Ideas Presented at Policy Day 1999

Below are descriptions of the policy ideas resulting from Policy Day 1999. Included are brief biographies of the presenters who sat at those tables.

Academics Connecting with Activists Worldwide
Civil-Military Cooperation
Corporate Social Responsibility
Defining Security in the New Millennium
Economic Strategies for Women Peace Builders
Fighting Organized Crime in Post-Conflict Societies
Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
Human Rights Violations in Times of Conflict
Informing the National Security Council
Integrating Women Peace Makers into US Foreign Policy
Media Efforts for Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace
NGOs and Reconstruction
NGOs, the United Nations, and Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace
Oxfam and Pubic Opinion Polling
Peace-building and Women in the South Caucuses
Post-Conflict Strategic Alliances
The European Commission and the Negotiating Table
The Role of the US Institute of Peace
The Role of Women in UN Peacekeeping Missions
The US Department of State and Information Exchange
The USAID Agenda to Support Women Peace Builders
Women and the Foreign Policy Establishment
Women Building Peace
Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace and the Organization Of American States
Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace and the Women's Movement
Women's Studies and Peace-building
World YWCA: "Weeks Without Violence"

Academics Connecting with Activists Worldwide
What if the Women's Foreign Policy Group and Women in International Security expanded their work and membership to create broad-based activist and academic networks to help promote women's leadership and bring their voices to the policy table?

Women in International Security (WIIS) is dedicated to enhancing opportunities for women working in foreign and defense policy. WIIS is able to create a policy forum for women peacemakers when they come to Washington, DC. In what other ways can the WIIS networks, including academia, think tanks, the diplomatic corps, the intelligence community, the military, and the private sector support the work of Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace?

Patricia Ellis, Executive Director, Women's Foreign Policy Group Patricia Ellis is co-founder of the WFPG. She previously taught at American University, specializing in news coverage of foreign affairs and covered foreign affairs for the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Wendy Luers, Founder & President, Foundation for a Civil Society Wendy W. Luers, was a journalist with Time, edited San Francisco Magazine and was a commentator for KQED-TV. She was a presidential appointee to the National Council of the Arts (NEA) (1988-1994); Chair of the NY White House Fellows Selection Committee; founder and President of the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies; a CSCE (now OSCE) Public Delegate and a member of the Presidential Delegation to observe the 1996 Bosnian national elections.

Sara Sewall, Board Member, Women in International Security Sarah Sewall recently joined the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy as Projects Director. She previously had been Associate Director of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Program on Negotiation in 1997 while on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship. From 1993-1996, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance, where she was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Ms. Sewall served for six years as the Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.

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Civil-Military Cooperation
Dr. Chayes and General Scott developed a Kennedy School executive program 'Initiatives in Conflict Management: Planning for Civil-Military Cooperation'. The program is designed to help participants gain the skills they need to develop and implement cooperative approaches to conflict intervention. We see increasing requirements for civilian and military organizations to work together to prevent or mitigate conflict. How can they connect to Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace?

General James Terry Scott, Director, National Security Program, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government General Scott is Director of the National Security Program and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He directs Harvard's Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security and the National Security Fellows Program. He lectures in undergraduate, graduate and executive education courses and programs. He joined the faculty after more than 32 years in the US Army. His military experience includes command of tactical units at all levels, from platoon through division.

Antonia Handler Chayes, Director and Senior Advisor, Conflict Management Group Antonia Handler Chayes is at the Conflict Management Group (CMG), a non-profit conflict resolution-consulting firm dedicated to improving methods of negotiation, dispute resolution, and cooperative decision-making as applied to issues of public concern. Chayes continues to serve as Senior Consultant to JAMS/Endispute, a firm that provides cost-effective alternatives to traditional litigation, and is also Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, where she helped develop and participates in the Kennedy School's South Africa program.

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Corporate Social Responsibility
Enron is evaluating ways of fulfilling its social responsibility obligations. Are there opportunities for Enron to work at the country level to support Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace? Would it be beneficial to create a corporate board to financially support Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace?

