Category Archives: Peace

23 April 2024 10:00 ~ National Stalking Awareness Week Conference 2024: Join Forces Against Stalking – Suzy Lamplugh Trust – Online

For National Stalking Awareness Week 2024, our theme is “Join Forces Against Stalking”. Effective multi-agency working is crucial for ensuring victims of stalking are supported from their point of disclosure right through until a conviction and beyond.

This year, we are calling for agencies across the police, CPS and healthcare to join forces, and work together to effectively support victims of stalking. We will be showcasing examples of best practice and highlighting the important role multi-agency working has played for the victims we support.

Key Speakers

  • Chris Shelley, Chair of Trustees, Suzy Lamplugh Trust
  • Emma Lingley-Clark, Interim CEO, Suzy Lamplugh Trust
  • Emily Thornberry, Labour MP and Shadow Attorney General
  • Deputy Chief Constable Paul Mills, National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead for Stalking and Harassment
  • Catherine Hinwood, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Programme Director at the National Health Service (NHS). Catherine creates policies that aim to prevent sexual harassment and sexual violence for employees and patients across multiple health networks and organisations. In addition to her work with the NHS, Catherine Hinwood also led the UK government response in relation to COVID for victims of crime – particularly victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence.
  • A message from the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, Baroness Newlove. In her role as Victims’ Commissioner, Baroness Newlove champions the voices of victims and witnesses, ensuring their concerns are heard and that the government upholds its commitments to them.
  • Richard Spinks, father of Gracie Spinks
  • The Lord Russell of Liverpool

Breakout Rooms:

Breakout Room 1: A Coordinated Police and CPS Response

  • Karen Morgan-Reed, CPS
  • Lucy Appleton, CPS
  • Hannah Sereni, Home Office policy lead for Stalking and ‘Honour’-Based Abuse. She has worked in the civil service for over 5 years, working on crime reduction policies such as drugs misuse and serious and organised crime.
  • Terri Wilkinson, National Staff Officer to DCC Paul Mills, Lead for Stalking and Harassment Offences. Terri joined Wiltshire Police in 2002 working initially in Swindon Police Station and later Wiltshire police Headquarters. She has a passion for understanding serial perpetrator behaviours and interventions and through the experience gained with Public Protection, MARAC and Offender Management moved to the National Portfolio for harassment and stalking offences.

Breakout Room 2: A Health Response to Stalking

  • Dr Alan Underwood, Principle Clinical Psychologist at the Stalking Threat Assessment Centre and the National Stalking Clinic. He is also a lecturer in Forensic Psychology and Mental Health at Queen Mary University of London. His role at STAC involves working within a multi-agency service which assesses, manages and focuses on reducing the offending of those engaged in stalking across the metropolitan police force area.
  • Dr Rebecca Morland, Consultant Counselling Psychologist and Systemic Practitioner, Cambridgeshire Stalking Intervention Partnership
  • Charlotte Chappell, IRISi Advise programme representative
  • Chermall Williams, Senior Project Manager in the Health team at Standing Together.

Breakout Room 3: Learning from Best Practice – Multi-Agency Stalking Intervention Programmes (MASIP)

  • Detective Sergeant Dave Thomason, Cheshire Constabulary, Harm Reduction Unit
  • DCI Daniel Thompson (STAC), current MPS Deputy Lead Responsible Officer for Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment. He oversees the London Stalking Threat Assessment Centre, bringing together the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, MPS, North London Mental Health Partnership and London Probation Service. DCI Thompson has spent most of his policing career investigating domestic abuse and rape and serious sexual offences. His current focus is on supporting the London implementation of DRIVE and improving police management of digital data in stalking investigations.
  • Sara Henley, Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist. Sara has over thirty years’ experience within the NHS and currently works for Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust in the specialist area of fixated threat and stalking. Sara is the lead psychologist for the National Stalking Clinic and clinical lead for the Stalking Threat Assessment Centre (STAC).
  • Senior Stalking Advocate in Stalking Threat Assessment Centre (STAC)

Ends 1pm

Ticket £36.00

Book online at https://www.suzylamplugh.org/Event/national-stalking-awareness-week-conference-2024-join-forces-against-stalking

 

March 26, 2024

5 December 2021 ~ Call for Abstracts Deadline – Feminist Political Economy and Peace: An Interdisciplinary Workshop – LSE Centre for Women Peace and Security

Feminist political economy is uniquely placed to examine the continuum of violence, the connections between different forms of violence and inequalities, and equally importantly, to imagine peace otherwise.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together people from different disciplines working on centring feminist political economy, broadly understood, in our gendered understandings of violence and peace.

Key questions to be explored include, but are not limited to:

  • What is the relationship between gender, inclusive economies, and peace?
  • How does the political economy of peace produce and is produced by notions of femininity and masculinity?
  • How can we imagine peace otherwise through a feminist political economy perspective?
  • How has feminist political economy historically engaged with peace and violence?
  • What role could feminist political economy play in conflict prevention?
  • What is the political economy of and around the UN Women, Peace and Security agenda?
  • What is the relationship between extractive economies, peace, and justice?
  • What is the value of feminist political economic analysis of peace and violence in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic?

