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On the 10-year anniversary o the

landmark adoption o United

Nations Security Council Resolution

(UNSCR) 1325, the Women

PeaceMakers Program convened its

2010 conerence, “Precarious Progress:

U.N. Resolutions on Women, Peace

and Security.”

rom September 29 to October 1, the international working conerence

rought more than 175 women and men rom 47 countries to the

oan B. Kroc Institute or Peace & Justice (IPJ). Speakers and delegates

ncluded U.N. ocials, peace mediators, police and security ocers,

emale peacekeepers, government ocials, directors o national and

nternational organizations, judges and attorneys, technical advisors,

cholars and policy experts.

n 2000, UNSCR 1325 set orth a historic legal and political ramework

hat recognized the mutually reinorcing actors o women’s protection,revention and participation in ensuring international security.

Celebrating progress made in implementing this resolution while also

ecognizing the continued work that needs to be done, the conerence

rovided a orum or experts, practitioners, scholars and activists to

hare inormation, brainstorm next steps and ormulate innovative new

trategies and partnerships.

he conerence commenced with a spirited talk by Distinguished

ecturer Monica McWilliams, one o two women to sign the Good

riday Agreement in Northern Ireland in 1998. (For more on McWilliams’

ecture, see page 2.) Many o the issues highlighted during her lecture

rom the reality o peace as a protracted process to the importance o

ocumenting women’s stories – suraced as key points o discussion

n the ollowing days’ conerence sessions, not least o which was

McWilliams’ powerul closing message: “It is time to turn aspirations

nto guarantees.”

anam Anderlini, co-ounder o the International Civil Society Action

Network (ICAN), provided a rank assessment o the current reality o

A Tentative Celebration Of Peace And Securityy Alicia Simoni

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global security: “We’re still in a world where i you’re violent you ge

heard. I you throw bombs, eventually someone invites you to a very

nice peace process.”

Against this backdrop, conerence speakers and delegates oered

insights on good practices and innovative strategies to catalyze newthinking and orward progress on women, peace and security. Amon

the key strategies discussed was the imperative or more gender-

inclusive security policies. Several emale peacekeepers – serving o

Jordanian mission in Sudan and the Indian mission in Liberia – oer

rsthand accounts o the critical comparative advantage women in

uniorm provide in confict settings.

As Rakhi Sahi, commander o the all-emale 2nd Indian Formed Polic

Unit in Liberia, poignantly stated, “Forced incest, public rape, delibe

inection o HIV, orced pregnancies, rape with torture, and mutilati

are used or maximum humiliation to shred the social abric o soci

Peacekeepers in uniorm may be the rst responders. And women

peacekeepers react better.”

The IPJ and the co-conveners o the 2010 Women PeaceMakers

Conerence issued an ocial statement calling on all relevant actor

to heed the actionable recommendations that emerged rom this

momentous conerence – with the stark recognition that unless and

until they do, “any investment in peace and security will be both

inecient and insucient.”

The conerence statement can be ound at www.sandiego.edu/

peacestudies/documents/ipj/2010-Conerence-Statement.pd

We’re still in a world where i you’re violent you get heard. I you throw bombs, eventually someone invites you to a very nice peace process.

—Sanam Anderlini

Peacekeepers Asmahan Alawaisheh, Shubhra Tiwari and Doreen Malambo acilitatina working session on the impact o women in U.N. peacekeeping missions


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an Rights Commissioner Shares Her Story And Spark

ams narrates her involvement in the women’s movement and Northernpeace process

mor,commitment and courage were all on display when

onica McWilliams,the chie commissioner o the Northern

Human Rights Commission,presented the keynote address

Women PeaceMakers Conerence as the op ening Joan B.Kroc

uished Lecture Series (DLS) speaker or the 2010-2011 academic

s this year’s series ocuses on post-confict challenges,Mc Williams

about both the diculties in securing women’s participation

e negotiations and,just as importantly,assuring their voices are

once negotiations are completed.

at the IPJ,all DLS speakers are interviewed by IPJ sta,USD

or other experts in their eld.The inter view,along with the

r’s biography and lecture transcript,are published in print and

web. The ollowing are edited excerpts rom IPJ Dep uty Director

er’s interview with McWilliams,looking at how the women’s

movement in Northern Ireland built the oundation or the

n’s Coalition party and the election o McWilliams and another

ntative to a seat at the peace table.