Kelly Kimberly, Senior Vice President of Public Relations, Enron Corporation As Senior Vice President of International Marketing, Communication and Public Relations for Enron, Kelly Kimberly oversees the public relations activities for international projects across the world. Her responsibilities include overseeing the company's strategic public relations planning, opinion research, community involvement/relations, and media relations for international projects under development, in construction, and in operation. She also manages marketing communication and employee communication activities.

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Defining Security in the New Millennium
A new definition of security should transcend the narrow interpretation of national security of the state from being confined to territory and military nuclear security, to focus on the individual citizen and therefore human security. Since the concept of human security is relatively new, it is often largely defined by the absence of elements that individuals perceive to be missing from governance processes and frameworks. What are the missing elements? How can they be put into place in order to widen the range of people's choices?

Lina Hamadeh-Banerjee, UN Development Program Lina Hamadeh-Banerjee is a Senior Program Advisor on Gender and Governance at the Management Development and Governance Division (MDGD) in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). A national of Saudi Arabia, Ms. Hamadeh-Banerjee graduated with a BA from the American University of Beirut and has a Masters of Arts in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester.

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Economic Strategies for Women Peace Builders
What economic strategies can further the work of women trying to confront violence in their regions? How can the offices of the President of the United States and the First Lady support the work of Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace? Hillary Rodham Clinton has been meeting with women around the world, and she has chaired a major Washington conference on micro-enterprise. President Clinton established the Bosnian Women's Initiative, to foster economic development in a traumatized post-conflict situation. Are these actions on target? What else would be most useful?

Melanne Verveer, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady, The White House Melanne Verveer's responsibilities include overseeing the work of the First Lady's office related to issues and policy. Verveer has accompanied the First Lady on her goodwill missions around the world, including the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, and on her trips to Southeast Asia, Latin America, Central Europe, Bosnia and Africa.

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Fighting Organized Crime in Post-Conflict Societies
Organized crime is the bane of post-conflict areas all over the world, including those where the US has peacekeeping troops. The appropriateness of military involvement in combating this problem is a conundrum. Might women create the backbone in the fight against organized crime in Kosovo? If so, how would the military support their work? The repercussions would extend beyond the US military, and the effect would be global.

Ambassador John Menzies, European Affairs, US Department of State Mr. Menzies was nominated by John Kornblum, Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian affairs, who said: "Literally sleeping next to his desk for a year, John worked tirelessly to create the conditions for peace. The negotiations of the Dayton Accords are in part a testimony to his dedication. He demonstrated a rare ability to keep US policy firmly in mind while never losing sight of the real people and their suffering around him.

Colonel Mike Dziedzic, Colonel, National Defense Academy Col. Michael J. Dziedzic is presently a Senior Military Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS). His principle areas of research are peace operations and security affairs in the Western Hemisphere. Previously, he was a member of the faculty at the National War College. Before arriving at NWC, he served as Air Attach� in El Salvador from 1992-94, during the implementation of the peace accords.

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Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
How might the UN Commission for Human Rights or The Carter Center lend support to individuals and groups that are under pressure while operating as activists? Would it be helpful to Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace to draft and support a resolution promoting the advancement of democratic societies that uphold human rights?

Ambassador Nancy Rubin, US Representative to the UN Commission for Human Rights, United Nations Nancy Rubin is recognized for 25 years of work with the US government, the United Nations, and the social service sector for her contributions and commitments to protecting and promoting human rights. As Ambassador, she currently serves as US Representative to the UN Commission for Human Rights. The Commission investigates alleged violations of abuses, establishes standards and norms and provides technical assistance to advance the enjoyment of human rights for all but with increased attention to the protection and rights of vulnerable groups in society, including minorities and indigenous people and to the protection of the rights of children and women. Her service in government includes both the Clinton White House and the Carter White House.

Karin Ryan, Vice Chair of Human Rights Committee, Carter Center Karin Ryan has worked on human rights issues at The Carter Center since 1988 and is now Vice Chair of its Human Rights Committee. Ms. Ryan advises President and Mrs. Carter, as well senior Carter Center staff, on human rights cases and issues in many countries. She has designed programs to promote and protect human rights in Ethiopia, Haiti, Liberia, and Nigeria.