We welcome contributions that explore these questions from a feminist perspective from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to international relations, international law, peace studies, political economy, political ecology, gender, and development studies.

Deadline:

  • Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a title should be sent by 5 December 2021 to Dr Elena B. Stavrevska at e.stavrevska@lse.ac.uk with the email subject heading ‘Feminist Political Economy and Peace’. Please also send a short biography of no more than 500 words.

Workshop:

  • The accepted contributors will be expected to submit draft papers by 9 March. The workshop will be held online on 15-17 March 2022.

Full details https://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security/News/Call-for-Abstracts

October 21, 2021

26 October 2021 13:00 ~ The 21st Anniversary of the WPS Agenda: Progress or Regress? – Centre for Women, Peace and Security – Online

21 years have passed since the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, and a new generation of women peacebuilders have emerged, courageous and imaginative enough to take on the challenges posed by complex conflicts, seeking non-violent solutions. But as this agenda comes of age, the systemic and institutional changes needed to realise its promise remain mired in apathy, ad hockery and amnesia.

In this month’s “Coming of Age of WPS: 21 in 2021” event, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini MBE will talk with three generations of Women peacebuilders: Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a pioneer, whose work is among the inspirational forces behind the agenda; Enass Muzamel, a humanitarian practitioner and human rights activist, spearheading civic and youth engagement; and Ahlem Nasraoui, a leader and influencer, embracing new methods and practices for peacebuilding.

Speakers: 

  • Dr. Hanan Ashrawi (@DrHananAshrawi) is a distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, and scholar, making history as the first woman to hold a seat in the highest executive body in Palestine.
  • Enass Muzamel (@EnassMuzamel2) is a Sudanese development practitioner and civil society activist who has worked with various UN and international agencies focusing on governance, gendered peacebuilding and advocacy.
  • Ahlem Nasraoui (@NasraouiAhlem) is an accomplished leader and influencer for inclusive youth engagement with marginalized groups.
  • Chair: Sanam Naraghi Anderlini (@sanambna) is Director of the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security and the founder of The International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN).

This event is co-hosted by The International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. 

  • Until 14:15

Help our at-risk Afghan colleagues with your donation. We are a coalition of NGOs, academics, activists, women’s rights defenders, journalists, artists, filmmakers and peacebuilders. We are working to get our Afghan colleagues and families, who are under direct threat from the Taliban, to safety.

This event is free and open to all. Please pre-register to attend here.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security/events/Current-Events/The-21st-Anniversary-of-the-WPS-Agenda-Progress-or-Regress

 

October 13, 2021

22 October 2021 13:00 ~ Crisis as an Opportunity for Transformative Change – Women’s International Peace Centre and the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security – Online

Zoom Webinar – Finishes 2:00pm

Speakers

  • Margaret LoWilla
    Programme Officer, Women’s International Peace Centre
  • Saba Hamzah
    Yemeni poet, writer, and educator
  • Sharon Eryenyu
    Communications Officer, Women’s International Peace Centre
  • Juliet Were
    Deputy Executive Director of Women’s International Peace Centre

Chair

Louise Arimatsu
Distinguished Policy Fellow, LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security

This event is co-hosted with the Women’s International Peace Centre and launches the second edition of their Feminist Peace Series magazine. The Feminist Peace Series was born out of the continuous inquiry into what Feminist Peace means in practice intending to showcase the different transformative approaches to peacebuilding. In the 1st Edition of the Feminist Peace Series, The Peace Centre shared various understandings of Feminist Peace with perspectives from practitioners, partners and colleagues in the field of peacebuilding.

The 2nd edition focuses on how women and, in particular, feminist peace activists are responding to the direct and indirect consequences of Covid-19 and elaborate on the practical and theoretical implications for feminist peace. With Feminist Peace Series, we hope to continue building a community of diverse contributors and readers that value activism and that understand feminist perspectives on peacebuilding.

About the speakers:

  • Margaret LoWilla (@_lilowilla) is a Programme Officer at the Women’s International Peace Centre. She has vast experience in the field of Leadership, Peace, Security and Development. She is also a researcher and writer, documenting stories of Africans from their own lived experiences, highlighting their resilience and centering their agency and innovation. Her works are featured in the Young African Leaders Journal of Development, ALC Covid-19 Op-Ed Series and Covid Stories from East Africa and Beyond: Lived experiences and forward-looking reflections, published by Langaa Research and Publishing.
  • Saba Hamzah (@Saba_Hamzah) is a Yemeni poet, writer, and educator based in the Netherlands. Her main devices are line and light and the moments in between. Saba’s work questions power structures of societies at large using art and literary interventions as tools for social mediation and transformation. Her scholarship activates silences in living archives of women in the conditions of diaspora and exile.  Saba has been working on a collection of photo-poetry, Landless: Our Shared Heaven (2015-present). This collection examines the interplay of power relations through social mobility issues of state borders, exile, displacement, and deal with themes of war and death, in their many forms. You can find more of her work on her website.
  • Sharon Eryenyu (@ShaRown_VII) is an African Feminist and Content Creator with a keen interest in women and girls’ human rights. She is most satisfied by socially conscious engagements that impact people’s lives positively and envisions a society where the ideals of feminism are valued in such a way that women fully embrace their autonomy and agency, build their leadership capacity, and tap into their power. Some of her featured articles can be found in the first edition of the Feminist Peace Series Magazine. She is presently the Communications Officer at Women’s International Peace Centre.
  • Juliet Were (@WereJuliet) is the Deputy Executive Director of Women’s International Peace Centre, where she has led research and training for women to amplify their voices and advocate for policies and programmes tackling the impact of conflict. She has co-authored ground breaking research on women’s rights in situations of armed conflict and post-conflict in Africa and Asia. Juliet has coordinated physical and psychological rehabilitation programmes for war survivors in Uganda, Liberia, South Sudan and Kashmir. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Uganda Women’s Network and as an Advisor to Global Fund for Women.
  • Chair: Louise Arimatsu (@larimatsu10) is Distinguished Policy Fellow in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, where she works on the ERC project ‘Gendered Peace’. Her current research projects include ‘A Feminist Foreign Policy’ and ‘Women and Weapons’.

