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Women, Peace and Security 2021 Webinar Series

 
The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) webinars are focused at examining the implementation of the WPS agenda at the local, national and global contexts. It has been more than 20 years since the adoption of UN Security Resolution 1325 (in 2000) yet the progress towards the goal of peace, human rights and security, gender equality and gender justice has at best been slow. This series provides a forum to hear diverse voices and perspectives - academic, civil society, government, peace builders and women human rights defenders - and to critically examine these complex challenges, with a goal of promoting the meaningful participation of women, in all their diversity, in all aspects of peace and security.
 
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that a humanitarian catastrophe is ’unfolding before our eyes’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The focus of this discussion is to understand the compounding challenges of the conflict including the humanitarian issues, gender based violence, displacement and impacts of climate and COVID, which continue to threaten millions of people, in particular women and children. Panel participants contribute their analysis and perspectives on how these challenges can begin to be addressed to move towards overcoming the conflict and towards peace.
 
Speakers
  • Tinebeb Berhane
  • Fanaye Solomon
  • Vanessa Tsehaye
​Facilitated by Ludmilla Kwitko, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU Gender Institute
 

Event date: 28 September 2021 | Recording

This webinar examines the women-led and civil society movements that have been organised across the generations and across the globe in support of a peaceful final conclusion to the Korean war. Panelists examine the lessons which can be learned from the implementation of the women, peace and security agenda to enable meaningfully engagement of women in peace processes, and the implications of the process of moving towards a peace agreement of for the Korean peninsula, Northeast Asia region and globally.
 
Speakers
  • Professor Kozue Akabayashi
  • YouKyoung Ko
​Facilitated by Ludmilla Kwitko, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU Gender Institute
 
Event date: 12 October 2021 | Recording
 
 
This webinar examines the lessons which can be learned from building on the WPS agenda; its accomplishments and challenges; and what this means for policy and practice which integrates a gendered approach that includes meaningful participation of women and girls across all aspects of humanitarian actions to build a durable peace.
 
Speakers
  • Beth Eggleston
  • Jules L. Frost
Facilitated by Ludmilla Kwitko, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU Gender Institute
 
Event date: 2 November 2021 | Recording
 
This webinar examines the YPS Agenda in the light of the contribution that young people have historically made in peace processes, including the impact of durable peace on young people. Current global issues of concern as identified by young citizens will be discussed; including how these issues differ from, or are similar to priorities promoted by the UN or state bodies; and where there is overlap with the WPS Agenda.

Speakers

  • Associate Professor Katrina Lee-Koo
  • Dr. Helen Berents
  • Dr. Primitivo Ragandang
  • Dakshata Sharma
Facilitated by Arushi Ganguly, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the College of Asia and the Pacific
 
Event date: 23 November 2021 | Recording
 
This webinar will consider what the WPS agenda has meant for women across the Pacific. Specifically, what are the understandings and meanings of women, peace and security in a local, national and regional Pacific context, and what are the histories, knowledge and dynamics shaping these experiences?
 
Speakers
  • Ms Sharon Bhagwan Rolls
  • Dr Nicole George
​Facilitated by Ludmilla Kwitko, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU Gender Institute
 
Event date: 30 November 2021 | Recording

 

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