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Human Rights Violations in Times of Conflict
Protection of women's rights is integral to sustainable peace. Both in times of peace and in times of armed conflict, women's lives are in danger. In times of peace, women may be victims of sexual and domestic violence. In times of armed conflict, women may be victims of organized rape and other sexual assault. In order to assure accountability for crimes against women, it is important that people understand how to document abuses against women and to do advocacy with governments to ensure that individual perpetrators are punished. This approach provides both redress to the women victims and can prevent future violence against women. The Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch can help participants identify training opportunities to gain or build on existing skills to document women's rights abuses and to do advocacy (domestically and internationally) on the protection of women's rights. There can be no sustainable peace without respect for women's rights.

LaShawn R. Jefferson, Deputy Director of Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch LaShawn R. Jefferson is the Deputy Director of the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. She is the author/editor of numerous reports on women's rights, including, "Rape in Haiti: A Weapon of Terror" (July 1994); chapters from the Human Rights Watch Global Report on Women's Human Rights (released at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in August 1995); "No Guarantees: Sex Discrimination in Mexico's Maquiladora Sector" (August 1996); and "A Job or Your Rights: Continued Sex Discrimination in Mexico's Maquiladora Sector" (December 1998). In 1997, Ms. Jefferson conducted a mission to Peru to document domestic and sexual violence against women, including sexual violence in custody against women arrested for alleged political crimes.

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Informing the National Security Council
The office of the Vice President works with the National Security Council of the White House to integrate information and priorities from various arms of the US government, including the Department of State, Department of Defense, and Central Intelligence Agency. In what ways can the work of our delegates inform policymakers in the NSC on the sources of conflict? Are these really ethnic struggles or something else? Can diplomatic systems learn what women seem to intuit about bridging conflicts? How can we build a bridge from the wisdom of grassroots activists to the tables around which the policymakers sit?

Leon Fuerth, National Security Advisor to the Vice President, The White House Mr. Fuerth is Vice President Gore's longest serving staff member. The two met in 1980, after then-Congressman Gore was assigned to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence where Mr. Fuerth was a staff member. When Mr. Gore was elected to the Senate in 1985, Mr. Fuerth joined his Senate staff as Senior Legislative Assistant for National Security, advising Senator Gore on arms control, space policy, international trade, and global environmental issues. In the Clinton-Gore Administration, Mr. Fuerth is involved in a wide range of foreign policy issues and manages the Vice President's bi-national commissions with Russia, South Africa, Egypt, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. He is also a specialist on economic sanctions and led Administration efforts to tighten sanctions enforcement against Serbia.

Graham T. Allison, Jr, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University From 1977-89, Dr. Allison served as Dean of the School. Under his leadership, a small, undefined program grew twenty-fold to become a major professional school of public policy and government. In 1993-1994, Dr. Allison served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans where he coordinated DOD strategy and policy towards Russia, Ukraine, and the other states of the former Soviet Union. He continues as a Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense. Dr. Allison has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books and 100 articles, including, most recently, Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material (1996); Cooperative Denuclearization: From Pledges to Deeds (1993); and Beyond Cold War to Trilateral Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region (1992). As Executive Director of the Commission on America's National Interests, he served as principal author of its report, America's National Interests (1996). His first book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), just recently released in a thoroughly updated and revised second edition (1999), ranks among the best-sellers in political science with more than 200,000 copies in print. Dr. Allison has been a member of the Secretary of Defense's Defense Policy Board for Secretaries Weinberger, Carlucci, Cheney, and Perry. He was a founding member of the Trilateral Commission, a Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of many public committees and commissions. He has served on the boards of the Getty Oil Company, New England Securities, The Taubman Companies, and Belco Oil and Gas, as well as on the advisory boards of Chase Bank, Hydro-Quebec, and the International Energy Corporation.

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Integrating Women Peace Makers into US Foreign Policy
How might the State Department integrate women peacemakers into US foreign policy?

