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Clash or Consensus? Gender and Human Security in a Globalized World
October 8-9, 2003: The conference provided a forum for women leaders and human security experts from the Global South, particularly from Muslim societies, to come together to discuss and strategize on ways to advance human security around the world. In this conference, human security was rethought from an exclusive concern with the security of the state to include a holistic concern with the security of the people. WLP's conference advanced this new vision of human security by analyzing human security issues from a gender perspective, and exploring ways to implement human security goals including conflict prevention, sustainable development, gender equity, and strong civil societies that promote democratic processes.
October 8-9, 2003
PRESENTED BY
Women's Learning Partnership
in collaboration with
The Global Fund for Women
WHEN
October 8-9, 2003
WHERE
The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Johns Hopkins University
Washington, DC
The conference provided a forum for women leaders and human security experts from the Global South, particularly from Muslim societies, to come together to discuss and strategize on ways to advance human security around the world.
Traditionally, human security has been concerned with protecting the state–-its boundaries, people, institutions, and values–-from external attacks. In a world of increasing ethnic tension, extremism, epidemics, poverty, and gender disparity, however, the goal of human security can no longer be simply the absence of conflict. It is time to rethink security from an exclusive concern with the security of the state to include a holistic concern with the security of the people.
WLP’s conference advanced the debate on the new vision of human security by (a) analyzing human security issues from a gender perspective, and (b) exploring ways to implement human security goals including conflict prevention, sustainable development, gender equity, and strong civil societies that promote democratic processes. The conference explored the following questions, focusing on the ways and means of realizing the conditions necessary for their achievement:
- How do we harness the forces of globalization in the service of human security?
- How do we prevent the spread of fundamentalisms and extremism?
- How do we develop cultures of peace and prevent conflict?
- How do we mobilize policy makers to prioritize health and education as indispensable to national and international security?
- How do we strengthen democratic governance and encourage effective leadership?
- How do we build grassroots and international alliances to ensure sustainable development?
- How do we use universal human rights principles to empower people to make their own cultural choices?
Panel discussions and strategy sessions provided an opportunity for participants to identify the conditions needed under which citizens can live in safety, peace and dignity, exercise their fundamental right to health, education and well-being, exert the freedom to choose, and participate fully in governance.
WLP will continue to work with individuals and NGOs to develop strategies and mobilize resources to help implement the UN Commission on Human Security's report, Human Security Now: Protecting and Empowering People. The report, submitted to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on May 1, 2003, defines human security as protecting the vital core of all human lives in ways that enhance human freedoms and human fulfillment and recommends a number of concrete areas and approaches to enhance human security. Read a summary of the report in Arabic, English, or Persian.
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Clash or Consensus? Gender and Human Security in a Globalized World : Program
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