Engaging Women in the Security Sector
Channel: United States Institute of Peace
Date: 05/09/2014

What specific and unique contributions do women make throughout the security sector? How can military, police, and policy communities enable their participation? How can troops not only protect women from sexual and other violence, but acknowledge and engage them as critical resources to fulfilling mission mandates? A panel will discuss these questions as well as potential human rights-based arguments to convince local partners of the importance of including a gender lens to security efforts.

For more information: http://www.usip.org/events/engaging-women-in-the-security-sector

Speakers

    Jacqueline O’Neill
    Lead Advocacy Coordinator, The Institute for Inclusive Security
    Major General (ret) Patrick Cammaert
    Former Commander of the Eastern Division of the UN Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC)
    Scott Carlson
    Rule of Law Advisor, United States Institute of Peace
    Nadia Gerspacher, Moderator
    Program Officer, Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, United States Institute of Peace