Looking back on RAMSI: mainstreaming women, peace and security into Australian foreign policy and practice

UNSCR1325 Anniversary Event

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in partnership with the ANU Gender Institute is holding an event to mark the 13th anniversary of UNSCR1325 on Women, Peace and Security. The Australian Regional Assistance Mission in Solomon Islands (RAMSI) is in the process of winding up. Now that we have an Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, this an appropriate time to look back on the work of RAMSI and whether it addressed the role and needs of women. A panel made up of members with personal experience and expertise in RAMSI programs will discuss whether Australia’s stated commitment to UNSCR 1325 translated into meaningful action on the ground.

Presenters will include:

Dr. Jasmine-Kim Westendorf is a lecturer in International Relations at La Trobe University. Her research explores why negotiated peace processes often fail to establish lasting peace, and she has worked extensively on issues of conflict resolution, peace processes, peace-building, and the international community's responses to civil wars across a range of cases in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. She co-founded and convenes the Melbourne Free University.
Sue Ingram has a long career in public policy, peace-building and international development, including as a senior executive in Australian Government - including AusAID. She has also held several appointments in UN peacekeeping missions in Timor-Leste before and after independence. Sue was head of RAMSI’s Machinery of Government pillar, the area with responsibility for the Women in Government Project within RAMSI. More recently she has worked as an independent consultant/adviser focusing on governance and state-building in fragile and conflict-affected states for AusAID, the World Bank, UNDP and OECD. Sue is now studying full-time towards a PhD.

RSVP: by Thursday 7 November, For catering purposes please book with Eventbrite

Light refreshments will be served outside the theatrette from 5.30 and the forum will start at 6.00pm

Contact: Martina Fechner or call 6125 6281 (Mon- Wed)

Access: Free and open to the public