6th Anniversary of SCR 1325
October 2006

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Report of the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security

Security Council Arria Formula Meeting:
The role of women in the consolidation of peace
United Nations, New York, 25 October 2006

On 25 October 2006, the Government of the United Kingdom, as a member of the Security Council, hosted an Arria Formula meeting, an informal, off-the-record meeting of the Council, on the role of women in the consolidation of peace, in order to review progress made in the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

The Council heard from the following speakers:

• Leymah Gbowee - Executive Director, Women in Peacebuilding Network (Liberia)
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• Barbara Bangura - Coordinator, Grassroots Empowerment for Self Reliance (Sierra Leone)
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•Bineta Diop - on behalf of Safaa Elagib Adam, Secretary-General, Community Development Association (Sudan)
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profiles

Leymah Gbowee - Liberia
Leymah Gbowee is currently Executive Director of the Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET) in Liberia.

Barbara Bangura – Sierra Leone
Barbara Bangura, one of the founding members and the Regional Adviser of the Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET) in Sierra Leone, is currently the National Coordinator of Grassroots Empowerment for Self Reliance (GEMS), a women’s organization formed in Sierra Leone in 1998. GEMS mission is to transform the dignity and respect of marginalized women in society to ensure self reliance through development, by working with grassroots rural women towards achieving a well developed society where men and women work together constructively as partners in development.

Ms. Bangura has advocated tirelessly for women’s inclusion and participation in the processes of peacebuilding. In 2001, she was the Secretary-General for the Network on Collaborative Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone (NCP-SL), in 2003 she was the Country Coordinator for the Women in Peacebuilding Network in Sierra Leone (WIPNET-SL) and from 2004 – 2006 she served as a Regional Adviser for Women in Peacebuilding Network in Accra, Ghana.

Safaa Elagib Adam – Sudan
Ms. Elagib Adam is currently the Secretary-General and Gender Advisor of the Community Development Association (CDA), which she joined in 1992. The Community Development Association is based in Khartoum, Sudan. The Community Development Association (CDA) is a non-governmental organization working on sustainable development and peace – with a special focus on the western states of Sudan. Ms. Elagib Adam has worked extensively in the area of gender and peacebuilding, including as a National Expert for German Development Services and with OXFAM UK as a Deputy Relief Coordinator. Her professional training and experience includes participation at many peacebuilding consultations and dialogues including: The Civil Society Forum of the Donors Conference and Gender Symposium for Sudan (Oslo, 2005); Expert Group Meeting on Understanding the Darfur Conflict (Addis, Ababa); and a workshop on Women’s Human Rights and Gender-Based Violence (UNHCR, Geneva, 2004)
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In 2005, Ms. Elagib Adam participated as a Gender Expert in the 7th round of Darfur Peace Negotiation in Abuja. She was also among the 1000 women nominated in 2005 for the Nobel Peace Prize by the project Peacewomen across the Globe. In addition, Ms. Elagib Adam is an executive member of the Darfur Forum for Dialogue and Peaceful Co-Existence, as well as the Sudanese Women Empowerment in Peace and Development Network, and a member of the Darfur Conflict Advocacy Group.


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