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Who's Making Policy - What Difference Does It Make |
International Conference in San Diego, October 18 - 20, 2006
Gitti Hentschel, executive director of the Feminist Institute, participated as a panelist at the conference. Her contribution as well as a short overview of the conference can be found on this page. The contribution is the result of the Feminist Institute's years of work and expertise regarding peace and security issues from a feminist perspective.
An International Conference on Gender-Inclusive Decision Making for Peace with Justice
"In Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific - literally around the world - new voices are speaking out; new people are being heard. They offer crucial information to peacemaking and peacebuilding processes. Many coming forward are women, too often born into a struggle for survival and human dignity. These women do not wear the conventional straight jackets of hate, arrogance, exclusion, greed, and dominance. Men, who want the world and its human community to have a greater chance of survival, join them. Together, these women and men know it takes impassioned, compassionate, inclusive leaders from all sectors of human society reaching the tables where policies are made to create sustainable peace. This conference presents the challenges to, and the promises of, joining those tables and working together in governance, military and security arenas, faith traditions, and economic frontiers so the human family may have a lasting peace - a peace where it is not necessary to repeat the violence of the past, a peace with justice. This is a working conference where voices of experience and hope must find the means and vision to take the next steps to sustainable peace."
- from the conference's program
