General Women, Peace and Security

The Institute for Peace Studies is organizing its forth cycle of academic courses. This year's courses will cover 6 topics: Conflict Resolution, Mediation & Negotiation, Culture of Peace, Gender and Peace Building, Conflict Transformation and Research Method in Peace Studies. The lecturers are renowned university professors from Egypt and abroad.

Kirsten Holmstedt, acclaimed author of two non-fiction books on women in combat and the challenges they face after returning home, will speak at William & Mary's Ewell Recital Hall on Friday, Oct.1, at 7 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public.

WILPF invites all interested parties to this informal debrief to discuss recent and upcoming events on SCR1325 and to discuss the path forward for a human rights approach.

As part of this event there will be a screening preview of the soon-to-be released Women, War and Peace documentary, with a Q&A with producer Abigail Disney (Pray the Devil Back to Hell).

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.

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.

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.