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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2010
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: WE NEED TO ACT
Venue: The World Bank | H Building Eugene Black Auditorium

12:00pm – 5:00pm | Public Lecture & Panels

12:00pm – 1:00pm | Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Settings – Why Does It Matter?

Welcome

  • Inger Andersen
    Vice President, Sustainable Development Network, The World Bank
  • Pamela Aall
    Provost, The Academy for International Conflict and Peacebuilding, United States Institute of Peace

Introduction:

  • Mahmoud Mohieldin
    Managing Director, The World Bank

Keynote Speaker:

  • Margot Wallström
    Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations

Moderator:

  • Inger Andersen
    Vice President, Sustainable Development Network, The World Bank

1:00pm – 1:15pm | Break

1:15pm – 2:45pm | Gender-Based Violence – A Way Towards Prevention

Introduction:

  • Mayra Buvinic
    Sector Director, Gender and Development, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, The World Bank

Panelist Discussion:

  • Sanam Anderlini
    Executive Director, International Civil Society Action Network
  • Gary Barker
    Director, Gender, Violence and Rights, International Center for Research on Women
  • Lisa Davis
    Human Rights Advocacy Director, MADRE
  • Stephen Ndegwa
    Lead Specialist, Public Sector Governance and The 2011 World Development Report on Conflict, Security and Development, The World Bank
  • Pia Peeters
    Senior Social Development Specialist, AFTCS, The World Bank

Moderator:

  • Sudhir Shetty
    Director, The 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, The World Bank

2:45pm – 3:00pm | Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm | Film Screening and Discussion

Film Screening:

  • "Weapon of War" - Directed by Ilse and Femke van Velzen

Discussants:

  • Wegger Strømmen
    The Norwegian Ambassador to the United States
  • Sylvie Maunga Mbanga
    Consultant on Conflict, Human Rights, Peace Building Process and Gender-Based Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Moderator:

  • Elisabeth Huybens
    Sector Manager, Social Development Department, The World Bank 

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2010
NO PEACE WITHOUT WOMEN
Venue:  The Elliott School of International Affairs | The George Washington University

5:30pm – 8:00pm | Public Lecture and Reception

5:30pm – 7:00pm | No Peace without Women

Welcome:

  • Michael E. Brown
    Dean of The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Keynote Speaker:

  • Zainab Salbi
    Founder and CEO, Women for Women International

Moderator:

  • Barbara Miller
    Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, The George Washington University

7:00pm – 8:00pm | Reception


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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2010
WOMEN AND WAR:  POWER AND PROTECTION
Venue: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Foggy Bottom

8:15am -9:00am | Registration

9:00am -10:00am | Session 1: Women and War: Power and Protection

Welcome:

  • Kathleen Kuehnast
    Gender Advisor, Gender and Peacebuilding Initiative, United States Institute of Peace
  • Jolynn Shoemaker
    Executive Director, Women in International Security

Introduction & Moderator:

Speakers:

  • Ambassador Melanne Verveer
    United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, United States Department of State
  • The Honorable L. Tammy Duckworth
    Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, United States Department of Veterans Affairs

10:00am -11:00am | Session 2: Women at the Center of Peace: Why UN Security Council Resolution 1325 Matters

Introduction:

  • Ambassador Renée Jones-Bos
    H.E. Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States

Speakers:

  • Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury
    Former Under Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, United Nations
  • Margot Wallström
    Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations
  • Rosa Brooks
    Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law and Humanitarian Policy, United States Department of Defense

11:00am -11:15am | Break

11:15am -12:00pm | Session 3: Changing the Face of Global Security

Introduction:

Keynote Speaker:

  • Admiral Michael Mullen
    Chairman, United States Joint Chiefs of Staff

12:00pm -12:15pm | Pre-lunch Break

12:15pm - 2:15pm | Luncheon and Dialogue | Session 4: Why UN Security Council Resolution 1325 Matters to Men

  • Ambassador Donald Steinberg
    Deputy Administrator, United States Agency for International Development
  • Joseph Hoenen
    Gender Expert, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Afghanistan (the Netherlands)
  • Jok Madut Jok
    Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace
  • Ambassador Steven E. Steiner
    Former Senior Advisor, Office of Global Women’s Issues, United States Department of State

Moderator:

  • Frank Sesno
    Director, School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University

2:15pm – 2:30pm | Break

2:30pm - 3:00pm | Session 5: Impacts of Media on Women, War and Peace

Introduction:

  • M. Charito Kruvant
    President and CEO, Creative Associates International, Inc.

Speaker:

  • Abigail Disney
    Filmmaker, Philanthropist, and Producer of the film “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”

Discussant:

  • Visaka Dharmadasa
    Founder and Chair of Association of War-Affected Women and Parents of Servicemen Missing in Action (Sri Lanka)

3:00pm - 4:00pm | Session 6: How Women are Transforming War into Peacebuilding

  • Safaa Adam
    Secretary General, Community Development Association (Sudan)
  • Cerue Garlo
    Executive Director, Women NGOs Secretariat of Liberia (Liberia)
  • Suraiya Kamaruzzaman
    Executive Director, Flower Aceh (Indonesia)
  • Turid Smith Polfus
    Research Fellow, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (Israel-Palestine)
  • Mossarat Qadeem
    Executive Director, Paiman Alumni Trust (Pakistan)
  • Lina Zedriga
    Program Director, UN Security Council Resolution 1325 Project (Uganda)

Moderator:

  • John Tirman
    Executive Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:00pm - 5:00pm | Session 7: Setting the Agenda for the Next Decade

  • Sanam Anderlini
    Executive Director, International Civil Society Action Network
  • Jimmie Briggs
    Executive Director, Man Up Campaign
  • Carla Koppell
    Director, The Institute for Inclusive Security

Moderators:

  • Kathleen Kuehnast
    Gender Advisor, Gender and Peacebuilding Initiative, United States Institute of Peace
  • Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
    Associate Vice President, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program, United States Institute of Peace

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2010
THE TROUBLE WITH THE CONGO
Venue: U.S. Institute of Peace

8:45am - 9:30am | Registration

9:30am - 10:45am | Session 1: The Trouble with the Congo – The Failure of International Peacebuilding

Introduction:

  • Séverine Autesserre
    Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (2004-2005). Author of "The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding," Cambridge University Press, 2010

Panelists:

  • Raymond Gilpin
    Associate Vice President, Sustainable Economies, United States Institute of Peace
  • Christine Karumba
    Democratic Republic of Congo Country Director, Women for Women International

Moderator:

  • Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
    Associate Vice President, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program, United States Institute of Peace

10:45am – 11:00am | Coffee Break

11:00am – 12:30pm | Session 2: The Trouble with the Congo – Sexual Violence and The Failure of Protection

Panelists:

  • Howard Wolpe
    Special Advisor, Great Lakes Region, U.S. Department of State (Ret)
  • Diane Orentlicher
    Professor of International Law and Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Washington College of Law, American University
  • Major-General Patrick Cammaert
    Military Advisor in the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (invited)

Moderator:

  • Paula Newberg
    Marshall B. Coyne Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University

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