e troubles” in Northern Ireland and the dangers o a polarized society:

und you was havoc and chaos.In my second year o univer sity in

hese terrib le events started to happen. There was this massive

we had no electricity and no water. My s ister was doing her

nd we had a little car that got us to her c ampus and we had

e through people wearing balaclavas and threatening us with

l bats. One o them was one o her pupils and he let us go,but

ourselves in an incredibly dangerous situation that could have

eally bad outcome. And unortunately,it did have a really bad

me or a very good riend.We used to hitch to Belast as students,

meone picked him up. The next we knew his body was dumped,

er we ound out that he’d been tortured beore he was shot

h the head.That had an incredible impact,as you can imagine,as

g undergraduate.”

Williams’ growth into a women’s rights activist, ater post-graduate

the United States:

home,not sure o whether I’d come back and do the doctorate

United States or whether I’d stay.Once I got home I realized I

ly couldn’t go back, that I really wanted to get involved at home.

At that stage my whole consciousness had really been coming to the

ore in terms o women’s rights.I arrived home just as the women’s

movement was getting o the ground,and I threw mysel heart and soul

into it.”

On the challenges and success o orming the Northern Ireland

Women’s Coalition:

“We got a lot o criticism or not being the People’s Coalition.People said

to us,‘You’re sexist,so you’re just as sectarian as the rest o the parties

because you’re only speaking to one part o the community.’And I said,

‘No,we’re looking or men’s votes.’We used to knock on doors and the

husband would say,‘I’ll go and get the wie.’But I said,‘I need your vote,

too.’And he’d say,‘Oh,well I’m just going to vote the same way as I’ve

always voted.’

“We never ever intended to get elected and, in many ways,we wanted to

get out o there as quickly as we’d got in. We weren’t going to change

the ace o politics; it was more that we wanted to create a situation

where we could get more people’s solutions or peace. We aimed to get

more women into politics, and really it was a vanguard action to the

other parties.When I was elected to the r st assembly,I was completely

shocked.B ut you had to be elected to be part o the implementation o

the peace agreement. And that was my only reason or staying elected,

because I wanted to be part o seeing through what I had signed up to.”

On the potential or lasting peace in Northern Ireland:

“There is hope. I see it in the ‘prison to peace projects,’ where a lot o

ex-prisoners are prepared to go out into communities, and schools

are inviting them in to talk about civic education and human rights

education. I never got that education. I could have told you more

about the Spanish Civil War than I could about human rights. I think

there is obviously a possibility or the next generation, but they must,

must nd politics as something they want to be involved in. And that

taste must be a taste that they enjoy – that they’re grasping or and

seeking and wanting.”

To read other DLS interviews online or order booklets or any speaker,

go to http://peace.sandiego.edu/dls

… we wanted to create a situation where we could get more people’s solutions or peace.

—Monica McWilliams

The rst time I worked in Guatemala 16 years ago

monitor a U.N.human rights agreement in a lon

war described as “low intensity”only by analysts not

middle o it.The second time was a USAID eort to s

society in ullling the goals o a peace process in a p

era that still oered much hope.This time the IPJ is s

collaborative eort (see page 4) to strengthen local c

ability to work with justice agencies in a time o gen

violence,corruption and crime.

Working with local populations to address peace and justice challenges is the mos

part o our work here at the Joan B.Kroc Institute or Peace & Justice.As we celeb

anniversary,we are both refecting on our eorts to date and planning our uture w

we hope will go ar beyond a university think tank – our own peace and justice “a

In the places we currently work – Guatemala, Nepal and West Arica – armed conr

that lasted decades are contained by peace processes that stopped the organized v

have not yet achieved a oundation o justice and trust or going orward. As USD’s

Reilly notes in his book Peace-Building & Development in Guatemala and North

“Cease-res and signed agreements are just a preace,and are oten the easier part

peace.”People continue to be overwhelmed with the legacies o co nfict that may

decades to transcend.The IPJ,unlike temporal eld projects, has the ability to deve

relationships and strategies to address those legacies through active learning and c

the eld.

