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BULLETINMay - June 2010

Welcome to the WLPS Bulletin. A bi-mo

round up of all that is happening in

Greater Horn of Africa, plus national

international news and events, in relatio

women, peace and security.

Photo courtesy of Walte

ntents

This E-Bulletin is a collaborative work between the Institute of Security Studies, Club de Madrid and Isis Womens International Cross Cultural Exchan

The Women Leadership for Peace and Security in the Greater Horn of Africa project is supported by the governments of Germany,

Norway, Belgium and Iceland and the Hunt Alternatives Fund

rn of Africa News - 1

gional News - 2

ernational News - 2

ws: Not Afraid to do the Job - 3

otlight:- Taking Shelter in State House - 4 - 5

Spotlight:- Women as Agents of Change - 6

The World is Calling - 7

Look Whos Talking: Online forums - 8

About the Project - 9


2/11

olence, fear andnfusion: welcome

the Horn of Africa

udan

DAN: Unsettledospects fornglei State

arfur death toll risestwo-year high indan

dans SPLM & NCPgn MOU on post-ferendumrangements

danese parliamentdorses members offerendum body

undreds of traditionaladers discuss insecurityLakes state

onflict Resolutionorkshop in West Darfur

romoting Peace Throughe Arts

Gender-Based ViolenceWorkshop for ZalingeiLaw Enforcement Ofcers

Somalia

SOMALIA: WhatSomaliland voterswant

Somaliland appeal to votedespite al-Shabab threat

Fighting Kills 5 inPuntland

Uganda

Karamoja Womenfor Peace BuildingNetworkingmeeting kicks o

South Sudan army voto clear LRA rebels

Kwoyelo for War Crim

Uganda: Fresh Conce

About Women in Capt

Ethiopia

Ethiopia in absoluteprogress to meet MDGstudy

Eritrea / Djibouti

Ban Welcomes DealBetween Eritrea andDjibouti to Resolve BoConflict

Salva Kiir, President of Southern Sudan, signed a

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the

National Congress Party (NCP) on a roadmap for

issues of post referendum arrangements on 27th

June, 2010.
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3/11

gypt invites Sudanese partners for talksn post-referendum relations

frica: Annual Conference on Women inolitical Leadership in Africa

enyan Women Look to the Hague forstice

ALAWI: Changing the Face of Politics

omen Demand Answers and Action

om ICC

Door to Political Ofce Opens for

Senegalese Women

ZIMBABWE: A Chance for Women's Vo

to be Heard?

ANGOLA: Changing More than Policie

Womens empowerment key tocontinents progress, says Annan

ulia Gillard Joins a list of Female

Women World Leaders

inland picks new female prime

minister Mari Kiviniemi

lovak centre-right asked to form

oalition. President Ivan Gasparovic

as now asked centre-right leader

veta Radicova to form a coalition by 8

uly.

News

Julia Gillard, the 27th Australian prime

minister, is the first female prime

minister in the countrys history.
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4/11

ular psychology would have it that women have the

opoly over men on talk. Apparently, women like

ning and talking more, and are often better at it.

mmunications - the soft side - is a woman's thing.

ny, then, that one of the most important professions in

international arena - the business of ending armed

flict through helping people talk their way to peace

er than battling bloodily to the death - is almost

pletely devoid of women.

re are a whole range of professional mediators, who

with family disputes, corporate wrangles, traditional

rights issues and more, whose ranks are filled with

men. The official conflict mediators are a slightly

erent and rarer breed. Drawn from the ranks of ex-

omats and high level government officials, they are

oyed by organisations such as the UN, the EU, peace-

moting governments such as Norway and Switzerland,tiny number of conflict resolution institutions such as

Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue or the

mer Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari's Crisis

nagement Initiative.

all those bodies, not a single one bar the UN has a

man leading their conflict mediation teams; but the UN

nothing to be proud of. The security council passed a

lution in October 2000 (number 1325 on women,

ce and security) which called for greater involvement of

men at all levels of decision-making in peacemaking. It

one of the most widely accepted and praised

lutions in the security council's history. But five years

r, of 61 UN senior officials in direct peacemaking roles,

e are still only four women. Hardly impressive.

obviously a problem for equality of representation, but

is it a problem for peace? Excluding women from the

negotiating process sells peace processes short. Th

few women who have participated in formal

processes show us why. Perhaps the example clo

home is that of the Northern Ireland Women's Coa

whose Monica McWilliams and Pearl Sagar brok

mould of Northern Ireland politics by getting elec

delegates to the talks that led to the Good

agreement. They made sure that issues fundamen

achieving a lasting peace, but often ignored by men

as education, social service provision, justice and h

rights made it onto the agenda. They were not put off

aggressively male political culture.

