of resolution 1325 (2000) in the last ten years and the challenges ahead.
October 25, 2010
(10 a.m. - 12 p.m., UN HQ)
Bringing together policy-makers, donors, representatives of women's organizations and other development partners from a range of countries, the panel discussion aims to stimulate dialogue on how post-conflict recovery and reconstruction initiatives allocate resources to promote gender equality and involve women in decision making.
- Open Debate on WPS
October 26, 2010
(10 a.m. - 6 p.m., UN HQ)
Security Council Debate on Women, Peace & Security. Please to see PeaceWomen's Security Council calendar. The Open Debate provides an opportunity for non-Council members to address the Security Council. Address in reality means reading a prepared statement. All non-Council members, representatives of regional organizations and international bodies are permitted to attend as observers and participate in the debate without a right to vote. Civil Society may also at times be invited to make a statement.
October 27, 2010
(1:15 - 2:30 p.m., UN North Lawn Building, Room 7)
The study analyzes the current resources available and actors involved in costing and financing the implementation of UNSCR 1325 and women, peace and security programming at the national level.
Walk to Open Debate on WPS (Photograph by Michelle Reyf)
October 25-29, 2010
- October 25, 2010
9:00am – 11:00am
Panel: Female police peacekeepers - their role and impact in peace operations.
Ann Tusiime (Uganda), former Gender advisor, UNPOL, UNMIS.
Elizabeth Muwanga (Uganda), former Deputy for Policy and Planning, UNAMID.
Pearson Peacekeeping Center, Canada
11:00am – 1:00pm
Oxfam's Shooting Poverty: Three films about how the illegal arms trade affects people living in poverty in three different countries.
Filmmakers: Seth Chase and Brice Blondel, Burundi
Guilherme Arruda, Ludmila Curi and Thiago Vieira, Brazil; Chandam Netraj, India.
1:00pm – 3:00 pm
Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP launches the Peace Fair with Amb. Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Andrei Abramov, chief, NGO Branch, DESA;
Harriett Jane Olson, Dep. Gen. Sec’y, Women’s Division, United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries.
Cyberdialogue live with women from Afghanistan, Burundi, Colombia, Sierra Leone.
3:30pm – 5:00pm
“Voices from the Frontlines”: In this Chapel event, women from the front lines of conflict areas will share their experiences and will say why women need to be involved in decisions that define just and reconciliatory processes. Christiana Harmone, Liberia; Andrea Zeravcic, Bosnia and Herzegovina.; Sameena Nazir, Pakistan.; Marta Benavides, El Salvador.
Featuring music from Olympia’s Daughters, an a cappella women’s group and artworks from students at the award winning Millennium Arts Academy in the Bronx.
United Methodist Women, World Council of Churches, Lutheran Office for World Community.
5:00pm-6:00pm
1325 in Zimbabwe. Best practices of the involvement of women in the process of reconciliation and healing in Zimbabwe
ICCO, The Netherlands and WORLD YMCA
- October 26, 2010
8:30am – 11:00am
Discussion on women in peace negotiations. Women’s Walk to the UN (10/26 Open Debate on SCR 1325) for the open debate. (details to be provided later).
ICAN/GNWP
11:00am – 11:30am
Women Rebuilding Post Conflict Communities.
Juliet Were – Isis-WICCE
ISIS-Women’s International Cross Cultural Exchange, Uganda
11:30am-1:00pm
Book Fair at the Peace Fair
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Title: 1325 mujeres tejiendo la paz: Proposals, experiences and life stories from the ground.
Manuela Mesa, CEIPAZ
Cora Weiss, Hague Appeal for Peace
CEIPAZ, Spain
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Title: Promoting Women’s participation in conflict and post-conflict societies: How women World Wide are making and building Peace
Global Action to Prevent War
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Title: "1325 As an Impetus toward Human Security": an exploration of the obstacles to human security posed by the militarized security system that perpetuates global patriarchy, and the potential of feminist security perspectives to overcome them; a discussion to be initiated by an international panel of the editors and contributors to "The Gender Imperative: Human Security vs. State Security"
Asha Hans, India; Kozue Akibayahsi, Japan; Soumita Basu, India; Chloe Breyer, USA; Valerie Zawilski, Canada Moderator: Betty Reardon, USA
- October 27, 2010
9:00am – 11:00am
No women no peace? Lessons from Care International’s support to women's participation in peacebuilding and post conflict governance.
Care Int’l and local partner organizations from Uganda, Nepal & Afghanistan
Care International, United Kingdom
11:00am – 1:00pm
Enhancing Participation for Prevention: Strengthening the Role of Women in Conflict Prevention to Successfully Implement UNSCR 1325. Experiences and Ways Forward from the Global to the Local
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, GPPAC Int’l Steering Group Gender Liaison; Member UN CSAG on UNSCR1325; Exec Dir. femLINKPACIFIC HE Robert Aisi, UN Perm. Rep., Papua New Guinea,
Amb. Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former USG and High Representative of the UN, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Member UN CSAG on UNSCR1325; Gen. Sec. World YWCA, Nighat Said Khan, Gender Focal Point for GPPAC in South Asia; Dean, Institute of Women’s Studies, Lahore/Pakistan.