Theresa Loar, Senior Coordinator, International Women's Issues, US Department of State and Director, President's Interagency Council on Women President Clinton appointed Theresa Loar as Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues at the US Department of State in July 1996. Her mandate is to promote the human rights of women within US foreign policy. Ms. Loar also serves as Director of the President's Interagency Council on Women. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is the Honorary Chair of the Council and Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright serves as Chair.

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Media Efforts for Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace
The Overseas Press Club and the Communications Consortium Media Center could work with women peace-builders helping to identify two to three mainstream / international journalists and coaching the women in how to provide journalist-specific information on women's work -- story lines, phone numbers of principles, etc. Connections might be made to "freedom of press committees." Targeted journalists should include foreign press corps as well as local news reporters covering crisis/negotiations/peace talks, etc. This ongoing relationship could allow interviews to be arranged in crisis times. A directory of Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace could be shared with the press.

Jane Ciabattari, Vice President Overseas Press Club, Contributing Editor, Parade Magazine Jane Ciabattari writes the Intelligence Report column, which reaches 82 million Americans each week. For Parade she has reported from Berlin, Brussels, Havana, Hong Kong, London, Marrakesh, Paris, Prague, Rome and Shanghai. She is a past president of the Women's Media Group, and a member of the UN Correspondents Association and the Women's Foreign Policy Group.

Lael Stegall, Co-Director, STAR Network of World Learning Lael Stegall is a founder and co-director of The STAR Project of World Learning, a USAID and privately funded initiative. Public policy advocacy and political leadership, financial strategies development, philanthropy, and communications for social change have been the focus of Lael Stegall's work for more than twenty-five years. She is a founder of significant non-profit organizations and new philanthropies, and is a respected strategist for foundations and public policy organizations in both domestic and international settings.

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NGOs and Reconstruction
NGOs and other civil society organizations are making significant contributions to facilitating transition from conflict to development reconstruction, which has become a crucial issue in the post-cold war developing world: e.g., in Sierra Leone, Sudan, Haiti, El Salvador, Bosnia, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, and East Timor. There are four crucial gaps to fill in this transition: gaps of political will; international architecture; mission creep; and financial gaps. What are the solutions?

Jim Moody, President, InterAction Former Congressman Jim Moody is the President and CEO of InterAction, a coalition of 160 NGOs working overseas in disaster relief, sustainable development and refugee assistance. InterAction is the nation's leading advocate for aid to the world's poorest countries. In addition to advocacy, InterAction promotes public-understanding members' programs and develops ethical, programmatic and financial standards required for membership in InterAction.

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NGOs, the United Nations, and Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace
Women have been kept away from the negotiating table deliberately, and to the detriment of world peace. Can an NGO, registered at the UN, with close connections to peace-makers all over the world, break open that process, by insisting on fair gender representation in future negotiations? How might Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace push that agenda synergistically?

Cora Weiss, President, Hague Appeal for Peace Cora Weiss has been well known as a peace activist since the early 60's, when she was a co-founder of Women Strike for Peace which brought about the end of nuclear testing in the atmosphere. She played a pivotal role in getting organizations to protest the war in Vietnam and helped organize anti-war demonstrations, including the largest one on November 15, 1969 in Washington. She also was Co-Chair and Director of the Committee of Liaison with Families of Prisoners Detained in Vietnam.

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Oxfam and Pubic Opinion Polling
Oxfam would be interested in supporting civil society organizations that wish to conduct public opinion polling on a variety of issues, including how women view their role and contribution in conflict transformation, particularly in areas where there is ongoing conflict or where there is ongoing peace-building attempts.

Raymond C. Offenheiser, Jr., President, OXFAM America Raymond C. Offenheiser has served four years as President of Oxfam America, a Boston-based international development and humanitarian assistance agency and US affiliate of the global Oxfam International network. During its 30-year history, Oxfam America has distinguished itself for its thoughtful and partner-centered approach to building grassroots organizational capacity overseas, its independent voice on important US foreign and development issues, and its unique perspective on development that has blended concerns for equity, social and economic well-being and human rights.

