International Peace Bureau's A Climate For Peace
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. IPB's contribution as a key NGO player was evident during the first international peace conference in 1899 which gave rise to the Hague Conventions and other international law milestones.
Since those early years, the IPB has worked hard as a federation of organisations to incorporate different levels of activity, and to harmonise a variety of perspectives on the challenge of peacemaking. Over the decades, despite two world wars and many conflicts and controversies, a wide range of individuals and organizations have succeeded in working together within the IPB framework to strengthen the ties among peace and disarmament communities around the world.
SATURDAY SEPT 25
LITERATURE HOUSE, Wergelandsveien 29
MORNING
9.30 – 11.00 Panel: Women and peace – UNSC Resolution 1325
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.
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