PeaceRep

PeaceFem - Peace in Your Hands
2020-09-08 14:15 - 15:15 UTC | Online
Join PSRP for a presentation on the PeaceFem app and how PeaceTech could support the Women, Peace and Security agenda. We will be discussing how women use PeaceTech/technologies for peacebuilding, how participants could use PeaceFem in their work, and what challenges there are with using PeaceTech.
This event is part of the Virtual Torino Forum for Sustaining Peace, hosted by United Nations System Staff College. Originally envisaged as a high-level event at the UN campus in Turin, Italy, the 2020 Torino Forum is leveraging innovation and technology to bring the Women, Peace and Security community together with the Youth, Peace and Security community for a series of virtual discussions and exchanges. The event will explore the status of the agendas of these respective communities in an open exchange with the wider peacebuilding community.
Speakers:
Fiona Knäussel, Political Settlements Research Programme, University of Edinburgh
Sarah Brun, UN Women
Christine Bell, Political Settlements Research Programme, University of Edinburgh
Laura Wise, Political Settlements Research Programme, University of Edinburgh
Date and time:
8th September CEST 15:15 -16:15 (14:15 – 15:15 BST/UK time)
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Can PeaceTech end conflict during Covid-19?
2020-08-30 16:00 - 17:00
Can PeaceTech end conflict during Covid-19? Part of the Edinburgh University Women in STEM Connect series.
Our panelists will be discussing how their tools support those brokering peace, and the challenges and opportunities the pandemic presents. Register now.

The Covid-19 pandemic is having disproportionate impacts on people in countries already affected by conflict, and travel restrictions both within and between countries have disrupted in-person mediation processes that have historically relied on bringing people together. Since March 2020, those working in the nascent field of PeaceTech (technological tools that support peacebuilding) have suddenly found their services more in demand than ever, as peacebuilders and their supports shift to online ways of working, often in communities where internet accessibility is not always guaranteed.
In this talk, Professor Christine Bell, Laura Wise, and Fiona Knäussel will illustrate how the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) has developed a suite of PeaceTech tools to support those brokering peace, and explain how these have come into their own during the Covid-19 pandemic and they hope, beyond. They will discuss the opportunities and challenges of developing technological responses to facilitate conflict resolution, and how PeaceTech could assist women’s meaningful inclusion in peace processes.
This event will be held online. By signing up for a ticket on Eventbrite, you will receive a Zoom joining link by email a day or two before the event.
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Making inclusive peacemaking a reality: virtual launch of the PeaceFem mobile app
2020-06-30 13:00 - 14:30
Join UN Women, University of Edinburgh’s Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP), Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre, and Inclusive Peace to celebrate the launch of the new PeaceFem mobile app.
Tuesday 30 June 2020, 1:00-2:30pm London / 3:00-4:30pm Beirut / 8:00-9:30am New York City

A contribution to the growing field of peace tech that utilizes technology to support peace and security, the new PeaceFem app brings together data on women and peacemaking in one easy-to-use app in English and Arabic.
The launch seminar will be an opportunity for participants to discover the app and its functions, and to discuss peacemaking and technology as a tool for inclusivity. The webinar will be held via Zoom in English and Arabic with simultaneous translation. Register now.
Speakers include:

Barney Afako, Judge, Lawyer and Mediation Expert
Miriam Colonel Ferrer, Senior Mediation Advisor on Process Design, Gender and Inclusion
Rasha Jarhum, Co-Founder and Director of the Peace Track Initiative
Christine Bell, Director, Political Settlements Research Programme
Jacqui True, Director, Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre
Moez Doraid, Regional Director a.i., UN Women Regional Office for Arab States
Thania Paffenholz, Executive Director, Inclusive Peace

Registration:
Register now.
This seminar is free and open to all. Booking is essential. Registered participants will be emailed a link to the Zoom webinar before the event.

OxPeace Conference 2020
2020-05-16
OXPEACE 2020 CONFERENCE: WOMEN, PEACE & SECURITY

16 May 2020 – online

The UN Resolution 1325 (2000) was a key moment for global peace. The world for the first time recognised the key role of women in peace and the need for their equal participation in conflict resolution, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, humanitarian response and in post-conflict reconstruction. This landmark resolution also acknowledged the different experience of war for women.
​Marking the 20th anniversary of a path-breaking resolution, this year’s conference is dedicated to the scholarship, policy and practice of women’s inclusion in peacebuilding, peacekeeping and security as well as discussions about gender-based violence and the role of grassroots actors and organisations. Providing a discussion between practitioners, policymakers and academics, OxPeace2020 conference will reflect upon key achievements and failures in the inclusion of women in peace in the past two decades.

The event will be co-hosted by Tim Epple of the Political Settlements Research Programme, and speakers include the PSRP’s Dr Kevin McNicholl and Laura Wise. For the full speaker lineup, visit the conference website.
​Attending the online conference is free. Register now.