We believe that our core strengths lie in continuing to support the work o human

deenders,youth and women peacebuilders in the eld, ensuring that their eorts

impact and contribute to policy transormation. Over the next 10 years we hope to

current initiatives – mobilizing our Women PeaceMakers at the regional level and e

WorldLink Program beyond the 35 middle and high schools in San Diego and Tijua

youth rom places such as the Philippines and Kenya – and establish additional el

countries acing continued challenges in peacebuilding.By se curing additional res

the capacity o the IPJ and USD to address human r ights and transorm and preven

will create new programs that ulll Joan Kroc’s dream o the IPJ being a place tha

achieve peace with justice.

These pages share our ongoing activities at the end o our rst decade. Please join

continue over the next one to build an institute with greater opportunities or coll

learning and impact.

Peace Talks & Justice MatBy Executive Director Milburn Line

stinguished Lecture Series

IPJ MISSION

Fostering Peace,Cultivating Justice and Creating

a Saer World.Through education,research and

peacemaking activities,the IPJ oers programs

that advance scholarship and practice in confict

resolution and human rights.

PEACE & JUSTICE COMPASS The Peace & Justice Compass newsletter ispublished by the Joan B. Kroc Institute or Peace

& Justice at the University o San Diego’s Joan B.

Kroc School o Peace Studies.

An online version o this newsletter can be

ound at http://peace.sandiego.edu together

with additional inormation about IPJ programsand activities.The views expressed here are not

necessarily those o the University o San Diego. President, University o San Diego

Mary E.Lyons,Ph.D. Provost, University o San Diego

Julie H.Sullivan,Ph.D.

Dean, Joan B.Kroc School o Peace Studies

William Headley,C.S.Sp.,Ph.D. Executive Director

Joan B.Kroc Institute or Peace & Justice

Milburn Line,M.A.

Editor, Peace & Justice Compass

Kaitlin Barker Contributors

Dee Aker,Karla Alvarez,Kaitlin Barker,Diana

Kutlow,Milburn Line, Elisa Lurkis,Emiko Noma,Dustin Sharp, Alicia Simoni and Melissa Wagoner Design

Buchanan Design,San Diego

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Recent Ipj Publications

Milburn Line“From Security Congurations to Sustainable Peace.”Paper presented

in Beijing,China,at the International Conerence on the Process o

Reconciliation and Historical Refections in East Asia and Europe ater the

Second World War.Sept. 4,2010.

“Counterpoint: A New Plan or Colombia.” International Herald

Tribune. Aug. 18, 2010.

“U.S.needs to reevaluate Plan Colombia.” Los Angeles Times.Aug.5, 2010.

“From ‘Drill, baby, drill’ to a blue ocean strategy: U.S. leadership or a

changing world.” San Diego Daily Transcript . June 24, 2010.

Emiko Noma“For Those Who Came Beore Us.” Peace X Peace: Voices ro

Frontlines . July 27,2010.

Emiko Noma and Alicia Simoni

“Women Building Peace:Using Narratives to Understand Im

presented in Sydney,Australia,at the bi-annual conerence

International Peace Research Association.July 8,2010.



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The IPJ,in collaboration with the

Barbara Ford Peace Center (CBF) in

Quiché,Guatemala,has been awarded

a grant rom the U.S.Department o

State’s Bureau or Democracy,Human

Rights and Labor to assist indigenous

people in exercising their civil and

political rights.

More than hal o the 646 massacres

o largely Mayan indigenous villages

documented by the truth commission

in Guatemala were perpetrated in

Quiché,which continues to suer the

legacies o violence,poverty and

exclusion.Though politically motivated

killings,disappearances and torture

characteristic o the confict are no

prevalent,dysunctional or inecient justice processes continue in Guatemala. As a result,blic has little condence in the state’s capacity to provide justice or security.Moving

d impunity and toward the rule o law will require eective c ivil society engagement with

nstitutional (retributive) legal system and Mayan customary (restorative) justice programs.

uman rights and justice eorts

cused predominantly on legal

nisms,reorming legal codes and

g attorneys – to the exclusion o

rs o the justice system who seek

or injustice.But especially in

ts o historical impunity and massive

violations,as in the case o Guatemala,

portant to structure more integrated

ches to justice that include civil

actors and populations seeking

Building on the energy and eective

ditional legal empowerment eorts

hé civil society organizations

tice interlocutors,the IPJ’s three-

laborative project will continue

tiy more inclusive methods or

nous people to realize their rights

rticipate as ull-fedged citizens in

processes.