European Centre for Conflict Prevention Global Secretariat of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, The Netherlands
1:00pm - 3:00pm
10 years of Implementing UNSCR 1325 in Africa: National and Regional Experiences
Femmes Africa Solidarities
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Building Peace: Exploring the Intersections of Militarism and Violence Against Women. Join women peacemakers from around the world in an interactive, participatory workshop to explore how the culture of militarism fosters violence against women from neighborhood to battlefield, and how women are organizing to affirm human security and human rights.
United Methodist Women, World Council of Churches, Center for Women’s Global Leadership
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Short documentaries on women in war and conflict. Katharina Barbosa, filmmakers and photographer from Magdalena Norway; Beatrice Camargo filmmaker from Corporation Colombiana de Teatro CCT Columbia, Int’l association of women in radio and Television ; Arshiya Ahsan – member of the Int’l Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT). Laura Nepta Silva – member of Corporación Humanas, Colombia – to give a short introduction to the situation of women in Colombia.
Forum for Kvinner og utviklingssporsmal, Norway
- October 28, 2010
10:00am -11:30am
What the Women Say; Participation and UNSCR 1325
An Independent Case Study Assessment
Dr. John Tirman MIT, Center for International Studies; Sanam Naraghi Anderlini (ICAN, USA); Cerue Garlo (Liberia), Shyamala Gomez (Sri Lanka), Suraiya Kamarruzzan (Aceh), Turid Polfus (Norway), Elena Rey (Colombia), Lina Zedriga (Uganda).
Report Launch Hosted by US and Norwegian Missions to the UN. MIT Center for International Studies
Int. Civil society Action Network (ICAN)
Location: US Mission to the UN, 779 UN Plaza
Public Event
11:00am -1:00pm
SCR 1325 and Women’s Participation: Operational Guidelines for Conflict Resolution and Peace Processes. A new set of Guidelines will be presented to improve the effective participation of women in peace processes.
Prof. John Packer – IQd Senior Adviser and Dir. of the Human Rights Centre, Univ. of Essex; representatives of women’s organizations from Afghanistan, Sudan and Indonesia
Cordaid and the Initiative on Quiet Diplomacy (IQd) at Essex University in partnership with the
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Afghanistan: Enhancing Security and Women’s Rights.
Moderator, Pascale Baeriswyl, Counsellor, Mission of Switzerland to the UN..; David Cortright, Fourth Freedom Forum; Univ. of Notre Dame; Sarah Smiles Persinger, Research Assoc. , Kroc Institute, Univ. of Notre Dame; Afifa Azim, General Director. of Afghan Women's Network; Sabra Bano, Dir., Gender Concerns Int’l.
Produced by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, in cooperation with Cordaid, the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders.
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Women and Conflict Prevention- why participation and disarmament matter with Annie Matundu Mbambi (Chair of WILPF-DRC), Theresa deLangis (Women, Peace and Governance, previously UNIFEM-Afghanistan) and Madeleine Rees (WILPF Secretary-General). Launch of Women, Peace and Security Handbook: PeaceWomen/WILPF's analysis on how the Security Council's country resolutions (2000 to 2010) have reflected the language and intent of SCR 1325. Peacewomen.org Project of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Peacewomen.org, USA
4:30pm-6:00pm
Members Meeting
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, USA
- October 29, 2010
9:00am - 11:00am
Meet Margot Wallström, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, and watch a screening of Women’s War (English subtitles) produced by Kvinna till Kvinna followed by a discussion between Margot Wallström, and Lena Ag, Secretary-General of Kvinna till Kvinna.
Other speakers tbc – (visit KtK publications table during the week for more details)
Kvinna till Kvinna
11:00am – 1:00pm
Engaging Men for UNSCR 1325”.
In this workshop we would like to share some of our experiences and lessons learned from WPP’s Pilot around engaging men for gender sensitive peacebuilding through nonviolence.
Isabelle Geuskens – WPP Program Manager
José de Vries – WPP Information Officer
Patricia Ackerman - trainer WPP ToT on masculinities and peacebuilding for male activists.
Women Peacemakers Program – International Fellowship or Reconciliation, The Netherlands
1:00pm-3:00pm
Hear from women peacebuilders and participate in a live Cyberdiologue with women from Nepal, Liberia, DRC, Sri Lanka, Cyprus.
Moderator: Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, USA
3:00pm-4:30pm
African Women Re-defining Peace Experiences of WPP- Africa. Mrs. Joy Mbaabu, Board Chair; Euphemia Akos Dzathor,Africa Regional Coordinator.
