International Women Leaders Global Security Summit

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International Women Leaders Global Security
Summit

• November 15-17, 2007
• New York, New York

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A project of
In partnership with
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The Essential Leadership of Women

• Electing and appointing women into positions of
  leadership is essential to changing the face of
  leadership.
• Women leaders represent experience from
  nontraditional paths of power.

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Key Summit Themes

• Real security means utilizing all available
  resources.
• Real security means strengthening existing
  mechanisms of accountability.
• Womens empowerment leads to increased security
  for all.
• Human and state security must be integrated in
  order to achieve a more secure world.

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Existing Tools Maintaining International Peace
Security

• United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
  Discrimination Against Women
• The Responsibility to Protect
• International Humanitarian Law (e.g., the Geneva
  Conventions)

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Maintaining International Peace Security

• The United Nations
• The World Bank/IMF
• NATO
• The European Union
• The African Union
• The Organization of American States
• The Association of Southeast Asian Nations

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Empowering WomenAchieving Lasting Peace and
Security

• The empowerment of women will lead to increased
  security for all.
• Eliminating social, cultural, political and
  economic discrimination against women is a
  prerequisite for sustainable security.
• Millions of women and girls confront threats
  daily to their security in both the public and
  private sphere.

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Human State Security

• States must protect not only their borders, but
  also their people.

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Security ThreatsWhere Women Leaders Can Make a
Big Impact

• Climate Change
• Responsibility to Protect
• Economics of Insecurity
• Preventing Terrorism(s)

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Summit Theme 1Climate Change

• Climate change is a major challenge to the
  security and survival of humankind in the 21st
  century.
• Climate change could exacerbate existing
  environmental crises, such as drought, water
  scarcity, conflicts over land and floods, and may
  also trigger massive migrations.
• Climate change disproportionately affects those
  already living precarious lives.

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Decreasing the Impact of Climate
ChangeContributions of Summit Participants

• Increase the number of women in leadership
  positions and gain additional support for
  infrastructure building and creative strategies
  to overcome negative environmental impact.
• Integrate human, gender and environmental
  security approaches.

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Summit Theme 2 The Responsibility to Protect

• New international norm
• Referred to as R2P
• Encompasses to states obligations toward their
  populations and all populations at risk of
  genocide or large-scale atrocities

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Enforcing the NormContributions of Summit
Participants

• Continue raising awareness of the
  disproportionate impact of conflict on women and
  girls.
• Increase R2P champions worldwide

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Summit Theme 3 Economics of Insecurity

• Half the world's population lives on less than 2
  a day.
• 1.8 billion of these people live on less than 1
  a day.
• 70 percent of those 1.8 billion are women.
• 340 million women around the world are not
  expected to survive to age 40.
• 35,000 children die each day of preventable
  causes.
• One-fifth of the worlds people experience severe
  poverty and an additional half live in a chronic
  state of poverty and daily insecurity

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Reducing theImpact of InsecurityContributions
of Summit Participants

• Articulate alternative policy visions
• Play strategic roles in developing strategies and
  mechanisms needed to move beyond the Millennium
  Development Goals (MDGs) and pro-poor economic
  reforms

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Summit Theme 4 Preventing Terrorism(s)

• Social, political and economic disenfranchisement
  may be exacerbated by globalization.
• The prevailing approach to counter-terrorism has
  produced heightened political tensions within and
  across societies, has renewed and perpetuated
  armed conflict and has contributed to widespread
  human suffering.

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TransformingPerceptions, Priorities and
AlliancesContributions of Summit Participants

• Womens leadership should be mobilized to help
  ensure a more holistic and inclusive approach to
  address the threats of terrorism.

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Outcomes Commitments

• Members of the Summit community are working to
  incorporate the goals and objectives of the
  Summit into their current work, pursue the
  commitments they have already made and continue
  to make new commitments.

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Track II Diplomacy

• A Roundtable Discussion
• Galvanize women leaders and stakeholder
  organizations
• Create an informal association of like-minded
  and energetic leaders with the ability and
  opportunity to respond to crises and potential
  crisis situations
• Facilitate an in-depth analysis and discussion
  of how women diplomats work toward building
  sustainable, durable peace and security

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Call to Action

• Our different cultures and backgrounds are
  unified by our common sense of urgency and shared
  resolve to ensure that all people may live free
  from fear and want.  We commit to supporting
  effective policies that increase human and state
  security and challenge affronts to both.

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Call to Action

• As of March 2008, more than 230 leaders have
  signed on.
• More than a dozen websites have featured the Call
  to Action.
• To sign on to the Call to Action visit
  www.WomenandGlobalSecurity.org.

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Situation in Kenya

• The Summit community reconnected when asked by a
  Summit member to follow closely the developing
  situation in Kenya.
• For more information or to connect with the women
  leaders working in Kenya, contact Michelle
  Bologna at michelle.bologna_at_eginitiative.org.

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2009 International ColloquiumWomens
Empowerment, Leadership Development,
International Peace and Security

• Empowering women at various levels to become
  effective leaders.
• http//www.internationalcolloquium.com
• March 7-8, 2009
• Monrovia, Liberia

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Why Women Leaders?

• Women leaders must
• Take advantage of and improve existing
  infrastructure of mechanisms for accountability.
• Enhance women's voices and be more proactive and
  effective when working with the media to reframe
  the security debate.
• Coordinate their efforts to make better use of
  and improve existing hubs of information
  gathering, analysis, messaging and action.

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For more information,to sign the Call to Action
and to add your commitment to bringing about a
more secure and just world,please visit

• www.WomenandGlobalSecurity.org