In the end, as current woman mediators Heidi Tagl

Carolyn McAskie (for the UN in Georgia and Brespectively), and Betty Bigombe (between

government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance A

have proven, the skills, experience and personality

individual, combined in some cases with the clout

institution they represent, are what counts. Their g

might even be an advantage in what can be highly

and even aggressive encounters.

The high-level, experienced women are there and t

not afraid to do the job. But resolutions have com

gone, rosters have been made and ignored, and nothi

really changed. What is the root of the problem

systems of appointment are hardly transparent, be

best adhoc, and at worst subject to the most pern

aspects of institutional politics and cronyism.

It's time for the UN, its member states and the exc

ranks of their collaborators in conflict resolution to l

to their promises, set an example, and give peace thchance not just to get made, but to stick. For every

That means targeted mentoring of women,

transparent selection and appointment procedures, an

a while at least, some kind of affirmative action or po

discrimination. We share the problem. Let's sha

solution too.

This article was originally published by the Guardian in 2006. A

Potter is a project manager at the Centre for Humanitarian Dial

Geneva.

ot afraid to do the jobxcluding women from the work of

egotiating and mediation is sellingeace processes short


5/11Womens Leadership for Peace and Security in the Greater Horn of Africa

aking Shelter in State House

adra Osman Ismail collected tyre tubes, empty sacks,

clothes and boxes, then sat down to stitch together the

roof of her shelter in Hargeisa, capital of Somalias

declared republic of Somaliland. This is the only

e we have known for the past five years," she said,

ng that the new roof would be a great improvement.

ail and her family are among 5,500 internally displaced

ilies living in a crowded settlement known as State

se, site of the regions destroyed, unused official

dence. It is one of six main IDP settlements in Hargeisa.

ny of the IDPs from south-central Somalia (considered

he government of Somaliland to be refugees) lack clan

port, according to Abib Ahmed Hirsi, programme

cer for Comprehensive Communi ty-Based

abilitation in Somaliland (CCBRS), a local NGO.

elihood support and help with relocation are among the

lenges facing the IDPs. Somaliland is a separate

ntry [from Somalia]; when those displaced by violence

outh- central Somalia get here, they are vulnerable and

e no support, Hirsi said. If only these people could be

tegrated into the community. Their situation is really

ic, they cannot go back home because violence and

curity persists. We continue to see children arriving

e [without parents] and widows who have to fend for

r children all alone.

viving on less than US$1 a day, most of the IDPs

age in casual labour and petty trade. Ismails family

ives on what the husband makes collecting and selling

firewood or sticks used for fencing while sh

vegetables, on commission, for other traders. On

day, we earn about 7,000 Somaliland shillings [abou

have to make it stretch but it is not easy. Most day

make Anjeera [a sort of pancake] and make it la

dinner, Ismail said. Initially displaced by civil stri

Ethiopia, Ismails family lived as refugees unt

returned to Hargeisa five years ago but could not re

their home due to drought. The government ha

promising to give us land but this has not ha

imagine sharing one latrine with eight other families

24 people]!

