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The Liberia Solidarity Group and the National Women’s Council of Ireland, in association with the Institute for British-Irish Studies (IBIS), School of Politics and IR, UCD, and Trócaire, in organising a round table discussion on Wednesday 15th May in Dublin. The event is entitled ‘Women, Peace and Decision-Making in post-conflict societies’ and takes place from 10.30am – 13.00pm in the National Women’s Council of Ireland’s offices (4th Floor, 2/3 Parnell Sq. East, Dublin 1). Our Liberian guest speakers are: Dorothy Tooman – Director of DEN-L Development Education Network Liberia, Kortoe Williams – Director of Action Aid Liberia and Caroline Brown – Deputy Head of Mission, medica mondiale.

We aim to bring Irish Women in Civil Society Organisations North/South together in solidarity with women leaders in Civil Society Organisations in Liberia to exchange experiences on ‘women, peace and decision-making in post conflict societies’.

This round table event is part of the DFAT-CRU funded IBIS project titled ‘Addressing Cultural Legacies of Conflict. Towards an intercultural and inter-dimensional Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security.’

A particular theme of our discussion will be the release of Ireland’s new White Paper which mentions a specific commitment to 1325 (p. 17):

We will continue to support efforts to implement

the United Nations Security Council Resolution

1325 on Women, Peace and Security, which

recognises the close links between the issues

of peace, security and development, and the

promotion of gender equality and women’s rights.

Ireland’s recently launched National Action Plan

for Implementation of UNSCR 1325 will guide our

efforts in this area. The Conflict Resolution Unit in

the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will

play a lead role for the Government in this area.

Please RSVP for this event to lsgireland@gmail.com by Monday the 13th May at 5pm.