[Event, Washington, DC] Six Years Later: UN Resolution 1325, Women's Participation in Peace and Security-Have We Realized its Full Potential?

International Resources Group and SID-Washington invite you to the next
IRG Discussion Forum

Topic: Six Years Later: UN Resolution 1325, Women's Participation in
Peace and Security-Have We Realized its Full Potential?
When: Thursday, October 26, 2006, 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
Where: International Resources Group 1211 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite
700 Washington, DC 20036
Panelists: Deborah DeYoung (moderator), National Information Officer,
United Nations Information Center
Carla Koppell, Director of the Initiative for Inclusive Security and the
Washington DC Office of the Hunt Alternatives Fund
Sarah Martin, Advocate, Refugees International
Patricia Morris, Director of Programs, Women for Women International

In 2000, the United Nations passed Resolution 1325, a commitment which,
among other issues "Recogniz[es] that an understanding of the impact of
armed conflict on women and girls, effective institutional arrangements
to guarantee their protection and full participation in the peace
process can significantly contribute to the maintenance and promotion of
international peace and security." Now, six years later to the day, we
will examine the resolution from the perspective of implementation. Has
this resolution opened the door for women to come to the bargaining
table? In the aftermath of conflict, when women and girls are at their
most vulnerable, are they afforded protections that previously eluded
them? Join us as we talk to representatives from several international
nongovernmental organizations whose on-the-ground experiences in such
places as Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sudan, Rwanda, and
Colombia inform their perspective of the effectiveness of this
mechanism.

Speakers:

Deborah DeYoung (moderator) is an Information Officer at the UN
Information Center, the Washington office of the United Nations'
Secretary-General. She joined UNIC after a brief stint at the UN World
Food Programme in Nairobi. Prior to that, Deborah worked on Capitol Hill
for 13 years, serving as staff on three Senate committees and in the
offices of Reps. Sander Levin and Tony Hall, where she focused on
humanitarian issues. A graduate of the University of Oregon's School of
Journalism, Deborah was a reporter at a Michigan newspaper before coming
to Washington.

Carla Koppell is Director of the Initiative for Inclusive Security and
the Washington DC Office of the Hunt Alternatives Fund. She was Senior
Advisor and, prior to that, interim Director of the Conflict Prevention
Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where
she authored "Preventing the Next Wave of Conflict: Understanding
Non-Traditional Threats to Global Stability." Carla served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for International Affairs for the United States
Department of Housing and Urban Development, where she oversaw a
portfolio of cooperative programs that included efforts to assist
humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Central America, housing reform
in China and post-conflict reconstruction in South Africa. Ms. Koppell
was also Special Assistant to the Administrator of the US Agency for
International Development (USAID) and Director of the USAID climate
change program. She also has worked for the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations.

Sarah Martin joined Refugees International in 2003 where she works to
build greater awareness of women's issues and incorporates a gender
analysis of refugee situations. Ms. Martin has conducted missions to Sri
Lanka, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, West Africa,
Zimbabwe and South Africa where she has focused on gender issues in
peacekeeping, HIV/AIDS in conflict settings, and gender-based violence.
Prior to joining RI, Ms. Martin worked with the Reproductive Health for
Refugees Consortium's Gender-Based Violence Global Technical Support
Project. She has also researched the impact of reproductive health
programs on social norms in Bangladesh and Vietnam with the Empowerment
of Women Research Project at JSI and examined incidences of gender-based
violence for clandestine users of contraceptives in Mali at Family
Health International. Ms. Martin received her Masters in International
Development with a concentration on gender and anthropology from George
Washington University, and her B.A. at the University of South Carolina.
She is also certified as a trainer in gender and development by the
Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands.

Dr. Patricia T. Morris is Director of Programs at Women for Women
International. Dr. Morris manages infrastructure development, systems,
and procedural development, program design and strategic and operational
plans for the organization's Chapter Offices in Africa, Eastern Europe,
and the Middle East. Previously, Dr. Morris was the Deputy Director of
InterAction's Commission on the Advancement of Women. Dr. Morris has
worked in both Africa and Asia with international development
organizations on their gender mainstreaming initiatives. She worked on
several Women Eyes on the World Bank-US Chapter initiatives, with the
membership Committee of the Association for Women's Rights in
Development, known as AWID. She is the author of several gender
mainstreaming publications and is an adjunct professor at American
University where she teaches a course on Gender Analysis and
Development. Dr. Morris holds a Ph.D. in International Politics from
Florida State University, a Master of Arts in Comparative Politics with
an emphasis on Economic Development from Bowling Green State University,
and a B.A. in International Affairs from Jacksonville University.

This Discussion Forum, co-sponsored by IRG and the Society for
International Development-Washington, is intended to further discussion
on relevant issues of the day, with speakers and invitees from the
Washington, DC international development community-officers of foreign
embassies, government agencies, think tanks, academia, NGOs, and private
corporations-attending in a personal capacity. This is not a press
event. Feel free to bring your lunch; beverages will be provided.

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