Registration: see below

Marking the 20th anniversary of a path-breaking UNSC resolution, this year’s OxPeace conference is dedicated to the scholarship, policy and practice of women’s inclusion in peacebuilding, peacekeeping and security as well as discussions about gender-based violence and the role of grassroots actors and organisations. Providing a discussion between practitioners, policymakers and academics, the OxPeace2020 conference will reflect upon key achievements and failures in the inclusion of women in peace in the past two decades.

Programme

9.00 Introduction: Revd Dr Liz Carmichael, Co-Convener, OxPeace

9.01 Conference dinner address (would have been Friday 15 May): Teohna Williams, CEO, Business Plan for Peace

9.15 Opening Address: Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini MBE, LSE Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security

Panel I: Women in mediation and peacemaking

9.30 Dr Kevin McNicholl, post-doctoral research fellow, Edinburgh: “Using the PA-X Database to Understand Gender Perspectives in Peace Agreements”

9.45 Laura Wise, Research Associate, Edinburgh: “Beyond Handshake Moments: Supporting Women’s Inclusion in Contemporary Peace Processes”

10.00 Quhramaana Kakar, peace activist and development practitioner

10.15 Q&A

Panel II: Women in peacekeeping and peacebuilding

10.30 Dr Suad Musa, independent researcher: “UNSCR 1352 and the experience of women in Sudan”

10.45 Captain Sophie Piper, UN peacekeeping South Sudan: “Uniformed Women in South Sudan”

11.00 Q&A

11.15 Coffee Break and opportunity to engage with speakers in informal breakout sessions

Panel III: Combating sexual and gender-based violence, the search for justice and peace

11.35 Baroness Arminka Helic, former adviser to the UK Foreign Secretary, member of the House of Lords and the International Relations and Defence Committee.

11.50 Dr Henri Myrttinen, International Alert

12.05 Q&A

Closing plenary: Reflections on the WPS agenda, and on the Conference

12.20 Frances Guy, UNDP Regional Gender Advisor based in Amman.

12:40 Final comments and thanks. Where to find the podcast.

12.45 Conference ends.

REGISTRATION: (limited to the first 100 applicants)

Please register here <www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxpeace-conference-2020-women-peace-and-security-tickets-103624684220>; . Further information about the event is available at www.oxpeace2020.com.

Conference talks will hopefully be recorded and podcast, find the link on the OxPeace website in due course.

For information about OxPeace please visit our website <www.politics.ox.ac.uk/cis/cis-research-oxford-network-of-peace-studies-oxpeace.html>; and see our new video: OxPeace: Promoting the Study of Peace at Oxford University <www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUi16GsuE9o&feature=youtu.be>;