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ROSA LUXEMBURG FOUNDATION BRUSSELS

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING AND

PREVENTION IN THE STRUGGLE

AGAINST VIOLENCE AND WAR

Conference, Brussels, 24-25 November 2011

Venue: Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 99-101, Brussels

Conference languages: English, French, GermanOrganisation: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels

Contact: Tel. +32 (0) 2738 7663, Email: [email protected]

THE CONFERENCE ---------------------------

The Brussels office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has carried out a two-year

investigation project in which peace activists from Rwanda, Somalia, ex-Yugoslavia

and the Middle East have reflected upon their experiences with the development of

conflict, civil resistance and processes of reconstruction of peace. The results ofthese projects are to be presented to the knowledgeable public as the cornerstone

for a concept of consciousness-raising and prevention in the struggle against

violence and war on 24/25 November 2011 in Brussels. In the concluding debate,

four essential questions are to be addressed:

1. How can the specific experience of women in conflict-prevention, civil

resistance and reconciliation-processes be recognized as the main tool for the

development of general concepts and strategies?

2. How can we reach a way to solve ethnic, religious and economic conflicts

through compromises?

3. Shouldnt it be necessary to develop, in addition to Amnesty International andHuman Rights Watch, a Conflict Watch Network to inform the international

community and the public about changes in the prevailing narrative in the direction

of violence.

4. Whichprojects must the EU initiate in order to build a civil policy structure ofprevention?
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CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING AND PREVENTION IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST VIOLENCE AND WAR

CONFERENCE, 24-25 NOVEMBER 2011, VENUE: COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS, BRUSSELS

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THURSDAY, 24 NOV. 2011, 10.00-18.00

09.00 10.00 Registration

10:00 11:00Panel 1: Introduction

Ms. Birgit Daiber, RLS Brussels Ms. Galia Golan, University Professor, Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centers Lauder

School of Government, Israel

Ms.Asha Hagi-Elmi, Save Somali Women and Children, Somalia Ms.Angela Liberatore, European Commission, DG Research11.00 - 11.15 Coffee Break

11:15 13:00

Panel 2: Women's Contribution to Peace and Reconciliation,

Conclusions of RLS-Working Group

Chair: Mr. Norbert Schepers, Advisory board member of Rosa Luxemburg

Foundation, Chairman of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Bremen.

Ms. Birgit Daiber, RLS Brussels Ms.Yolande Mukagasana, Nyamirambo Point dAppui, Kigali, Rwanda Ms. Bosiljka Schedlich, Stiftung BERBRCKEN, and Sdosteuropa Kultur

e.V., Berlin, Germany

Ms. Shukria Dini, Independent Researcher, Consultant and Founder andDirector of Somali Womens Studies Centre (SWSC), Nairobi/Kenya

Ms. Lama Hourani, Heinrich Bll Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine Ms. Ghada Al-Jadba, UNRWA Gaza Ms. Molly Malekar, Director of Counseling Center for Women, Jerusalem,

Israel

13.00 14.00 Lunch

14:00 15:30

Panel 3: Civil Resistance and Protection during Violent Conflicts

Chair: Ms. Shukria Dini, Independent Researcher, Consultant and Founder and

Director of Somali Womens Studies Centre (SWSC), Nairobi/Kenya

Ms. Ruchama Marton, Founder of Physicians for Human Rights Israel,Alternative Noble Peace Price

Ms. Sybille Fezer, medica mondiale


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15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 18:00

Panel 4: Peace and Reconciliation

Chair: Molly Malekar, Director of Counseling Center for Women, Jerusalem, Israel

Ms. Diana Francis, Chair of the Committee for Conflict TransformationSupport, Great Britain: Gender, needs and power,

Ms. Betty Bigombe, State Minister for Water Resources in the UgandaCabinet, Uganda's Woman of the Year 1993 for her efforts to end the violence

Ms. Naomi Chazan, The New Israel Fund, Israel

FRIDAY, 25 NOV. 2011, 9.00-16.00 -------

09:00 10:30

Panel 5: Characteristics of Contemporary International Wars and

Militarization of Policies

Chair: Ms. Johanna Bussemer, Foreign Policy Advisor, Group THE LEFT/DIE LINKE,

German Federal Parliament

Mr. Erhard Crome, RLS Berlin Mr. Bernard Schmid, Journalist and Essayist, Legal Advisor of Mouvement

contre le racisme et pour l'amiti entre les peoples (MRAP), Paris

Ms. Selmin alkan, European Womens Lobby (EWL), Brussels: The civil-military approach in Afghanistan: where is the peace, security and justice for

women and civil society?


10:45 12:15

Panel 6: Conflict Prevention / Conflict Mediation

Chair: Molly Malekar, Director of Counseling Center for Women, Jerusalem, Israel

Ms. Osnat Lubrani, UNDP Kosovo Mr. Helmut Scholz, MEP GUE/NGL (Die Linke): "A critical perspective on EU

Foreign and Security Policy and the new developments in International Law, in

particular the role of ICC and the UN-based Responsibility-to-Protect-Clause

(RtoP)"

Ms.AntoniaPotter Prentice,Senior Associate to EPLO


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12:15 - 13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:45

Panel 7: International Cooperation of Women against Violence

and War

Chair: Marlis Gensler, Researcher, RLS Brussels

Ms. Karin Ulmer, Gender and Trade, APRODEV Ms. Karin Fogg, former EU Ambassador and IDEA Secretary-General, associate

fellow Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies

Ms. Simone Susskind, President of Actions in the Mediterranean, andInternational Womens Commission


15:00 16:00

Panel 8: Common Proposals for Sensibilisation and Prevention

Chair: Galia Golan, University Professor, Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centers Lauder

School of Government, Israel

Ms. Birgit Daiber, RLS Brussels Ms. Naomi Chazan, The New Israel Fund, Israel Ms. Diana Francis, Chair of the Committee for Conflict Transformation

Support, Great Britain

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