Protecting the vulnerable

CCBRS, a local partner for the UN Refugee Agency,

UNHCR, as well as other UN agencies, runs program

on child protection, prevention and response services

to sexual and gender- based violence (SGBV),

Khadra Osmal Ismail pieces together boxes, rubber a

cloth material for the roof of her house at the State Hou

IDP settlement in Hargeisa, SomalilandPhoto & words Jane Some



tecting the vulnerable

BRS, a local partner for the UN Refugee Agency,

HCR, as well as other UN agencies, runs programmes

child protection, prevention and response services

ked to sexual and gender- based violence (SGBV),

stance to survivors of female genital mutilation/

ing, rape and SGBV. The NGO has the support of the

Childrens Fund (UNICEF) for the child protection

vices and UNHCR for SGBV. On SGBV, Hirsi said as

n as we receive information regarding an incident, our

ff go there and take the survivor to the nearest police

ion to record a statement, then to the hospital for

atment and medical evaluation. We also provide

nselling and often refer the survivors to legal aid

vices.

egal clinic under the Faculty of Law at the University

Hargeisa takes over cases referred by CCBRS and other

GOs. Mohamed Jama, director of the clinic, told IRIN:

e provide free legal aid to refugees, asylum seekers,

Ps, migrants, people living with HIV/AIDS, victims of

man trafficking and specific human rights violations

h as illegal detention. The majority of our clients are

men, so we have female lawyers in the unit; we hold

ular meetings with settlement elders and we organize

rkshops to sensitize them against human rights

lations and sexual and gender-based violence. Jama

d the legal unit made huge strides in 2009, establishing

esence in all the IDP settlements in the city, which we

t weekly to provide legal aid right where the IDPs are

ead of them coming here to the university.

According to UNHCR, Somaliland has an estim

67,000 IDPs but others put the number at more

75,000. Aid workers say the majority of IDP

Somaliland are former refugees who lived in Ethiopi

Djibouti. Others left their homes due to drought, po

and lack of opportunities.

Long-term solution

Abdoulaye Barry, UNHCR head of the Hargeisa

office, said finding a long-term solution for the ID

Somaliland was being complicated by a lack of ade

funding and the temporary nature of some o

settlements - specifically State House and Stadium, a

as smaller IDP pockets around the city. The govern

has indicated the IDPs have to be relocated. Howev

timeframe has been given for such a move. A

moment, some of the biggest IDP settlements [State H

and Stadium] in Hargeisa are temporary, UN age

cannot put up permanent infrastructure as the IDP

lose out any time, Barry said. Anwar Mohamed

director-general of the Ministry of Resettle

Rehabilitation and Reintegration, told IRIN on 16

that the government had a plan to resettle the IDPs

was on hold until after presidential elections - sche

for 26 June. "We will identify the proper land to re

them and we will relocate all the displaced afte

elections," Ige said.

This article appears as featured on the IRIN Humani

News and Analysis website:

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=8950

aking Shelter in State House - Continued
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one of the key needs women

have is for leadership training

programs that enable them to be

more efective candidates from

national to local levels of elected

oce. Moreover, because of

obstacles to political power,

women need stronger and

broader networks and alliances toenhance the kind of participation

that will enable them to

surmount barriers.

Women must not only be more

engaged in governance, they

must also be at the table in

peacemaking, peace

negotiations, and work on post-

conflict reconstruction. We know

that without the voices of women

contributing to the delicate

process of conflict resolution,

peace is less likely to take root.

We have seen, from Guatemala to

Northern Ireland to Liberia to

Afghanistan, that women can be

powerful peacemakers, willing to

reach across deep divides to find

common ground.

Women as Agents of

Change

Advancing the Rolef Women in Politicsnd Civil Societycerpts oftestimony made by Ambassador-at-Large for

obal Women Issues, Melanne Verveer, before the

bcommittee on International Organizations, Human

ghts and Oversight of the House Committee on Foreign

fairs. Washington DC (June 9th, 2010)United States Ambassador-at-large for

Global Women Issues, Melanne Verveer
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he Human Rights Advocates Program is designed for lawyers, journalists, doctors,

eachers, social workers, community organizers, and other human rights activists

working with NGOs on issues including sexual and gender-based violence,

omestic violence, minority rights, LGBT rights, labor rights, migration, health,

ocial exclusion, environmental justice, and corporate social accountability.

articipants are selected on the basis of their previous work experience in human

ghts, commitment to the human rights field, and demonstrated ability to pursue

raduate-level studies. Advocates must work at the grassroots level. Fluency in

nglish is required. Preference is given to those who have not previously had

pportunities to travel and study internationally.

his extremely competitive Program will admit approximately eight participants.

he application is available online at http://hrcolumbia.org/hrap/apply/. This web-ased format is the only version of the 2011 application.

