International Women's Day Disarmament Seminar
At What Cost?:
Women, Wars, Weapons and Conflict Prevention
5 & 6 March 2008

Agenda | Speeches | Seminar Statement | Background on the IWD Seminar

5 March

Opening:
Tim Caughley, Director, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs

Panel: Is resolution 1325 a conflict prevention tool?
Margret Verwijk, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Felicity Hill, Vice President, WILPF
Patricia Lewis, UN Institute for Disarmament Research
Bineta Diop, Femme Africa Solidarité
Cora Weiss, President Hague Appeal for Peace
                              

Panel: Women, Weapons and Disarmament
Military Budgets Today - slides - Catalina Perdomo, SIPRI
Nuclear Weapons - Rebecca Johnson- Acronym Institute
Small Arms – slides - Rebecca Peters, IANSA
Landmines & Cluster Bombs – Tamar Gabelnick, ICBL
Disarmament Education – Kathleen Sullivan, IDEA

Lobbying ..... Dos and Don'ts

6 March

List of Participants