[SDCPJ] Women PeaceMakers Conference and Dinner

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From: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice <andreabell@sandiego.edu>
Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Subject: Women PeaceMakers Conference and Dinner
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Breaking Barriers: What it will take to achieve security, justice and peace September 26-28, 2012 Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice

We are now at the end of August - "Breaking Barriers: What it will take to achieve security, justice and peace" is only one month away! We hope you will be able to join us at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice for this international conference of peacebuilders held in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the Women PeaceMakers Program. This singular working conference will convene nearly 40 Women PeaceMakers from 33 countries with other peacebuilders and human rights defenders to strategize how to overcome both the age-old and newly systematized impediments to peace. Understanding that peace does not come at the end of conflict but with the rise of justice, panel presentations, workshops and breakout working sessions will engage delegates to formulate recommendations under three primary areas: security, justice and peace. For more information, to review the agenda and to register to become a delegate, please visit: http://peace.sandiego.edu/breaking_barriers Confirmed Speakers and Presenters:

Lina Abou-Habib Executive Director Collective for Research and Training on Development - Action Mahnaz Afkhami Founder and President Women's Learning Partnership Manisha Aryal Director, Internews Global Human Rights Program Maria Butler Attorney-at-law, Project Associate for PeaceWomen Project Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Rebecca Gerome Program Officer, Women's Network International Action Network on Small Arms Amal Abdel Hadi Steering Committee Member Arab Regional Coalition "Equality without Reservation" Catherine Harrington Program and Communications Associate Women's Learning Partnership Fahima Hashim Director Salmmah Women's Resource Center Yee Htun Coordinator, International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict Nobel Women's Initiative Brigid Inder Founding Executive Director Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice Asma Jahangir Former President Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan

Asma Khader General Coordinator Sisterhood is Global Institute- Jordan Chi Yvonne Leina Correspondent WorldPulse Katherine Magraw Director Peace and Security Funders Group Jacqueline Pitanguy Founder and Executive Director Cidadania, Estudo, Pesquisa, Informação e Ação Dr. Nadine Puechguirbal Senior Gender Advisor U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations Mossarat Qadeem Founder and Executive Director PAIMAN Trust Madeleine Rees Secretary General Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Mary Hope Schwoebel Senior Program Officer, Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding United States Institute of Peace Sarah Taylor Executive Coordinator NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security Nahla Valji Programme Specialist, Rule of Law and Transitional Justice UN Women Lilia Velasquez Attorney Certified Specialist in Immigration and National Law

Before the conference we will also be holding an event to meet the Women PeaceMakers who have participated in the program: A Private Dinner with the PeaceMakers Monday, September 24, 2012, 6 - 8:30 p.m.

Please join us for a special evening celebrating the 10th anniversary of the award-winning Women PeaceMakers Program, to be held on USD's picturesque campus. This intimate gathering will host the nearly 40 Women PeaceMakers who have participated in the program over its first decade, along with supporters and those interested in the program, for a three-course dinner and one-of-a-kind opportunity to meet these incredible women leaders.

To attend the Private Dinner with the PeaceMakers, click here.

For a list of Women PeaceMakers attending the conference, click here.

 

Generously supported by grants from the Fred J. Hansen Foundation, Open Society Foundations and the Raskob Foundation. Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110 | (619) 260-7618 andreabell@sandiego.edu

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