Completed applications are due by Friday, November 19, 2010.

or further information, please refer to the website at: http://hrcolumbia.org/hrap/

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JOIN THE CONVERSATION!

Womens Leadership for Peace and Security in the Greater Horn of Africa

The Economist hosted a live online debate

on Somalia entitled: Should foreigners

intervene?

The debate featured expert insight from

Ahmedou Ould-Abdal lah , Specia l

Representative of the UN Secretary-General

for Somalia

Read the debate here.

The Economist on Somalia

UN-INSTRAW is hosting a three week

Virtual Discussion from Monday June 28

July 19, 2010 on Gender and

Di sa r m am en t , Dem o b i l i z a t i o n &

Reintegration - Reintegrating Female Ex-

Combatants: Good practices and lessonslearned in the disarmament, demobilization

and reintegration of women and girls.

Register here.

For Additional Information: Please review

the Concept Note, Gender & DDR

Bibliography, and GPS Guide to OnlineVirtual Discussions.

UN-INSTRAW

Gender and DDRThe United Nations Department of Economic

and Social Affairs (DESA) is launching the

first of a series of television debates, "Face to

Face". On 30 June 2010, DESA, the United

Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and

Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will gather

experts at United Nations Headquarters in

New York to discuss the theme, "Women's

empowerment, development cooperation and

culture".

UN Television Debate: "Face to Face"

Please ask your questions here

The debate will be webcast live here

See the flyer

UN Television Debate

Face to Face
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mportant progress has been

ade in terms of the number of

omen elected and appointed tofce around the world. However,

omen continue to face

gnificant structural

sadvantages in politics and

ecision-making worldwide.

owhere is the void of womens

presentation more noticeable

nd unacceptable than in matters

f peace and security. The reason

simple: while women continue experience the full impact of

olent conflict as civilians and

ombatants and too often as

rgets of extreme forms of

olence they are still generally

xcluded from the decision-

aking processes that ignite

ars and put an end to

ostilities.

The Women Leadership for Peace

and Security in the Greater Horn

of Africa project, in collaboration

with the Club De Madrid, Isis

Women International Cross

Cultural Exchange (Isis WICCE)

and Institute of Security Studies

(ISS), seeks to maximise the

participation and contribution of

women in national and regional

peace and security decision-

making and political dialogue in

the Greater Horn of Africa.

Within the respective frameworks

of UN Security Council

Resolutions 1325 and 1820

calling, respectively, for womens

equal participation in decisions

concerning peace and war, and

for the prevention of the

systematic use of sexual violence

in conflicts as a tactic of warfare,

the project works directly with

women leaders and womensgroups in the region to promote

interaction and dialogue with

national and regional decision-

making structures and

mechanisms for impact on policy

formation, government spending

and security sector reform.

Calling on high-level poli

expertise to provide knowle

and capacity-building

strategic leadership advice,

project will strengthen womleadership for peace

dialogue and, in the medi

term, empower women

improve human rights

security in the Horn of Africa.

The specific objectives of

project are to:

(1)Learn security flue

building womens knowle

of and capacity to add

peace and security issues.

(2) Secure a seat at the decis

making table: advan

womens participation in

influence on security po

and practice.

The projects scope co

Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, Su

and Uganda and specific

targets 40 Women Leaders f

the region, as well as

leadership at the country le

current presidents, pr

ministers and parliamentarian

omen Peace and Security in Context About the project:

Womens Leadership for Peace and Security in the Greater Horn of Africa


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Project Partner Sites:

Club De Madrid

www.clubmadrid.org

Isis WICCE

www.isis.or.ug

Institute of Security Studies

www.iss.co.za

iKnow Politics

www.iknowpolitics.org

Useful Sites:

BBC News

www.news.bbc.co.uk

Sudan Tribune

www.sudantirbune.com

Pambazuka News

www.pambazuka.org

IRINwww.irinnews.org

Bartamaha News

www.bartamha.com

Photo Credits:

Front Page: Walter Astr

Pg 1: Sudan Tribune

Pg 2: BBC News

Pg. 4: IRIN

Back Page: Walter Astr
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