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This past week the Institute for Peace and Justice hosted this conference and all of us students were able to be a part of it. It was an incredibly empowering feeling to sit in a room full of women and men from all over the world who were meeting together to foster peace and justice.
I will write more about the specifics of what I learned in upcoming posts, but I would love to hear if there is anything about the topics that you are interested in that I could address. Here are the sessions I attended:
Lecture:
Louise Arbour, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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"Integrating Security, Development and Human Rights"
Panel One:
"Ending Cycles of Conflict through Gender-Inclusive Peacebuilding"
Breakout Session One:
Captain Margaret Grun Kibben, Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains
"The role of religion and religious in areas of conflict"
Panel Two:
"Protecting Civilians in Armed Conflict from Violence, including Sexual Violence"
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Binalakshmi Nepram, Manipuri Women Gun Survivors Network and Control Arms Foundation of India
"Women and Micro-disarmament"
Panel Three:
"Advancing Inclusive Security in Multiple Settings: Strategies and Best Practices"
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Breakout Session Three:
Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas, El Paso
"Violence and Activism at the U.S.-Mexico Border"
HI Brooke, great photos! and great blog. great job on summarizing debate and love the photo of you. love you, mom
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