... Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Group - International Studies Association ISA
After a hugely successful ISA in San Francisco for the Feminist Security Studies Group, we would like to put out a call for papers for 2009. We welcome all proposals that fall under the broad heading of Feminist Security Studies, however, we have made some general suggestions for the following panel topics: "Post"-post conflict; Revisiting peace and security; Violent women; Sex, Violence and Conflict; Theorizing Feminist Security; Engendering Development; Feminism and "Mainstream" Security Studies; and Women Anti-war Activists. If you are interested in being on an organized panel, please send a 250 word paper proposal to megan.mackenzie@ualberta.ca and swatiparashar@hotmail.com by May 10th.
You can find further information about the call in our column [Call for Papers]

... Call for Applications: 2008 Women PeaceMakers Program
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) in San Diego, California, is currently accepting applications for its Women PeaceMakers Program (WPM). The WPM program is designed for leaders from conflict-affected countries around the world who are transforming conflict and assuring gender-inclusion in post conflict recovery through in human rights advocacy and peace building efforts they lead. These are women whose stories and best practices will be shared internationally; they are women who will have a respite from the frontlines work they do.
Find all relevant information about the program on the website of the [Joan B. Kroc Institute] or in the >> PDF File

... 2008 Central European Summer School for Conflict Resolution in Salzburg, Austria
The association "GBKL-CBCR - European Institute for Community-based Conflict Resolution" invites you to their 2008 Central European Summer School for Conflict Resolution in Salzburg from August 30 until September 7, 2008. The Summer School was evolved out of the program for Community-Based Conflict Resolution - CBCR, based in Salzburg, Austria and it offers experiential learning imbedded in a comrehensive, yet well arranged conflict theory.
Read further information about this year's Summer School on the website of the [European Institute for CBCR] or in the invitation as a >> PDF File

... 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York
The 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York from 25 February to 7 March 2008. During the 52nd session the Commission will consider a priority theme (Financing for gender equality and empowerment of women) and an emerging issue (Gender perspectives on climate change). In addition, the Commission will also review implementation of the agreed conclusions (recommendations) on a theme (Women’s equal participation in conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peacebuilding) considered at an earlier session.
You can find further information and resources on the website of the [United Nations]

... Evaluation of Switzerland's Human Rights Dialogue with the People's Republic of China
In 2007 Thomas Richter, lawyer in Freiburg, and Frauke Seidensticker, deputy director of the German Institute of Human Rights in Berlin, finished an evaluation of the Switzerland's Human Rights Dialogue with the People's Republic of China. The evaluation is a summary of the detailed external evaluation of the Sino-Helvetian human rights dialogue that has already been discussed in depth with representatives of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). It examines activities in the period from autumn 2000 to summer 2006. 
Read the report as a >> PDF File

... Kampala Resolution on Women, Peace and Conflict Petition - Call for Signatures!!
You can sign the petition for the Kampala Resolution on Women, Peace and Conflict by visiting the petition's [website]

... Nairobi Declaration: Call for Signatures!!
Nairobi Declaration on Women's and Girls' Right to a Remedy and Reparation
At the International Meeting on Women's and Girls' Right to a Remedy and Reparation, held in Nairobi from 19 to 21 March 2007, women's rights advocates and activists, as well as survivors of sexual violence in situations of conflict, from Africa, Asia, Europe, Central, North and South America, issued a declaration calling for the right of women and girls to reparation and remedy. The declaration can now be signed!
Read and sign declaration [here]

... Training for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation. Experiences of the “Centre for Nonviolent Action” in the Western Balkans
This is the third and final article in the small series on training for conflict transformation and peacebuilding. In this essay, Nenad Vukosavljevic reflects on experiences and lessons learned from an insider activist's and practitioner's point of view. He looks back at 10 years of training practice of the Centre for Nonviolent Action in the Western Balkans, offering provocative thoughts on goals and methods, trainer-participant relations and dilemmas such as sustaining momentum, the risk of individual burn-out and achieving social change.
Find out more on the website of the [Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation] or read the complete article as a >> PDF File

... Women Nobel Peace Prize Recipients Pledge to become a Global Voice in Peace Advocacy
The women recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize have said that they intend to use their collective voice to advocate for a more prolific role for women in securing peace and combating violence around the globe.
Speaking at the conclusion of the first international conference of the Nobel Women's Initiative in Ireland, today (01.06.07), the Nobel Laureates said that heretofore women's work in building peace was marginalised and largely unrecognised. They said it was now their intention to leverage the prestige of the Nobel Prize to focus on violence against women, and advocate for recognition of the many ways in which women prevent, combat and survive violence...
Read the full article on the website of [Nobel Women's Initiative]

... Current news on Peace Operations
The Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) publishes a weekly overview of press releases related to peace operations around the world. Read the current overview on the website of [ZIF]