Laura Roper, Director of Program and Planning, OXFAM America Laura Roper has been with Oxfam America for ten years. Currently, she is the Program Planning and Learning Director and Deputy Director of the Global Department. Dr. Roper is responsible for improving the quality of Oxfam America's programs in the US and overseas through: staff development of core competencies in the areas of community-based resource management, development finance, and strategies for supporting civic participation for the non-governmental sector; development and support of cross-regional research initiatives; collaboration with regional programs on program planning; and development of evaluation protocols for the regional programs.

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Peace-building and Women in the South Caucuses
The National Peace Foundation wants to send teams to regions, especially the South Caucuses, who could be advisors/facilitators for those engaged in conversations of peace-making and peace-building, specifically trying to resolve immediate conflicts or those stalled in negotiations.

Stephen Strickland, Chair/President, National Peace Foundation Stephen Strickland has been President of the National Peace Foundation since 1988, during which period he has led its expansion from a "citizens' lobby" for increased awareness and use of conflict resolution concepts from the community to the national and international levels, to an action agency developing and often carrying out education programs in US urban schools and a variety of peace-building programs in several regions of the world.

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Post-Conflict Strategic Alliances
The World Bank is actively getting involved in the global policy area of peace- building. To this end a special unit has been established called the post-conflict unit to serve as a focal point for the Bank: undertaking policy analysis; providing strategic operational support to the Bank's country teams working in conflict-affected countries; building knowledge and best practice in conflict prevention and post conflict reconstruction; and strengthening external partnerships with civil society, NGOs, governments and transitional authorities, UN agencies, and bilateral donors, among others. We would very much like to develop our understanding of the role of women in peace-building, exploring potential areas for collaboration such as documenting best practice in social and economic reintegration of war-affected populations; promoting reconciliation and the reknitting of the social fabric of war-torn societies; and transferring knowledge on what works institutionally to manage conflict and diversity and preventing violent conflict.

The Center for the Strategic Initiatives of Women works on strengthening women's organizations by building their capacity and supporting their initiatives on the ground. They focus as well on building strategic alliances between organizations and different sectors of civil society. How is this possible? How can this work for Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace?

Nat Colleta, Post-Conflict Unit Manager, World Bank Mr. Colletta, a US national, brings both post-conflict reconstruction knowledge and World Bank experience to the Post Conflict Unit. Over the past several years, he has provided innovative leadership in this area, pioneering the World Bank's first involvement in the demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants, and supporting programs to address the needs of internally displaced persons and refugees. Since 1996, he has held the position of Lead Specialist for Social Policy in the Economic Management and Social Policy Department of the Africa Region.

Hibaaq Osman Basbas, Executive Director, Center For Strategic Initiatives Of Women Hibaaq Osman Basbas is the founder and the Executive Director of the Center for the Strategic Initiatives of Women (CSIW), based in Washington, DC. Ms. Osman serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Political Leadership and Participation at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has coordinated peace-building actions for individuals and non-government organizations, lobbied Congress, and conducted extensive media outreach and public awareness campaigns.

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The European Commission and the Negotiating Table
The European Commission wants to explore how women could be more integrated into both policy formation and dialogue, as well as increasing their involvement in post-conflict situations and peace building. Part of the EC's regional cross-border technical and development assistance program should be devoted to bringing women's groups together to discuss their respective views of contentious issues, whether border disputes, treatment of minorities, social and economic problems, such as water shortages, etc., and to establish a database and documentation of such initiatives. Would this have significance both in gender awareness and institution building?

Fraser Cameron, Policy Counselor, European Commission Delegation in Washington Dr. Fraser Cameron was a Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg (1973-74) and a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Kent (1974-75). From 1975-89, he was a member of the British Diplomatic Service serving inter-alia in New York, Bonn, and East Berlin. Since joining the European Commission in 1990, Dr. Cameron has been closely involved in the external relations of the Union, specializing in transatlantic relations, European security issues and enlargement.

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The Role of the US Institute of Peace
How can the United States Institute of Peace help build the capacity of women globally as they work to stabilize areas of conflict?

