3. Women PeaceMakers Conference

International resolutions and agreements call for women to be at all policymaking tables. This is an international working conference on the shaping of peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding policies when women are more engaged. Experts will present signs of influence on policy direction as women and men work jointly on peace and human security issues. Challenges to women's inclusion in, and within, decision-making bodies in multiple spheres of power will be exposed. Delegates and speakers will explore positive outcomes, as well as inherent roadblocks, in efforts to hold governments, political parties, peacekeepers, armed forces, corporations, religious institutions and civil society accountable for progress in incorporating women as essential partners and voices in peace negotiations, demobilization and disarmament, reconciliation, reconstruction and development, and creation of new constitutions.<br> <br> This will be the third Women PeaceMakers Conference at the IPJ, supported by funding from the Fred J. Hansen Foundation. It builds on the 2004 "Promoting Women's Equal Participation in Peace & Security Processes: Operationalizing UN Security Council Resolution 1325" and the 2005 "Global Women's Court of Accountability, Public Hearing on Gross Violations of Women's Human Rights in Conflict and the Power of International Instruments to Address Gender-based Crimes." With the 2006 IPJ Women PeaceMakers in residence and colleagues from the front lines of conflict transformation around the world, we trust this program will open wider the doors to cross-sector partnerships and deeper understanding of the importance of peace with justice that includes women and men working together.<br>