Women, Peace and Security Calendar
2008

2008 Calendar Index

September

The Salzburg Global Seminar: Peace-Making and Peace-Building: Securing the Contributions of Women and Civil Society
September 7-12, 2008
Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria

This session will focus on increasing the coherence and effectiveness of conflict resolution, peace-building, reconciliation and peace-keeping efforts by focusing specifically on mechanisms to increase the effective participation of civil society organizations (CSOs), political minorities, and, in particular, the full and equal participation of women. Critical questions surrounding, and notable gaps in, the implementation of inclusive peace-building processes will be addressed. Particular focus will be given to efforts to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, adopted in 2000, which recognizes the importance of including women in all peacekeeping and peace-building measures. Participants will focus on mechanisms to close the gaps between rhetoric and policy, and between policy and implementation.

Enquiries please contact Nancy R. Smith, Director of Initiatives, at nsmith@SalzburgGlobal.org; or Nedzad Mocevic, at nmocevic@SalzburgGlobal.org.

To view the seminar agenda, please click here
For more information about the seminar, please click here

World Conference of Women’s Shelters, Discovering the Common Core: Practical Frameworks for Change
September 8-11, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

In 2008, ACWS will host the first World Conference of Women's Shelters. This event will present a new opportunity for family violence workers in Alberta and around the world to learn from international experts and each other.

For more information, please click HERE

SIDA CONFERENCE
September 12, 2008, Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

The theme of the conference is "How Gender-based Violence Can Be Addressed in an Effective Manner, with a Focus on Post-conflict Settings." Sweden's Minister for Development Cooperation Mrs Gunilla Carlsson will launch Sweden's Action Plan on Gender-based Violence in Development Co-operation. Speakers include Lesley Abdela, recent GenCap Senior Gender Adviser to UN OCHA Chief Humanitarian Co-ordinator Nepal.

Conference subjects include:
- Sexual abuse in conflict and post-conflict situations - why GBV
tends to increase in many post-conflict societies
- Gender-based violence due to harmful traditional or customary
practices

Contact information: sida@sida.se

To visit the organization’s website, please click HERE

30th Anniversary of Peace Day in Chicago
September 19-20, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Peace School

Mayor Richard M. Daley has agreed to serve as the Honorary Chairperson of the Chicago Build the Peace Committee’s weekend of peace building activities, September 19-20, 2008, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Peace Day in Chicago. All events are free.

The annual Peace Day celebration has been organized every year by The Peace School, a non-profit, educational organization with no political or religious affiliations, since 1978. It has been held in cooperation with the City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Special Events since 1993. In 1987, the Peace School was designated by the United Nations as an official Peace Messenger, one of just a few U.S. institutions so honored, in recognition of the School's work during the 1986 International Year of Peace.

For information on Peace Day’s activities and events, please click HERE

For more information on The Peace School, please click HERE

International Day of Peace 2008
September 21, 2008, All over the world
The United Nations

This year to mark the International Day of Peace, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will ring the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Friday, 19 September, in the company of the UN Messengers of Peace. UN offices and peacekeeping missions around the world will also be holding events to observe the occasion. A minute of silence will be observed at 12 noon local time on 21 September, around the world.

To encourage even greater awareness of this important Day, the United Nations is encouraging people around the world to send text messages for peace on or before 21 September. UN offices in several countries are organizing campaigns. Messages collected by the UN will be presented to world leaders gathering in New York for the 63rd General Assembly from 23 September.

For more information, please click HERE

Gender Training community of practice (CoP) Activities:
First Virtual Dialogue
Theme: "Current Situation in Gender Training", UN-INSTRAW
September 22nd to October 17th, 2008.

The Gender Training CoP aims to bring together practitioners from all over the world with a diversity of knowledge and experiences, in order to take stock of the present situation of gender training; what the real successes and failures have been and how gender training can be strengthened as a component of gender mainstreaming and sustainable development.

For more information, please click HERE

Feminist Leadership and Movement Building Advocacy Institute
September 22-26, 2008, Entebbe, Uganda
Application & Documentation Due July 28, 2008

The Feminist Leadership and Movement Building Advocacy Institute is a week-long workshop to strengthen feminist leadership, strategies and collective power of young African women for their voices and demands to be visible and impactful from the community to the highest levels of decision-making. The Institute will take place just after the African Feminist Forum. This process will mobilize pre-existing organizing resources of women and help young feminist leaders fulfill their potential in strengthening movements for social transformation led by young African women. The institute will also explore concrete strategies to strengthen links between movements to advance women's human rights more collectively.

For more information and for the application, please click here

2008 Women PeaceMakers Conference: "Crafting Human Security in an Insecure World"
September 24 - 26, 2008, San Diego, CA
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice

An international working conference to probe and address global acquiescence to impunity, gender violence and exclusion that continues to obstruct peacebuilding and deny human security.

For more information, please click HERE

Entrepreneurs in Violence? Men, Masculinities and Private Military Security Companies
September 24, 2008
Department of Politics, University of Bristol, UK

This one-day workshop will provide a forum to discuss the links between masculinities, femininities and PMSCs.

For more information, please click HERE

IPT Core Course
Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)
September 28-October 11, 2008, Burg, Austria
Deadline for application August 1, 2008

The Core Course aims at providing participants with the basic knowledge and skills required in postconflict and crisis areas. Particular stress is put on the development of a co-operative attitude towards representatives and approaches of governmental and inter-governmental actors involved in peace-building, peace-keeping, development co-operation and humanitarian assistance as well as on the mainstreaming of a conflict sensitive approach.

The course fee is 1.260,- € per two weeks including half-board accommodation. Scholarships are available for applicants from non-OECD states.

For more information please contact Ms. Silvia Polster
Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR), Rochusplatz 1, A-7461 Stadtschlaining/Austria
phone: +43-3355-2498
fax: +43-3355-2662
mail: ipt@aspr.ac.at
www.aspr.ac.at/ipt.htm

For more information, please click here
To download application form, please click here

Combating Violence Against Women In Politics: Revisiting policies, politics and participation
South Asian Regional Conference on Violence Against Women In Politics
November 16-18, 2008 Islamabad, Pakistan
Last date for Registration: September 30, 2008

This conference has been planned under its Violence Against Women in Politic (VAWIP) program being implemented in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka through SAP Nationals and a partner organization in India. The conference intends to bring together eminent policy and decision makers, women leaders of South Asia along with UN and international agencies to discuss the existing national laws, policies and provisions for reducing the incidents of violence against women in politics as well as showcase the stories and best practices of women politicians who have successfully overcome the hindrances confronting their careers. The sharing and discussion of the participant's experiences is expected to develop strategies and mechanism that will influence national and international laws, policies and provisions for creating a congenial environment for women's participation in politics.

The conference will have three broad sessions on Gender sensitive VAWIP policy environment, Coping mechanism of VAWIP and Collaboration for combating VAWIP. We would like call for your participation in this regional eventwhich will be committed to highlighting the issues and concerns of VAWIP and how to address the issue and what roles civil society, legal professional, media can play in addressing the issue.

To read the concept paper for this event, please click HERE
To download the registration form, please click HERE

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