Lessons Learned – Workshops / 1325 and Future Perspectives | Gunda-Werner-Institut

Focus 1

Lessons Learned – Workshops: The Implementation of the UN Resolution 1325

9.00 Welcome and Introduction to the Workshops
Gitti Hentschel, Director of the Gunda-Werner-Institut, Berlin
9.30 Workshops "Lessons Learned" Concrete: The Implementation of UN Resolution 1325
(registered participants only)

Based on the speakers’ inputs regarding the political consideration of UNSCR 1325 in different countries and regions, specific strategies and demands for implementation should be developed: what general conditions must be fulfilled? To what extent do the standards and indicators proposed by the UN-Secretary General help? What strategies are necessary?

Workshop 1: Israel/Palestine
with:
Zahira Kamal, Minister of Women's Affairs, Palestine
Anat Saragusti, Journalist, Director of Agenda, Member of IWC, Israel
1325 and the cross-boarder cooperation of women’s groups
results protocol (PDF)

Workshop 2: Liberia
with:
Rebecca Stubblefield, Medica Mondiale Liberia
1325 and the creation of a female police unit
results protocol (PDF)
In retrospective - Interview with Rebecca Stubblefield (by Jehn Chan on Gender is Happening)

Workshop 3: Afghanistan
with:
Soraya Subhrangh, Commissioner for Women's rights at the Independent Afghan Human Rights Commission, Afghanistan
Kamila Faizyar, Women and Children Legal Research Foundation, Afghanistan (tbc)
1325 and the fight contra violence against women

Workshop 4: Caucasus
with:
Martina Grasse, OWEN, Mobile Academy for Gender Democracy and Peacebuilding, Berlin
Edgar Khachatryan, Omnibus 1325 Project, Armenia
1325 and the transnational cooperation of civil society

Workshop 5: Irak
with:
Hanaa Edwards, Director ASUDA, and Amal Association.Irak
1325 and the reorganisation of the state after the intervention
Dream of peace (by Jehn Chan on Gender is Happening)
In Retrospective 2 - Interview with Hanaa Edwar Busha (by Jehn Chan on Gender is Happening)

11.45 Results and Recommendations of the Workshops
Facilitation: Nicola Popovic, Consultant, Germany
Achievments and resistance on the way to the implementation of 1325
Video stream (57 Minutes, English)

12.30 Lunch Break

Focus 2

1325 and Future Perspectives: Sexualised Violence, Militarised Masculinity and Traditional Women’s Roles in Conflict Management

1325 and Future Perspectives: Sexualised Violence, Militarised Masculinity and Traditional Women’s Roles in Conflict Management

14.00 Panel Discussion:
Does research and work on masculinity undermine a feminist agenda?

Talking about the construction of gender roles includes a discussion about images of masculinity. It is often criticised that the feminist peace research suffers from this approach. How can both projects be connected wisely?

Input:
Paul Higate, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Politics, University of Bristol, UK
- Does Research on Masculinity Undermine a Feminist Agenda?
Panel Members:
Henri Myrttinen, International Affairs Consultant and Contractor, Berlin
- Masculinities, Conflict and UNSCR 1325
Monika Hauser, Director, medica mondiale, Deutschland

Facilitator:
Cilja Harders, Head of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Freie Universität Berlin
Video stream (1 Hour 25 Minutes, English/German)

15.30 Break
16.00 Parallel Fora for selected country examples
(registered participants only)

Forum 1: Focal Point Africa –
Gender Constructions and Sexualised violence in War and Conflict
Input:
Wanjiku Wakogi, Regional Gender Programme Coordinator, Heinrich Böll Foundation, East and Horn of Africa, Nairobi, Kenia
Awino Okech, University of Cape Town
Building secure spaces. How can security for women in (post-) conflict societies be (re-) established?
results protocol (PDF)

Forum 2: Sexualised violence against men: the taboo inside the taboo
Input:
Sandesh Sivakumaran, Lecturer in Law, Nottingham University
Understanding the problem. What answers do the UN have to sexualised violence against men?
results protocol (PDF)

Forum 3: Focal Point Serbia/Kosova –
Women in war: between traditional women’s role and resistance, between complicity and victimhood
Input:
Natasa Lambic, Women in Black, Serbia
results protocol (PDF)

Forum 4: Militarised masculinity in crisis and conflict – what does it imply for conflict management?
Input:
Paul Higate, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Politics, University of Bristol, U.K.
The image of the soldier. What impact do militarised roles have on social (gender-)structures?
results protocoal (PDF)
18.15 Break
19.30 Public Panel Discussion:
"Embedded Feminism": Women’s rights as justification for military intervention
with:
Nadie Al-Ali, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Embedded Feminism- Women’s Rights as a Justification for War
Bente Scheller, hbs Afghanistan
Barbara Lochbihler, European Green Party, Brussels
Helmut Ganser, Brigadier General (ret.)

Facilitator:
Barbara Unmüßig, President Heinrich Böll Foundation

Gender inequality as legitimate reason or political pretext for armed intervention?
What is the gender of the “responsibility to protect”? What are ways out of this dilemma? In the focus of the discussion will be the cases of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Video stream (1 Hour 51 Minutes, English/German)

21.30 End of the conference day

Coping with Crises, Ending Armed Conflict – Peace Promoting Strategies of Women and Men

In cooperation with:

PeaceWomen Across the Globe & German Women's Security Council

Summary and documentation of the conference:

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