Eva Smets, Executive Director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, discusses ways of ensuring peace agreements focus on the protection of children.
Author: Andrea Ó Súilleabháin
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Where communities are affected by fragility, gender equality becomes critical to violence prevention.
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During the General Assembly debate following the adoption of the resolution, most member states hailed the conceptual shift from peacebuilding to sustaining peace as transformative and forward-looking.
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Visaka Dharmadasa, Founder and Chair of the Association of War Affected Women, speaks about Sri Lanka’s political transition and the role of women in building peace in the country.
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Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka discusses progress on women’s empowerment.
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Anne Marie Goetz, Clinical Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, discusses progress on women’s rights during the past two decades.
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Mahmoud Mohamedou, Deputy Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, discusses the difficulty in developing a proactive counterterrorism strategy against groups such as the Islamic State.
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Dr. Saisuree Chutikul said research has shown there are many benefits to increasing the involvement of women in peacekeeping, particularly when it comes to dealing with other women.
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Women affected by forced displacement still struggle to access the most basic services, but some initiatives offer useful lessons for the UN and NGO communities.
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International NGOs still struggle to achieve ‘local ownership’ in peacebuilding, but a new approach is working on putting local people in the lead.
