Mainstreaming Gender in the Military & the Security Sector: The Role of Civil Society- Panel 2
Channel: United States Institute of Peace
Date: 2014-07-02

Panel II: Civil society and security sector reform

Gender mainstreaming has been only one part of a global agenda to make security sector actors more accountable, transparent, and representative. Civil society, long a watchdog of the security sector, is increasingly partnering with governments to implement reforms through citizen oversight councils and trainings on human rights, gender and protection of minorities for the armed forces, including peacekeepers.

The panelists discussed the role civil society plays in security sector transformation from the perspectives of active programs in the field and the donor and policy environment needed to support this kind of work throughout the world.

For more information: http://www.usip.org/events/mainstreaming-gender-in-the-military-the-security-sector-the-role-civil-society

Speakers:

    Michael Bittrick
    Deputy Director, Office of Regional and Security Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs
    U.S. Department of State
    Michael Hess
    Vice President for Global Accounts
    L-3 Communications/MPRI
    Teresa Crawford
    Director
    Partners for Democratic Change
    Betty Reardon, Discussant
    Consultant and Founding Director Emeritus
    International Institute on Peace Education, Columbia University
    Robert Perito, Moderator
    Director, Security Sector Governance Center
    U.S. Institute of Peace