Harriett Hentges, Executive Vice President, US Institute for Peace Dr. Harriet Hentges is a senior executive, international economist, and business-woman with broad management and international experience in business, government and non-profit organizations. She has served as Chief Operating Officer of an international investment bank, a national financial service company and of a national, grassroots, non-profit membership organization. She is presently the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United States Institute of Peace, an independent, federal agency chartered by the US Congress. She also directs the Institute's work in Bosnia.

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The Role of Women in UN Peacekeeping Missions
UNIFEM is considering of compiling an international database of highly-skilled women qualified to participate in official, high-level peace efforts, missions of preventative diplomacy, and on international mediation and negotiation teams, as a means of promoting greater participation of women in formal peace consultations, negotiations, and official missions of preventative diplomacy to regions and countries of conflict.

Osnat Lubrani, Executive Assistant to Executive Director, UNIFEM Osnat Lubrani has been the Executive Assistant to the Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) since January 1999. Previously she was the manager of a Trust Fund established at UNIFEM by the UN General Assembly in support of innovative initiatives world-wide that address all forms of gender-based violence, employing a multiplicity of strategies. In her current position, Ms. Lubrani supports the Executive Director's work to implement the mandate and the vision of the organization.

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The US Department of State and Information Exchange
The US Department of State has a network of libraries, educational exchanges, press offices, and cultural programs all over the world. How might those resources be adjusted to support the work of women who are organizing to stabilize violent regions? In particular, would media training for women be useful?

Evelyn S. Lieberman, Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy & Public Affairs, US Department of State On October 1, 1999, Evelyn S. Lieberman became the first Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the US Department of State. Mrs. Lieberman is responsible for advising and assisting the Secretary with the formation and implementation of United States public diplomacy policies and activities. These programs include international educational and cultural exchange programs.

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The USAID Agenda to Support Women Peace Builders
USAID could take a leadership role in supporting women at the peace table through its work with other donors and through its outreach to women's organizations, requesting that specific training be made available to NGOs who could set agendas and provide the foundation for funding requests that articulate the short-, medium-, and long-term needs of women emerging from conflict.

Johanna Mendelson Forman, Senior Policy Advisor for Democracy and Governance, USAID Johanna Mendelson Forman is a Senior Policy Advisor for Democracy and Governance at USAID's Bureau for Policy Planning and Coordination. For the last eighteen months she served as Social Scientist and Attorney at the World Bank's newly created Post Conflict Unit, on assignment from the United States Agency for International Development. Since 1994 she served as a Senior Advisor to the Office of Transition Initiatives, Bureau for Humanitarian Response. Her work focuses on security and development issues, with a special focus on civil-military issues, arms proliferation, internal security and peacekeeping.

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Women and the Foreign Policy Establishment
The New York-based Council on Foreign Relations is one of the most respected foreign policy establishments in the world. Looking at the US interest in fostering the role of women's groups as building blocks for civil society and democratization, how can the Council integrate the work of Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace into their efforts?

In Washington, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has a strong reputation of women peace builders for analysis and policy recommendations in troubled spots across the world. How can they bring the Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace perspective into the CSIS research agenda? Specifically, what can be done to strengthen the prestige of roles already established by women?

Jennifer Whitaker, Deputy Director, Council on Foreign Relations Jennifer Seymour Whitaker is Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she serves as Director of the Project on Women's Human Rights. The purpose of this project is to explore the ways in which the increased economic and political participation of women within their various societies and at the international level may further US international security goals. It aims to help situate the issue within the discussion of US interests for both scholars and officials looking at US interests in security and stability as usually defined, and focusing on ways in which fundamental changes for women may call those definitions into question.

Joe Montville, Director of Preventive Diplomacy Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies Before joining CSIS in 1994, Joseph Montville spent 23 years as a diplomat with posts in the Middle East and North Africa. He also worked in the State Department's Bureaus of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and Intelligence and Research, where he was Chief of the Near East Division and Director of the Office of Global Issues. Montville has held faculty appointments at Harvard and the University of Virginia Medical Schools for his work in political psychology. He defined the concept of Track 11, non-official diplomacy.

