PNG participates in the women and conflict transformation in Asia,the Pacific, and United States
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Josephine Smare, 20/7/08
Small Enterprise Development Project Coordinator with the Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA) PNG will depart Port Moresby today (July 18) to attend an East West Center Program in Honolulu, Hawaii. She will participate in the “Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Program, a leadership development program for women from the United States and the Asia Pacific region. In a region experiencing a wide range of low-and high-intensity conflicts the assertion that conflict is unavoidable certainly rings true. The real choice then, lies in how to confront, analyse, and respond to conflict in a way that moves society forward toward positive change. The importance of women’s participation in peace-building, security decision-making, and conflict transformation, has been most clearly put forth in UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in the year 2000: “stressing the importance of their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security, and the need to increase their role in decision-making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution.”
