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"Panel Discussion at the Irish mission on the Women's Situation Room in Senegal, 1st November 2012. l-r Ambassador Anne Anderson; Bineta Diop, President of Femmes Africa Solidarité; Elisabeth Rehn, former Finnish Minister for Defence; and Letty Chiwara, Head of UN Women’s Africa Division".
Summary
Women’s Civil Society Organisations in Early Warning & Preventing Conflict: Panel Discussion on the Women’s Situation Room in Senegal Hosted by the Permanent Mission of Ireland, the Permanent Mission of Finland, and Femmes Africa Solidarité 1st November 2012
The Women’s Situation Room (WSR) and its success in preventing violence during the Senegalese elections at the start of this year was the subject of a panel discussion held at the Permanent Mission of Ireland.
Bineta Diop, the founder and President of Femmes Africa Solidarité, described how establishing the situation room had mobilised a critical mass of women, including those within political parties, and how, in partnership with other groups such as young people, these women were able to pressure the two main parties in conflict while foregrounding the women’s agenda. Letty Chiwara, Head of UN Women’s Africa Division, spoke about the importance of replicating successes such as the Women’s Situation Room and of learning and applying lessons identified from analysing election violence.
Elisabeth Rehn, former Finnish Minister for Defence and international expert in women, peace and security issues, moderated a discussion that saw diverse questions arising, including on how the WSR stayed apolitical and neutral; how to use and sustain the WSR network during non-election periods; and whether the UN should reconsider its policy of not advocating quota systems for female politicians.
The Permanent Representative of Ireland, Ambassador Anne Anderson, described the WSR as a great example of a grassroots initiative to empower women peace builders to proactively get involved in preventing conflict. Concluding the discussion, Ambassador Anderson emphasised the need to form alliances between women’s groups and others, such as young people, in order to reinforce and amplify each other’s voices. It was also critical to document and disseminate, as UN Women does, individual initiatives in different countries to transform single, anecdotal experiences into mainstream policy at the AU, the UN and elsewhere
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