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Women Building Peace
The United Nations must put women's perspectives of peace at the heart of its agenda. International Alert wants to make this happen by mobilizing women's organizations, NGOs and governments to work in partnership for this goal. A strong international coalition can ensure that women play a central role in the negotiating of Peace Agreements led by the United Nations.

International Alert is the lead organization in the international campaign "From the Village Council to the Negotiating Table: Women Building Peace." How can these efforts be combined with Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace?

Eugenia Piza-Lopez, Head of Policy & Advocacy, International Alert Eugenia Piza-Lopez is the Policy Director for International Alert where she runs a program on security and peace building focusing on arms control, security sector reform, macro-economic policy, development and civil society addressing macro policy issues towards the UN, the EU, and the international community. She has been instrumental in the creation of international networks such as the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) and the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response (FEWER).

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Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace and the Organization Of American States
How can the OAS women's ministerial meeting, scheduled for April, be used to support Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace?

Carmen Lomellin, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission of Women, Organization of American States In her capacity as head of the Permanent Secretariat, Carmen Lomellin provides policy guidance on issues of importance to women and oversees the activities of the Commission's delegates representing the 34 democracies of the Western Hemisphere.She is a former Appointee in the Clinton Administration, where she held the positions of White House Liaison for the US Office of Personnel Management and Director of that agency's Office of International Affairs.

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Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace and the Women's Movement
The Feminist Expo 2000 for Women's Empowerment is scheduled in Baltimore, Maryland, for March 31 to April 2, 2000, with 6,000 participants expected. Should they host a session dealing with the plans and platforms of actions discussed and designed during the launch of Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace?

Cherreka Montgomery, Global Associate for Expo 2000, Feminist Majority Foundation Cherreka Montgomery is the Senior Associate for Global Outreach/Program at the Feminist Majority Foundation, located in Arlington, Virginia. She directs the Feminist Majority Foundation's campaign to contact feminist and women's rights organizations worldwide to strengthen partnerships between the US and Global Feminist/Women's Movements. The campaign is designed to promote and protect the rights of women and girls to: (1) access to and progress in education; (2) full political participation and representation; and (3) reproductive health choices and facilities. Moreover, the campaign is designed to implement the Beijing Platform of Action and the Vienna Declaration.

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Women's Studies and Peace-building
How might the Kennedy school support the work of women peacemakers, with cases, scholarships, research, fellows, cross-fertilization with other centers, connections with other Harvard schools?
What is the role of women's studies in preserving cultural diversity on the planet while we move toward more global legal frameworks?

Holly Taylor-Sargent, Senior Associate Dean For External Affairs, Harvard University, Kennedy School Of Government As Senior Associate Dean at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, she is responsible for all relationships between the Kennedy School and its major external constituencies: alumni, the Harvard community, volunteer committees, friends, donors, and the general public. In her role on the Senior Management Team of the School, she assists in the planning, development, and execution of new programs and initiatives within the priorities of the Dean.

Laura H. Roskos, Coordinator, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Laura H. Roskos, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; coordinator, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies. Radcliffe former curriculum consultant, University of Wisconsin System's Women's Studies Consortium; former professor, Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; former president of several grassroots advocacy organizations including the Wisconsin Federation for Community-Based Economic Department and the Wisconsin Coalition for Alternatives in Education.

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World YWCA: "Weeks Without Violence"
The World YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) has been promoting a program in the United States and in India called 'Weeks Without Violence." They are interested in providing model kits to be used in other regions. What will it take for these to be effective? Is this a worthwhile effort?

Jane Wolfe, President, World YWCA Jane Lee Wolfe was elected President of the World YWCA in July 1999 in Cairo, Egypt. She had served on the World YWCA Executive Committee since 1992 and was a Vice President for the four years prior to her election as President. Coming from a four-generational family rich in YWCA history, she served on the US National Board of the YWCA for twelve years and on the board of her local association in Little Rock, Arkansas, before that. She has found the World YWCA--with work in over 100 countries and a participant base of over 25 million--an effective movement for working toward an inclusive world in which freedom, justice, peace, health, and human dignity are promoted and sustained through the leadership of women.

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