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WACUNA: Talk: Building peace in the minds of women and men - global values (after AGM)

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Event date
Event location International Maritime Organisation
4 Albert Embankment
London
gb

All are invited to a short Annual General Meeting followed by a panel of speakers: Lesley Abdela MBE, Dan Wheatley and Laurel Hart.

Lesley Abdela MBE will address the need to bring greater pressure for women to be setting the agenda in development, policy, conflict prevention and resolution, and for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. Lesley is an expert and campaigner on women’s rights and representation – and much more. A journalist, broadcaster, and public speaker (she founded the all-party 300 GROUP Campaign for women in politics), she has worked as an expert adviser in 50 different countries including post-conflict countries: Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and as Senior Gender Advisor to UN Agencies in Nepal in 2007/8. Currently, Lesley is a member of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) Gender Help-Desk team – providing advice for mainstreaming gender into international development cooperation. She is also a member of the EU Gender Facility for Neighbourhood South (MENA region), providing advice to EC staff working in Middle East and North Africa. Lesley is also a member of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Gender Advisory Services Expert Panel, and the Senior Partner in the Shevolution consultancy.

Dan Wheatley is the Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology at Arcadia University and Syracuse University, and also serves with the Baha'i Office of Public Affairs. 

Laurel Hart, Outreach Assistant at UNA-UK, will talk about UNA-UK's new campaign asking what people “Stand for”, and exploring whether British values are indeed global values. UNA-UK aims to improve the effectiveness of the UN, one of the main purposes of which is to resolve conflicts and build peace. Laurel is a history graduate from the University of Bristol with academic and professional expertise in human rights, international relations and genocide-related issues; experienced in outreach, project management and research. She has interned at UN OCHA, supporting preparations for the International Humanitarian Law Roundtable at the UN’s first Humanitarian Summit, and for Amnesty International in human rights education. She is a regional board member for Remembering Srebrenica and Tell MAMA, combating intolerance and hatred in society. Laurel has also volunteered with humanitarian relief in Calais and improving agricultural sustainability in schools in Lesotho.

Please register before Monday 7 November 2016, as space is limited, and send the attendance slip below, as soon as possible, to Mrs Rubi Bhattacharyya, as below.

Event contact details

Contact: Rubi Bhattacharyya
Tel: 020 8959 2805 (after 6 pm)