women peace and security

Libya:Today we’re talking with Hajer Sharief , Peace & Human Rights defender,  Co-founder of Together We Build It. She focuses particularly on youth peace and security and women peace and security agendas. 

Aya and Hajer talk about demand 9 of B+25 manifesto on Silencing the Guns and how young women can be part of decision making  in peace and security frameworks, peace talks and negotiations. 

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Impact Talk from Oxfam Novib

Power of Citizens’ Voices Series: Integrating Women into the Afghan National Police Force

This is the second of four episodes in the Power of Citizens’ Voices series, “Integrating Women into the Afghan National Police Force”. In this series we talk with civil society leaders, activists and colleagues from around the world about how raising the voices of citizens drives impact on critical topics like conflict and security, the right to food, and securing the financing needed for development. 

While women still only make up a small percentage of the Afghan police, their total number has risen from just 164 women in 2005 to 4070 in 2020. Why it is so important for Afghan women to safely join the police force? How does this relate to citizens’ voice? And what support did  these brave women receive? In this episode of the Power of Citizens’ Voices series, we discover how Oxfam and partners have supported citizens to raise their voices within a context of conflict and fragility, focusing on the safe integration of women in the Afghan police. Wazhma Frogh (Founding Director, Women and Peace Studies Organization) and Jorrit Kamminga (Policy Lead Inclusive Peace & Security, Oxfam Novib) join us to discuss. 

Hosts: Lisanne Hekman and Patrick Guyer

Editing and sound design: Sound Seekers

Artwork: Anouk Klinkers

Links to organizations and publications referenced in this episode:
Organizations:

• Women and Peace Studies Organization – official website 
• Oxfam Novib – official website 

 Publications: 

• A Tale of Two Pragmatisms: How to increase the meaningful participation of women in Afghanistan’s police force (2020) – Oxfam Discussion Paper
• Beating the Drum (2020) - book (see pp. 95 – 103)
• Stronger Together for Women in the Afghan police (2020) - report
• Zahra: A Policewoman in Afghanistan (2020) - comic book

Keywords: Women, police, security sector reform, conflict, Afghanistan, Women Peace and Security, NAP1325 

In this keynote address, Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy discusses the evolution of the women, peace and security agenda, from representation and participation of women in peace processes, transformative justice and women combatants to livelihoods and empowerment of women in the post-conflict era and the role women play, and can play, in the prevention of conflict. Drawing on her personal experiences in the field, she explores the dilemmas and day-to-day lived realities of women in conflict and post-conflict theatres of war, and points to some of the challenges that lie ahead for the women, peace and security agenda in the international community.

Keynote speaker:
Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy, lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate

Chair:
Dr Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security