itiative builds on a workshop with iché Confict Network in June 2009

ace & Justice Compass,Vol.4,Issue 1).

eam traveled to Guatemala in August 2010 to conduct an initial baseline assessment that

ape the project’s participatory design.Justice ocials, civil society organizations and local

unities were consulted to ensure the project will ocus on issues o relevance that can be

orward. IPJ Executive Director Milburn Line returned to Quiché in October to review the

e and work with the CBF on the next steps, including multi-sectoral strategic planning.

w our eorts in Guatemala, go to www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/feld/guatemala

Nov. 18, 2010

KPBS Radio,“These Days”: Peace W

on her Peace Corps volunteer exp

the IPJ panel event honoring the P

years o service.

Sept. 26, 2010

San Diego Union-Tribune:The W

PeaceMakers and Deputy Director

eatured in an article,“Four Wome

Lessons o Peace to San Diego.”

July 28, 2010

wsRadio, “Your Family Matters”: P

Karla Alvarez and three WorldLin

interns on this year’s theme, “Cri

Borders: Threats to Hum an Secur

Karla Alvarez (standing) with WorldLink inteKeegan, Olivia Williams and Sara Linssen in t

J In The Field WorldLinkwarded Guatemala Justice Project Grant

Training Human RightsAdvocates In Botswana

Global Organized Crime On Trial At 2011 Meeting

Humanity For Sale?

EmployeeRecogniti

Preparations are underway or the WorldLink Program’s

14th Annual Youth Town Meeting on January 21, 2011.

This year, the student selected theme is “Crimes Without

Borders: Threats to Human Security.”Students and teachers

will spend the 2010-2011 academic year ocusing on the

local and international implications o human traicking,

illicit drug trade, gangs, terrorism and small arms.

More than 700 students rom schools rom North County

to Rosarito,Mexico,are expected to attend this year’s event.

Speakers representing the Bilateral Saety Corridor Coalition,

Drug Enorcement Administration,San Diego County Sheri’s

Department,United Nations Oce on Drugs and Crime,U.S.Department o Homeland Security,

and a panel o ormer gang members,among others,will share their experiences with the students.

WorldLink Fall Interns Elena Bellaart,senior at Patrick Henr y High School,and Katie Athis,

senior at Academy o Our Lady o Peace, are working with Program Ocer Karla Alvarez to

lead student outreach and logistics or the event.“Young people are usually very interested

and motivated when they learn about the kinds o things the Youth Town Meeting will address.

This is exactly the mindset that inspires change,so it’s exciting to be part o ostering that

mentality in my generation,”refects Bellaart.

IPJ Senior Program Oicer Dia

was a recipient o USD’s 2010

o Human Resources Employee

Award or her signiicant contri

university’s core values. A dilige

o the Joan B. Kroc Distinguishe

Series, Kutlow brings high-level

policymakers to USD to share k

broaden understanding on issue

and justice.

In many ways,Botswana is an unusual location

or a human rights training.It is requently

ranked as sub-Saharan Arica’s best governed

country,having successully used its diamond

wealth to uel national development.And

compared to some o its troubled neighbors

like Zimbabwe,human rights violations are not

widespread in Botswana.

Thanks to the work o the Arican Human Rights

Consortium,however,Botswana is on its way

to becoming a hub or training human rights

leaders rom throughout the sub-region.And its

calm and orderly capital,Gaborone,is a good

location or refection and study.The consortium

is the brainchild o Peter Takirambudde,the

ormer executive director o Human Rights

Watch’s Arica division.

In July 2010,USD Assistant Proessor Dustin Sharp

(see page 11), who leads the IPJ’s West Arican

Human Rights Training Initiative (WAHRTI),

traveled to Gaborone to conduct a training

on human rights research and documentation.

Trainees came rom a wide variety o countries,

including Kenya,Zimbabwe,South Arica,Liberia

and Botswana itsel.While many were drawn

rom the NGO sector,a signicant number o

participants work or government.The training

ocused on research design,investigative

eldwork techniques,data analysis,report

production and advocacy.

