This panel explores strategies and practices of feminist peace from the perspective of international mandate holders and institutions. It queries how such a vision might be secured, not least in the contemporary political climate and in light of the current global pandemic.
The panel is chaired by Dr Keina Yoshida with speakers Jane Connors (Victims’ Rights Advocate for the UN), Yakin Ertürk (former director of UNDAW and INSTRAW) and Nahla Haidar (member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists).
This panel is part of the Visions of Feminist Peace programme, supported by an AHRC grant title A Feminist International Law of Peace and Security led by Prof Christine Chinkin and Dr Louise Arimatsu. The Visions of Feminist Peace programme is co-hosted with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
About the speakers:
Jane Connors is the Victims' Rights Advocate for the United Nations, a post at Assistant Secretary-General level, to which she was appointed in August 2017. Immediately prior to this appointment, Jane was Amnesty International’s Director of International Advocacy. From 1996 to 2015, she held increasingly responsible posts in the United Nations. She has written on United Nations human rights mechanisms, in particular human rights treaty bodies and the Human Rights Council’s special procedures, the human rights of women, and violence against women and children.
Professor Yakin Ertürk professor emeritus of sociology, undertook international consultancies on rural development projects; served as director of UNDAW and INSTRAW; held international and regional human rights monitoring mandates, including special rapporteur on violence against women. Recent publication: “Political Economy of Peace Processes and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda,” Conflict, Security and Development (2020).
Nahla Haidar is a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Nahla has over 30 years of professional experience mainly within the United Nations System, ranging from Social Development, to Relief Coordination, to Emergency Management training and capacity-building to Development Cooperation to Peace-Building to Human Rights.
Chair. Dr Keina Yoshida (@intlawninja) is a Research Officer in the Centre for Women, Peace, and Security, where she works on the AHRC funded project Feminist Approaches to the International Law of Peace and Security (FILPS) led by Professor Christine Chinkin and Dr Louise Arimatsu. Keina is researching the links between the environment, nature, sustainable development goals, the gendered causes and impacts of violence against women, and structural inequalities in the context of international legal conceptions of peace and security. She has a particular interest in CEDAW with respect to these themes and also writes and researches on cinema, feminism and law about which she wrote her PhD.
See the full Visions of Feminist Peace programme here
