We are delighted that IANSA is a co-convenor of this year’s Women PeaceMakers working conference “Precarious Progress: UN Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security” hosted by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) at the University of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA from 29 September to 1 October 2010.

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Other convenors include the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice.

Where do we stand? Where do we go from here?

Taking place immediately prior to the 10th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, this international working conference calls upon peacebuilders, policymakers and activists to examine the successes of, and obstacles to, the UN Security Council Resolutions on women, peace and security.

Delegates from UN agencies, governments, INGOs, NGOs and academia will review the on-the-ground realities of Resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888 and 1889 in promoting greater gender participation in protection, prevention and recovery.

Focus will be on indicators of change and designing progressive steps to promote the policies that can end the ongoing rape, torture, trafficking and displacement due to the exclusion of women from peace tables and post-conflict decision making.

For more information and to become a delegate, please visit:
http://peace.sandiego.edu/precarious_progress or contact wpmconference@sandiego.edu

News, features and analysis from around the world.

  • International: PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update: July-August 2010
    01/Sep/2010
    he latest edition of PRIO's 'Gender, Peace and Security Update' is now available. PRIO is The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, part of the NISAT Coalition which is an IANSA member in Norway.
  • NGO WG: Monthly Action Points for the UN Security Council - September 2010
    30/Aug/2010
    As a member of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, we are pleased to share the latest Monthly Action Points (MAP) for the UN Security Council.
  • International: Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence: Newsletter 13 - August 2010
    25/Aug/2010
    IANSA women are delighted that information from the women’s portal and mailing lists has been included, particularly successes reported from Kenya, research from the Caribbean, and women’s experience from Brazil. This highlights how information from and by IANSA women is being used by both members and allies in their work on small arms control and armed violence prevention, and underscores what a valuable resource our network is.
  • Asia and the Pacific: Women in peace processes
    25/Aug/2010
    Ten years since UN Security Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security was passed “reaffirming the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts”, peacemaking still largely excludes women. Casting a specific focus on Asia and the Pacific, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue project, ‘Women at the peace table: Asia Pacific’, aims to both examine and enhance women’s contributions to peace processes across the region.
  • USA: Legal Guns
    23/Aug/2010
    Last week Solomon Mhlongo was sentenced to an effective 23 years in prison for the murder of his common-law wife Elizabeth and five-year old daughter Tlaleng. Two years earlier he emptied a magazine of bullets into Elizabeth and Tlaleng, stopped to reload and then continued firing until the gun jammed.