“Over time,it is my hope that the collaboration

between the IPJ,which largely ocuses on

human rights training in West Arica,and the

consortium,which ocuses on trainings in East

and Southern Arica,will help to cultivate the

next generation o human rights talent and

leadership on the c ontinent,”said Sharp.

In January 2011,Sharp plans to travel to Liberia

and Guinea to conduct trainings with local human

rights groups as part o the IPJ’s WAHRTI project.

For more on WAHRTI, go to www.sandiego.edu/

peacestudies/ipj/feld/west_arica.php

In preparation or the Youth

Town Meeting,WorldLink

held a Youth Forum on human

tracking and commercial

sexual exploitation.A panel o

our speakers included a service

provider,police detective,an arts

therapist and a human tracking

survivor.“I made a promise to

my brothers and sisters I would

not die beore I told our story,”

said Malaki Hendrix,who

recounted being sold by his

impoverished mother as a young boy in the Philippines.

Nearly 140 students rom various high schools,as well as USD undergraduate and graduate

students,attended the orum.“How can we as a community help or try to stop what’s

happening to the kids?”a visibly overwhelmed and r ustrated high school senior rom CETYS

Universidad in Tijuana,Alex Rodriguez,asked. “Because I eel anger.I just can’t express … I

just eel like a child should never be treated like that.I live in Tijuana and I know this stu happens there.I’ve seen people. I don’t really know

their stories,but I’ve seen them.”

Following the lecture,attendees participated in a

workshop led by the H&nds Project at San Diego Youth

Services. Participants were asked to draw outlines o

their hands on a large canvas with messages o hope

and action in response to the orum’s illumination o

human tracking and commercial sexual exploitation.

The canvas and photographs will be displayed as an

exhibit at the Youth Town Meeting in January.

IPJ MediaAppearanc

Students participate in San Diego Youth Services H&nds Project ater the orum

photo courtesy o Outside the Lens YouthMedia Crew

ginia Searing, director o the Barbara Ford Peace Center,s a review o the baseline survey with local justice agenciescates in Quiché

Map no. 3834 Rev. 3, May 2004– United Nations

Department o Peacekeeping Operations, Cartographic Section



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Women PeaceMakers And Peace Writers

Kebeh Flomo o Liberia, a social worker and peace activist

g to heal her nation and its women rom Liberia’s 14-year civil

working with Peace Writer Sara Koenders,a civic integration

ant rom the Netherlands with confict research experience in

mala and Brazil.

Akoru Lochodo is an assistant chie in Kenya’s pastoralist

a District and the only woman negotiating among the region’s

ting semi-nomadic communities. She is working with Peace

Sigrid ornquist , a reelance writer and editor currently

ng an M.F.A in writing.

“Milet” Mendoza o the Philippines,a humanitarian worker with

uilding experience both in the government in Manila and on the

in conficted communities in Mindanao,is working with Peace

Mary Liepold ,editor in chie o Peace X Peace, a global e-network

men making peace.

hengeto apiwa ,a Zimb abwean reugee living in South Arica and

r o the Zimbabwe Diaspora Development Chamber, is working

ace Writer Soa Javed ,editor and production manager or the U.S.

ment o State’s annual Tracking in Persons Report.

omen PeaceMakers ProgramQ&A With Mary Ann Arnado Of The Philippines

eMaker Stories Shared In Australia

he support o an International Opportunity Grant rom USD, IPJ Editor Emiko Noma presented a paper at the bi-annual conerence o the

tional Peace Research Association, the oldest such association in the eld o peace studies. The conerence was held at the Centre or

& Confict Studies at the University o Sydney in Australia in July.

per, co-authored with ormer IPJ Peace Writer Alicia Simoni, used a narrative rom the Women PeaceMakers Program to demonstrate

eaving historical, political and cultural contexts together with women’s perspectives produces a holistic depiction o peacebuilding. The

udy o Zandile Nhlengetwa o South Arica oered insight into the lessons women are learning – through both success and ailure – and

ed points o departure or uture peacebuilding.

d Noma’s blog entry about her experiences at the conerence, go to www.peacexpeace.org/2010/07/or-those-who-came-beore-us

“Being Peace: Te Lie and Work o

Benavides o El Salvador,” by Leigh

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“Keeper o the Soul o the People: T

Work o Bae Liza Llesis Saway o th

by Alicia Simoni.

