United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 passed unanimously on 31 October 2000. Resolution 1325 is the first resolution ever passed by the Security Council that specifically addresses the impact of war on women, and calls on member nations to recognize women's contributions to conflict resolution and creating sustainable peace.
"GENDER EQUALITY, SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENT: THE VISION AND REALITIES OF RESOLUTION 1325"
UNIFEM Peace and Security Advisor
Felicity Hill
is the Ninth Adele Ramos Salzer Lecturer
7 pm, Monday 5 April
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb College, Tulane University
Reception to follow in the atrium of the Center
Felicity Hill is a Peace and Security Adviser to the United Nations Development Fund for Women and is responsible for UNIFEM's Peace and Security Programme initiatives on enhancing women's role in early warning and preventing violent conflict. She maintains UNIFEM's web portal on women, peace and security (www.womenwarpeace.org) in order to provide targeted information to the Security Council and other actors on the impact of armed conflict on women and women's role in peace-building. Instrumental in the passage of Security Council Resolution 1325, Ms. Hill travels the world meeting and working with women working on peace and security issues on local, national, regional, and global levels. Before joining UNIFEM, she worked for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, in Geneva from 1996 -1997 monitoring the Conference on Disarmament, and then in New York from 1998-2001 as the Director of WILPF's United Nations Office.
For additional information, please contact the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women at 504 865 5238 or nccrow@tulane.edu.
BACKGROUND READING AND RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS
We hope that area educators will take advantage of the 2004 Salzer Lecture to challenge their students to consider the issue of “security” from many different perspectives. The UNIFEM website is a resource-rich space for starting these discussions.
The full text of the UNIFEM publication Women, War and Peace:
The Independent Experts’ Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women’s Role in Peace-building is available as a PDF
FROM THE NCCROW WINTER 2003/2004 NEWSLETTER
In May 2003, Beth Willinger and Crystal Kile traveled from Newcomb College Center for Research on Women to Mills College for the annual meeting of the National Council for Research on Women. The theme of the conference was “Borders, Babies, and Bombs: A Gendered Reframing of Security.” It was an intense, politically and emotionally-charged, and very thoughtful conference.
After all, we are seeing civil liberties being curtailed, national borders tightened, and militarization of all aspects of our lives on the rise - all in the name of ensuring security. By shifting the focus of security from the safety of territory and states to human security - the safety of individuals, their freedom from fear, and their social, economic, and physical well-being - and reframing security to incorporate the experiences and concerns of women and girls, their families and communities, the speakers at the “Babies, Borders, and Bombs” conference also opened for us new ways of thinking ourselves out of the global catastrophe that hangs over and colors this moment in history.
What happens if we begin seriously to ask these sorts of questions: What institutions can be held accountable for ensuring human security at local and global levels? How are private and public violence, as well as power inequities, institutionalized along lines of nation, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and ability? How can we ensure that the gendered components of human security, and women’s perspectives and voices, are represented in policy debates and public discussion?
We met Felicity Hill at the NCRW conference at Mills College and were tremendously impressed by her experience, vision, commitment, intelligence, wit, and the strength of her voice. We are very excited to be bring her to our campus.
THE VISION OF ADELE RAMOS SALZER
Adele Ramos Salzer graduated from Newcomb College in 1940 with a degree in chemistry, then worked in hospital laboratories throughout the city.
She balanced a full family life -- she and her husband raised seven children together -- with active roles in numerous community, church, and educational organizations.
Throughout her lifetime, Mrs. Salzer exhbited a love of learning and a sincere devotion to Newcomb College. She served as Newcomb Class Agent and coordinated the activities of her fifty year reunion in 1990. She initiated the Newcomb College Oral History Project in memory of *her* mother, and was a frequent and lively partcipant in activities and programs at the Center for Research on Women. Her interest in academic programs focusing on women's experiences led to the establishment of this lecture series. Her donation endowing the series has been generously strengthened through gifts in her memory from her family, friends, and classmates.
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