San Diego: Darfur, Iraq, Ivory Coast, UN Res 1325 - women working for peace & security or typecast victims of conflict?

Darfur, Iraq, Cote d'Ivoire. Ah... our work is cut out.

The Joan Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, with Unifem, the Canadian Committee on Women, Peace and Security and the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, convenes a working conference on advancing implementation of UN Security Council Res 1325. This week - 18-20 Nov - in San Diego, California. Be there or be square.

Appropriate place to discuss the Kampala Resolution on Women, Peace and Conflict, excerpted here, drafted 27 July 2002, by Ancil Adrian-Paul, Eva Dalak, Patrick Mbuthia, Gina Van Schalk and myself, at the 2002 Women's Worlds conference hosted by the Dept of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda where Episcopal priest Rev. Grace Ndyabahika convened the women, peace and conflict track and recruited 'us' drafters.