www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies

ipj/Liza-Llesis-Saway-Philippines.p

New Video Shorts Onl

Video interviews with the 2006 W

PeaceMakers – Shukrije Gashi o K

Palwasha Kakar o Aghanistan,Sv

Kijevcanin o Serbia and Rebecca

Sudan – are now available to view

documentary shorts were lmed

Vision Productions,the IPJ’s lm p

Women PeaceMakers Documenta

won a 2010 Telly Award or outsta

creative excellence in social issue

“Rhythms to Peace,”which chronic

Cameroonian PeaceMaker Susan T

The ollowing is an excerpt o

an interview with 2005 Woman

PeaceMaker Mary Ann Arnado,

conducted by Editor Emiko Noma

while in the Philippines with the

IPJ in April 2010. Arnado is the

secretary-general o the Mindanao

Peoples Caucus (MPC), whose

program Bantay Ceasefre is

now part o the ofcial cease-fre

monitoring mechanism known as

the International Monitoring Team

(IMT).

Q: Do you see the involvement o Bantay Ceasere in the IM as a success or civil society?

A:In terms o engagement, participation,recognition o our eorts and the opportunity to be

able to directly engage those who are having the control over combatants, the ones inficting

the violence against civilians – i you look at it that way,that’s a very b ig victory,especially or

MPC who is really grassroots.It elevated our status.But there are many concerns and questions

that we need to address about the implication o this particular decision,organizationally.Is it

really MPC who will be there? What i this particular mechanism does not work? Will it aect

our credibility at the ground level?

Q: Do you think Bantay Ceasere can be a model or other confict situations?

A:It’s something that other communities can look into,study the experience,and then rom

there develop something which will be more appropriate to their context.Bantay Ceasere

represents a lot o experience,a lot o stories, so many lessons – and so it’s something that can

be an area o study or other peacebuilding eorts outside.But denitely each community has

its own context,its own dynamics, and so it should develop its own mechanism that will be

more appropriate.

Q: I read an article which said Mindanaoans need justice rst and peace later. You work on many

levels or peace and justice; what is your take on that comment?

A:I don’t think that one should come rst beore the other. They can go together.In the

case here in Mindanao,that is exactly what we are doing.There are justice issues that we

can address within the current system, which we are already doing:ling cases or the IDPs,

running ater those who are encroaching on the ancestral domain o the indigenous peoples.

But there are bigger issues also that can be addressed i you actually resolve the armed confict.

Q: Are you going to be able to attend the 10-year anniversary summit o the Women PeaceMakersProgram in 2012?

A:O cour se.The Women PeaceMakers have become like a home or me. It’s a amily.It’s a

venue where you know you are with people who are also doing similar things that you do. So

I get a lot o energy being in that particular community,among peacemakers, even i we are

not really physically connected but we know the kind o work each is doing in her place.I

resonate with that,so I really eel the bond o sisterhood.

Read the ull interview at www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/documents/ipj/Interview-Mary-

Ann-Arnado-April2010.pd

Noma (let) and Deputy Director Dee Aker listening as Arnadoanswers interview questions

Latest Narratives Publ

2006 Women PeaceMakers (clockwise rKijevcanin, Gashi, Kakar and Okwaci (phSun & Moon Vision Productions)

Women PeaceMakers Updates

On this year’s International Day

o Peace, Rubina Feroze Bhatti

o Pakistan received World

Vision International’s 2010

Peacemaking Award or her

deense o women’s and minority

rights and promotion o peaceul

coexistence.In the atermath

o the summer’s fooding crisis,

Bhatti’s organization,Taangh

Wasaib,is continuing to provide

humanitarian assistance to food-

aected Pakistanis.

Sister Pauline Acayo o Uganda was one o two winners o this year’s

Outstanding Leadership Award rom the Association or Confict

Resolution’s (ACR) International Development Committee – recognizing

her contribution to “promoting confict resolution in international

development projec ts.”

In early October, Mary Ann Arnado and Bae Liza Llesis Saway o the

Philippines took their oath o service to the All-Women Corps in the

Civilian Protection Component o the ocial International Monitoring

Team (IMT),which monitors the cease-re in Mindanao.Arnado and

Saway are both aliated with the Mindanao Peoples Caucus, a member

o the IMT.

