Women, Peace and Security Calendar
2008

2008 Calendar Index

May

LEADERSHIP FOR A CHANGING WORLD: Scaling Up For Global Impact
Women's Funding Network Annual Conference
May 1-3, 2008, Washington, D.C.

2008 Annual Conference will be a high-energy gathering of visionary leaders from around the world. The conference will showcase the most cutting-edge ideas, trends and insights on social investment in women.

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Voices of Courage Awards Luncheon 2008: ending violence against refugee and displaced women and girls
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
May 6, 2008, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Columbus Circle, New York City at 12:00 noon

Each year, the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children holds a luncheon to honor individual refugee women and young people who are working on behalf of other refugees.

Voices of Courage honorees are refugees or internally displaced women or youth who work or have worked to provide innovative, successful programs that address and reduce violence against refugee, internally displaced and/or returnee women and girls. Honorees are also passionate advocates against violence against women and girls in all of its forms, including rape, sexual exploitation and abuse, genital mutilation and domestic violence.

Individual seats start at $300. Corporate tables start at $7,500.

Please contact Perry Kirkland at (212) 675-9474 or perryk@sualtd.com for details.

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Congressional Hearing: UN Security Council Resolution 1325
May 15, 2008 2pm-3:30pm
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2172, Washington DC

Event sponsored by The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight

First congressional hearing to explore women's contributions to peace building and reconstruction in key conflict and post-conflict environments, specifically Afghanistan, Sudan, and Uganda.

By emphasizing women's agency rather than their victimhood, the hearing will highlight a critical, yet overlooked, resource in building sustainable peace and protecting US security.

Confirmed witnesses include:

* Ambassador Swanee Hunt, chair, The Initiative for Inclusive Security;
* Ambassador Donald Steinberg, deputy president of policy, Crisis Group;
* Rina Amiri, senior regional adviser for Eurasia, The Open Society Institute;
* Rebecca Okwaci, secretary general, Women Action for Development;
* Betty Bigombe, distinguished scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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To read HRW-AIUSA submission, please click HERE


Managing and Transforming Global Conflicts in the 21st Century
Enabling Peace and Effective Responses to Conflict – Human Security, Conflict Transformation and Good Governance Nationally and Internationally
May 22 – 23, 2008, Ottawa, Canada

A two-day seminar with one of the world’s leading practitioners and international experts in peacebuilding and national and international negotiations and mediation.
Hosted by Civilian Peace Services Canada in cooperation with the Department of Peace Operations (DPO) and International Peace and Development Training Centre

Course Fee: CAD$ 600 (Accommodation and meals not included)

Contact Person: Dominique Guindon, Canadian Institute of Conflict Resolution

Contact Details Tel: +1 613 235 5800
E-mail: registration@cicr-icrc.ca
Fax: +1 613 235 5801
On-Line Registration: www.patrir.ro/training

Deadline for applications: Friday May 2nd, 2008

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Call for Applications for the 2008 Women PeaceMakers Program
Application Deadline: May 23, 2008
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) in San Diego, California, is currently accepting applications for its Women PeaceMakers Program (WPM).

The WPM program is designed for leaders from conflict-affected countries around the world who are transforming conflict and assuring gender-inclusion in post conflict recovery through in human rights advocacy and peace building efforts they lead. These are women whose stories and best practices will be shared internationally; they are women who will have a respite from the frontlines work they do. Four Women PeaceMakers are selected each year to spend two months in residence at the Institute. Women PeaceMakers in residence will have the opportunity to engage with the community through a series of public panels and to meet with other activists and leaders involved in human rights, political action and peacemaking efforts.

For more information about the program and an application please click HERE

“Money for Women Peacemak-ers” Seminar
May 24, 2008, The Hague, Netherlands
IFOR Women Peacemakers Program(WPP)

In honor of May 24, International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, the IFOR Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) will organize the seminar “Money for Women Peacemakers” on May 24, 2008, in the Hague, the Netherlands. The seminar will also be a celebration of the WPP’s 10th anniversary. The seminar will explore the impact of investments in women activists on the establishment of sustainable peace and justice. It will consist of lectures and workshops.

Join pioneers in the field discussing the impact of financial investments in women activists on the establishment of true peace and justice.

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Building Peace in Afghanistan: What can be done?
May 26, 2008, St. Paul's University, 223 Main Street, Ottawa, Canada
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Amphitheatre

A Public Talk hosted by the Asia Pacific Working Group (APWG) of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) and the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution (CICR).

The Asia Pacific Working Group (APWG) of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) and the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution (CICR) are pleased to invite you to a public talk on Building Peace in Afghanistan with Mr. Mirwais Wardak, Program Director with the Kabul-based NGO, Co-operation for Peace and Unity (CPAU), Mr. Ernie Regehr, founder and former Executive Director of Project Ploughshares, and Surendrini Wijeyaratne, Policy Analyst with CCIC.

The panel includes a presentation on women's participation in peace processes in Afghanistan.

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Transformative Mediation
Responding to Conflict in Bermingham
May 26 - 30, 2008, Birmingham, UK

The Transformative Mediation course has been developed to help organisations, practitioners and mediators to enhance the quality of their work, to gain new perspectives into the Conflict Transformation field, and to develop new practices in mediation. Transformative Mediation is the only course of its kind in the UK, specifically for organisations and individuals with experience in the mediation process locally in family and community settings or for those interested in applying a transformative approach to their mediation work in activities such as peacebuilding and conflict sensitive programming.

Course fee:£1,200 Number of days:5

Please contact: Responding to Conflict at Tel: +44 (0)121 415 5641 or E-mail: courses@respond.org
(Website:www.respond.org)

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International women’s health conference: Other Borders
The Everglades Hotel, Derry, Northern Ireland
May 29th – 30th, 2008

Derry Well Woman on behalf of the Cross Border Women’s Health Network is hosting an international conference on women’s health in May 2008. The conference is entitled Other Borders. The aim is to make a health impact by raising awareness and opening up the debate on the need to improve health status and reduce health inequalities through focusing on the following themes:

1. Women and exclusion

2. Maintaining women’s roles in determining health and well-being when societies move from conflict to post-conflict

3. Meeting health needs on a cross border basis

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Women's Human Rights: Building a Peaceful World in an Era of Globalization
May 30-July 4, 2008 , Ontario Insitute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, IT
Centre for Women's Studies in Education

The Institute brings feminist perspectives and an activist orientation to the inextricably related issues of peace, human rights and life-sustaining development. Participants will gain an understanding of the global economic, ecological, legal, cultural and political contexts of this work, as well as of the groundbreaking work that is currently being done and has been done over decades by women and men around the world.

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3rd International Salon for Peace initiatives
French Coalition for the Decade
May 30-31 and 1 June 2008, Paris

Organized within the dynamics of the “International Decade for the promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence for the children of the world (2001-2010)”, this Salon will aim at helping a large public discover peace initiatives from all over the world, illustrating the various dimensions of peace: justice, international solidarity, human rights defense, non-violent resolution of conflicts, peace and non-violence education, solidarity economy, sustainable and fairdevelopment, environmental protection, etc.

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: A Three-Week Training session in Peacebuilding
The West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI)
September 1–19, 2008, Accra, Ghana

The training covers a range of courses on Peacebuilding, Facilitated Dialogue and Mediation; Women and Gender Mainstreaming in Peacebuilding; Youth and Peace Education, Early Warning and Early Response, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Human Security, Development and Peace, etc.

The deadline for application: May 31, 2008

Complete the application form and send to: wapi@wanep.org or wanep@wanep.org

For more information, please click HERE