Women Peacemakers Program Africa, Ghana
October 13, 2010
October 25, 2010
Women Count: UN Security Council Resolution 1325 Civil Society Monitoring Report
October 27, 2010
1:15 to 2:45 pm at Baha’I Office, 866 UN Plaza, Suite 120, co-hosted by Liberian and US Missions. Brown bag lunch discussion with Abigail Disney, producer of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” and new series on Women, War & Peace, & Leymah Gbowee, chief player in “PDBH” and director of Women, Pease & Security Network Africa
October 28, 2010
October 28, 2010 – 10 to 11:30 am at US Mission, 799 UN Plaza (45 St. entrance) co-hosted by Mission of Norway. Release of Report by MIT & ICAN on “What the Women Say: Participation & USSCR 1325: An Independent Assessment of Women Preventing War & Promoting Peace
ASIA
- TOKYO, JAPAN
September 8, 2010
- FIJI
October 1, 2010
Launch of FemLink Pacific Annual Policy Document on 1325
October 1, 2010
International Women's Day for Peace and Security: Rural Women, Peace and Human Security
October 1, 2010
10th Anniversary Commemoration Media and Policy Events
- NEPAL
September 27-30, 2010
Women at the Table - Asia-Pacific: Regional Roundtable Meeting
October 1, 2010
Presentation of the Outcomes of the 1325 In-Country Monitoring
October 1, 2010
Launch of the Nepal 1325 National Action Plan
- PHILLIPINES
October 1, 2010
Workshop Series on UNSCRs 1325 and 1820 for Teachers and Sectoral Groups
October 1, 2010
Mindanao Public Fora on the Philippine NAP on 1325 & 1820
- BANGKOK, THAILAND
October 6, 2010
October 20, 2010
AFRICA
- BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI
October 1, 2010
October 1, 2010
Presentation of the 1325 In-Country Monitoring Report
- ACCRA, GHANA
October 1, 2010
- ELDORET, KENYA
October 1, 2010
Meeting Among Lawyers and CSOs from Conflict Areas on UNSCR 1325 and 1820
- LIBERIA
October 1, 2010
- UGANDA
July 21-23, 2010
October 1, 2010
Launch of the Uganda Policy Brief on 1325 (An Outcome of the GNWP In-Country Monitoring of 1325)
October 1, 2010
Re-broadcast of Radio Drama on UNSCR 1325 & 1820 (Soroti)
October 1, 2010
NORTH AMERICA
- BOULDER, COLORADO
September 2, 2010
Celebrate the 150th Birthday of Jane Addams, and the 10th Anniversary of UN Res. 1325
- CALIFORNIA
September 29 - October 1, 2010
Precarious Progress: UN Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice) (San Diego)
October 16-26, 2010
Advancing Women as PeaceMakers Tour (Sacramento, Fresno, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Palo Alto)
October 19, 2010
Free Advancing Women Peacemakers Workshop and Panel
- GREATER PORTLAND, OREGON
October 29, 2010
Advancing Women as PeaceMakers Tour
SOUTH AMERICA
- CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA
October 1, 2010
Event at the City of Women in Cartagena
EUROPE
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GERMANY
July 9-10, 2010
International Conference Gender, Peace and Security (Munich)
October 28-30, 2010
October 31, 2010
- BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
September 9, 2010
Ensuring Women's Participation in Peace and Security Conference
- OSLO, NORWAY
September 21-26, 2010
International Peace Bureau's A Climate For Peace
- LONDON, UK
October 15, 2010
Public Launch Party - No Women, No Peace Campaign
- VIENNA, AUSTRIA
October 20, 2010
- SWEDEN
October 22, 2010
Ten years with 1325 – What Now? The Stockholm International Conference (Stockholm)
November 29-December 1, 2010
Resolution 1325 in the field November 29- December 1, 2010
INTERNATIONAL
- Geneva, Switzerland
September 2, 2010
10 Years On: Conflict Prevention Mechanisms for UNSCR 1325 Conference
September 15-16, 2010
September 17, 2010
Reality of Post-Conflict and its Link to 1325: Debrief NGO Recent Events
November 10, 2010
SWEDEN
- STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
October 22, 2010
Ten years with 1325 – What Now? The Stockholm International Conference
UNITED STATES
Launch of the "Advancing Women as Peacemakers" Project
The goals of this project include:
- To increase awareness and understanding of SCR1325 among women in the U.S.; this includes understanding how it and/or a U.S. national action plan for implementation of it could be used to change U.S. foreign and domestic policy.
- To promote an understanding of the historical linkages between WILPF's founding document and the actual text of SCR 1325.
- To activate U.S. women to assert themselves more actively into international policy debates, particularly those involving the definition of security and the allocation of public resources to meet human security needs.
Please visit the new website www.ja1325.org - a website of history and activism from Jane Adams to SCR 1325
Other activities will take place in US WILPF branches between Sept. 6 (Jane Addams's birthday) and October 31 and will be updated in due course.
September 6, 2010
BOOK RELEASE: WILPF member Louise Knight's new biography of Jane Addams: Spirit in Action will be released. Louise will be giving book talks in NYC, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington D.C. and in selected locations in the midwest. For more information about the book and her upcoming appearances please visit www.louisewknight.com
September 21, 2010
EVENT: Towards a Women-Inclusive Peace: Why 1325 is the Crucial Number
October 19, 2010
Free Advancing Women Peacemakers Workshop and Panel