Missing Peace Global Symposium on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Taking Action Together with Survivors, Policymakers, Practitioners and Scholars
From past conflicts in Vietnam and Bosnia and Herzegovina to today’s conflicts in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia and Myanmar, state and nonstate actors have used sexual violence to intimidate and terrorize populations. What is missing from policy, research and practice to deter conflict-related sexual violence, mitigate ongoing harms, and heal from the intergenerational impacts? What are the implications for peace and global security when action falls short? These are among the questions at the forefront of the Missing Peace Initiative.
Join USIP, the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Washington University in St. Louis, and Women in International Security via livestream for the plenary sessions of the 10th anniversary Missing Peace Global Symposium. This symposium will bring together leading researchers from diverse disciplines, survivors of different conflicts, practitioners, and policymakers to advance a multi-pronged approach to ending the atrocity of conflict-related sexual violence.
Conflict-related sexual violence aims to dehumanize survivors through calculated acts of cruelty to render survivors and their communities powerless. Survivor-centered approaches to policy, programming and research are expanding, yet there is a need for a clearer understanding of what a survivor-centered approach to addressing conflict-related sexual violence means and how to implement it.
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Video Remarks:
Duchess of Edinburgh Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones, champion of Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Panel Discussion:
Artemis Akbary, Founder and Executive Director, Afghanistan LGBTIQ+ Organization
Lejla Damon, Member, Forgotten Children of War Association, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jayne Flemming, Director, International Refugee Program, Reed Smith LLP
Nadine Tunasi, Coordinator, Survivor Speak Out, Freedom from Torture and Survivor Champion, U.K. Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative
Kolbassia Haoussou, Director, Survivor Empowerment, Freedom from Torture and Survivor Champion, U.K. Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative
Kim Thuy Seelinger, Special Advisor on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, International Criminal Court and Research Associate Professor, Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration, Washington University in St. Louis
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