Go On! "Women & War"

(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest)

Days after IntLawGrrls' own D.C. conference marking the 10th anniversary of U.S. Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security, the U.S. Institute of Peace will hold its own series of commemorations at various locations in Washington.
The Institute's colloquium, entitled "Women and War," will be held November 3 to 5, as detailed in the agenda here.
Topics to be discussed: "Gender-Based Violence," "No Peace without Women," "Women at the Center of Peace," and "The Trouble with the Congo."
Confirmed speakers featured at various events include:
Margot Wallström, U.N. Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict; Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues; L. Tammy Duckworth, Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; and Rosa Brooks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law and Humanitarian Policy.
Details and registration information here.

Women & peace & security webcast

The Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Institute of Peace invites viewers to a webcast-only program entitled Women, Peace, and Security: Fulfilling the Vision of 1325, to be held 9:15 a.m.-noon EDT this Tuesday, July 27.
"1325" refers, of course, to U.N. Security Council 1325 (2000) on Women and peace and security (prior IntLawGrrls posts here, here, and here), a milestone that will mark its 10th anniversary on October 31 of this year. (As earlier announced, IntLawGrrls is planning an October 29 roundtable in connection with that anniversary.)
Sessions planned for Tuesday's U.S. Institute of Peace webcast are as follows:
► Why 1325 Matters, featuring Ambassador Melanne Verveer (left), Office of Global Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State (prior IntLawGrrls posts), and Ambassador Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, former U.N. Under-Secretary General and High Representative High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. The Institute's Gender Advisor, Kathleen Kuehnast, will moderate.
► Implementing 1325, Lessons & Experiences a Decade On, featuring Victoria Holt (below, near right), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Donald Steinberg, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group; Sanam Anderlini (far right), Executive Director of ICAN, the International Civil society Action Network; and Jolynn Shoemaker, Executive Director of Women in International Security. Moderating will be Chantal De Jonge Oudraat, an Associate Vice President at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Details and webcast registration here.

Go On! Women, peacebuilding & the rule of law

(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia of interest) On behalf of WILIG, the Women in International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, we are delighted to announce the following program: "Women, Peacebuilding, and Advancing the Rule of Law," to be held 6:30-8:30 p.m. on September 30, 2009, at Tillar House, ASIL's headquarters, at 2223 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Cosponsors along with WILIG are ASIL's Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group, Vital Voices, the American Bar Association's International Law Section, Africa Committee and the Women's Interest Network, the Institute for Inclusive Security, and Women in International Security.
Women are an important part of the peacebuilding equation. Too often they are excluded or marginalized in the peace process. Limiting or excluding women from the peacebuilding process in a meaningful way not only leaves a critical resource untapped, but hinders a society's recovery. Women can be agents of change, advocates for justice and peace, and leaders in reestablishing rule of law. (credit for 2008 photo by I. Vuni of women at Uganda peace talks in Juba, Sudan)
Program Chair and Moderator is Melanne A. Civic, Senior Rule of Law Advisor at the U.S. Secretary of State's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, who is on detail to the Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University.
The panelists, who will discuss the critical role of women in peacebuilding as well as comment on the July 2009 Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1820 (2008), "Women and Peace and Security," are:
►Melanne Verveer, the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, who is also the cofounder and former CEO of Vital Voices;
►Swanee Hunt, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria between 1993 and 1997 and now is Chair of the Institute for Inclusive Security (formerly Women Waging Peace); and
►Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and Director of the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster in the North of Ireland.
Details and registration here.

Go On! "Gender, International Law & the New Administration"

(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia of interest) In this, our 1st joint post as Co-Chairs of WILIG, the Women in International Law Group of the American Society of International Law, we are delighted to announce WILIG's next event. Entitled "Gender Issues, International Law, and the New Administration," it will be held from 12 noon- 2 p.m. Thursday, July 2, at Tillar House, the ASIL headquarters located at 2223 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
This luncheon event will consider the positions of the Obama Administration on issues such as:

► Ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women;

► Combating trafficking in persons;

► "Gender architecture," the restructuring of the United Nations to allow better focus and attention to gender issues; and

► Need for followup action on Security Council Resolution 1820 (2008), "Women and peace and security," in order to combat sexual violence during armed conflict.

Two panelists from the U.S. State Department will lead the discussion. They are Ambassador Melanne Verveer (above right), Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, and Ambassador Luis C. de Baca (left), Director of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking In Persons.

The event is free to ASIL members; $15 for all others. Registration and details here.