EVENT: Women and Peace – UNSC Resolution 1325

Friday, September 24, 2010 - 20:00
PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
General Women, Peace and Security
Location: 
LITERATURE HOUSE, Wergelandsveien 29, OSLO

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. Ten years ago, on October 30, 2000, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution inspired by women from civil society and UN agencies. The resolution calls for 3 P's: Participation of women at all levels of governance and especially at peace making tables, Prevention of violence and Protection of women during violence. This resolution was followed by the subsequent resolutions 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009) and 1889 (2009). Much remains to be done both as to interpretation and implementation of the resolutions

MODERATOR: Cora Weiss - IPB UN representative/Past President

  • Madeleine Rees, Secretary-General, WILPF
  • Betsy Kawamura. Survivors of Gender-Based Violence and UNSCR 1325+
  • Eva Quistorp, Co-founder of Women for Peace, Germany, + global women's coalition on climate justice: From the European women for peace marches against nuclear weapons to Beijing 1995 and Resolution 1325 implementation in Africa, Asia and the Balkans.