This event is free and open to all. Please pre-register to attend here.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security/events/Current-Events/Crisis-as-an-Opportunity-for-Transformative-Change

 

October 5, 2021

22 October 2021 13:00 ~ Crisis as an Opportunity for Transformative Change – Women’s International Peace Centre and the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security – Online

Zoom Webinar – Finishes 2:00pm

Speakers

  • Margaret LoWilla
    Programme Officer, Women’s International Peace Centre
  • Saba Hamzah
    Yemeni poet, writer, and educator
  • Sharon Eryenyu
    Communications Officer, Women’s International Peace Centre
  • Juliet Were
    Deputy Executive Director of Women’s International Peace Centre

Chair

Louise Arimatsu
Distinguished Policy Fellow, LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security

This event is co-hosted with the Women’s International Peace Centre and launches the second edition of their Feminist Peace Series magazine. The Feminist Peace Series was born out of the continuous inquiry into what Feminist Peace means in practice intending to showcase the different transformative approaches to peacebuilding. In the 1st Edition of the Feminist Peace Series, The Peace Centre shared various understandings of Feminist Peace with perspectives from practitioners, partners and colleagues in the field of peacebuilding.

The 2nd edition focuses on how women and, in particular, feminist peace activists are responding to the direct and indirect consequences of Covid-19 and elaborate on the practical and theoretical implications for feminist peace. With Feminist Peace Series, we hope to continue building a community of diverse contributors and readers that value activism and that understand feminist perspectives on peacebuilding.

About the speakers:

  • Margaret LoWilla (@_lilowilla) is a Programme Officer at the Women’s International Peace Centre. She has vast experience in the field of Leadership, Peace, Security and Development. She is also a researcher and writer, documenting stories of Africans from their own lived experiences, highlighting their resilience and centering their agency and innovation. Her works are featured in the Young African Leaders Journal of Development, ALC Covid-19 Op-Ed Series and Covid Stories from East Africa and Beyond: Lived experiences and forward-looking reflections, published by Langaa Research and Publishing.
  • Saba Hamzah (@Saba_Hamzah) is a Yemeni poet, writer, and educator based in the Netherlands. Her main devices are line and light and the moments in between. Saba’s work questions power structures of societies at large using art and literary interventions as tools for social mediation and transformation. Her scholarship activates silences in living archives of women in the conditions of diaspora and exile.  Saba has been working on a collection of photo-poetry, Landless: Our Shared Heaven (2015-present). This collection examines the interplay of power relations through social mobility issues of state borders, exile, displacement, and deal with themes of war and death, in their many forms. You can find more of her work on her website.
  • Sharon Eryenyu (@ShaRown_VII) is an African Feminist and Content Creator with a keen interest in women and girls’ human rights. She is most satisfied by socially conscious engagements that impact people’s lives positively and envisions a society where the ideals of feminism are valued in such a way that women fully embrace their autonomy and agency, build their leadership capacity, and tap into their power. Some of her featured articles can be found in the first edition of the Feminist Peace Series Magazine. She is presently the Communications Officer at Women’s International Peace Centre.
  • Juliet Were (@WereJuliet) is the Deputy Executive Director of Women’s International Peace Centre, where she has led research and training for women to amplify their voices and advocate for policies and programmes tackling the impact of conflict. She has co-authored ground breaking research on women’s rights in situations of armed conflict and post-conflict in Africa and Asia. Juliet has coordinated physical and psychological rehabilitation programmes for war survivors in Uganda, Liberia, South Sudan and Kashmir. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Uganda Women’s Network and as an Advisor to Global Fund for Women.
  • Chair: Louise Arimatsu (@larimatsu10) is Distinguished Policy Fellow in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, where she works on the ERC project ‘Gendered Peace’. Her current research projects include ‘A Feminist Foreign Policy’ and ‘Women and Weapons’.

This event is free and open to all. Please pre-register to attend here.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security/events/Current-Events/Crisis-as-an-Opportunity-for-Transformative-Change

 

October 5, 2021