Engaging Women in the Security Sector

Note: USIP will feature a live webcast of this event beginning at 9:00 AM EST on January 28, 2010.

What specific and unique contributions do women make throughout the security sector? How can military, police, and policy communities enable their participation? How can troops not only protect women from sexual and other violence, but acknowledge and engage them as critical resources to fulfilling mission mandates? A panel will discuss these questions as well as potential human rights-based arguments to convince local partners of the importance of including a gender lens to security efforts.

Speakers

• Jacqueline O’Neill
  Lead Advocacy Coordinator, The Institute for Inclusive Security
• Major General (ret) Patrick Cammaert
  Former Commander of the Eastern Division of the UN Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC)
• Scott Carlson
  Rule of Law Advisor, United States Institute of Peace
• Nadia Gerspacher, Moderator
  Program Officer, Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, United States Institute of Peace

Explore Further

• Watch the video of this event online