One hundred years ago, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Peace Bureau (IPB). With this decision the Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized the leading role of the IPB in the international movement for peace and disarmament. Founded in 1891 in Bern, the IPB was at the time a unique co-operative structure, bringing radical, as well as liberal and conservative, champions of peace together in one organization.

Three women recently arrived from Afghanistan will talk about their work to empower women and facilitate peace there, at 7 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Tikkun Reform Temple, 2550 N. Triphammer Road.

Courageous and creative individual women and women's groups have over the centuries searched for alternatives to war, often with meagre means. All 4 UN world conferences on women have approached this issue in a comprehensive manner, emphasizing "equality, development and peace" as interdependent entities. From the Beijing conference in 1995 and onwards, a gender perspective has been more and more important.

On 13 September, Deputy Secretary General Claudio Bisogniero opened an exhibition entitled “Women, Peace and Security: NATO's contribution to 10 years of UN Security Council Resolution 1325” at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

Swedish Armed Forces International Centre Nr Stockholm
Civil Military Relations Course (CMR)

18-29 October 2010

Course language English

Includes Gender/Post-conflict recovery/UNSCR1325 seminar conducted by UK specialist Lesley Abdela Tuesday October 26 (detail on Lesley Abdela at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_abdela)

Please join the Boulder branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to celebrate two important anniversaries:
1 - The 150th birthday of Jane Addams -- a founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Nobel Peace Laureate.
2 - The tenth anniversary of U.N. Resolution 1325, which calls for women's equal participation in U.N. peacemaking work.

Commemorating the 10th Anniversary
of United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1325
on Women, Peace and Security
∙777 UN Plaza (Corner of 1st Ave & 44thSt) New York City ∙

2-3pm Special talks:

Peace one day and MDG3 in Africa – [African Women's Decade 2010-2020]

VAW, trafficking of women and poverty in Africa [case of Zimbabwe]

4-7pm Workshops:

Road Map to the African Women's Decade

Venue: Tindlemanor Basement. 52/54 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8RT.

Station: Old street, exit 5. Bus 205.

A high-level Seminar entitled “Resolution 1325 in 2020: Looking Forward…Looking Back” is being jointly hosted by ACCORD and the African Union Peace and Security Commission on 8-9 October 2010 at the ICC in Durban, South Africa.

The Seminar brings together eminent participants and speakers from around the globe to advance an Africa-wide strategy for women in Peace and Security for the next decade (2010-2020).