In September, Luz

Méndez o Guatemala

– one o two women

signatories to

Guatemala’s peace

accords – joined the

Precarious Progress

conerence keynote

speaker Monica

McWilliams in a post-

lecture discussion o

women’s participation

in peace agreements.

Marta Benavides o El Salvador was named one o three co-chairs o the

Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP).

Women PeaceMakers Sarah Lochodo, Merlie Mendoza, Vaiba Flomo and Nora(photo courtesy o Michelle Zousmer)

Bhatti receives her award rom StefenHorstmeier, national director o World VisionPakistan, at a ceremony in Islamabad (photocourtesy o World Vision Peacebuilding)

Méndez (right) responding to McWilliams’ lecture

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From September 4 to

5, 2010, IPJ Executive

Director Milburn Line

presented a paper that

advocated or employing

the concepts and methods

o peacebuilding or

reconciliation in East Asia,

at a conerence sponsored

by the Chinese Academy

o Social Sciences in Beijing. The relationship between China and Japan

continues to be overshadowed by the atrocities committed by the

Imperial Armies in East Asia during the Se cond World War.

Truth-telling commissions,pro secutions,engagement, people-to-people

initiatives and developing the institutions that manage confict within

society and between countries are critical or China and Japan to move

orward constructively.Line emphasized the experience o Bosnia and

Herzegovina as an example o the perils o unresolved injustices and the

potential or violence resulting rom the revival o historical grievances.

A Mandarin Chinese translation o Line’s paper is being prepared, and

an English version can be ound at www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/

documents/ipj/CASS-Conerence-Milburn-Line-Sept2010.pd

Joan Kroc came smiling into the Casa de la Paz to greet the IPJ’s second Distinguished Lec

Caldicott,in the late spring o 2003.Not knowing this would be the last DLS e vent she wo

her beloved IPJ, Joan simply let us know she was pleased with our beginnings.She told us sh

television interview on WorldLink lmed in the theatre and elt proud that this would be a p

people to work across borders on issues o peace and justice. She asked Joyce Neu,the IPJ’s

director,i the peace and justice master’s students were doing well.And then,as always,she

were going to solve this or that confict situation.

She was excited not just with the exquisite building devoted to peacebuilding here at USD,b

the steps being taken by the sta to work internationally or her intention that we should no

talking about,but also making peace. From those o us present when Joan turned the rst sh

the old track grounds at USD,to those who arrived in the ollowing months to shape the ear

knew that she watched intently rom a nearby parking lot as the building went up.

Never demanding,always nudging discreetly,Joan quietly imbued her spirit to keep us work

with justice.The great philanthropist – dear to many people caught in devastation by nature

within the United States and beyond – let a promise and ootprint here that we are proud to

ve years passed between the time she gave USD the unds or her Gandhian dream o an Institute or Peace & Justice and the time she le

passionate commitment and belie in the institute was maniest once more in a nal bequest to the IPJ endowment and an additional end

School o Peace Studies.We celebrate these truly living legacies in our 10th year. Thank you,Joan.

See page 12 or a list o our current donors.

J Insider Remembering The IPJ’s Founding Donorby Dee Aker

to Exhibit Stirs Fire Of Awareness

Peacebuilding Tools For ReconciliationIn East Asia

Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies

W hen the master’s program in peace and justice studies rst began

in 2002,it was housed in the Co llege o Arts and Sciences with

an average cohort o 13 students.Since the School o Peace Studies’

inauguration in 2007,the size o each cohort has increased annually.

This year,the school was pleased to welcome its largest cohor t to date

– 27 new students rom the United States and abroad, including Liberia,

Myanmar,Sudan,Uganda, Japan,South Korea and Indonesia.

As the student population continues to grow,so does the need or

additional aculty members.This all,the school welcomed two ull-time

aculty members and a visiting scholar.

Dustin Sharp, J.D., teaches courses on transitional justice

rights law and advocacy,and directs the program’s special

human rights.A scholar-practitioner building the bridge be

and practice, Sharp also leads the West Arican Human Rig

Initiative through the IPJ,a capacity-building program ocu

human rights organizations in Côte d’Ivoire,Guinea,Liber

Leone (see page 4).

Necla schirgi, Ph.D., joined the aculty as a proessor o p

human security and peacebuilding.Her extensive internat

has spanned research,policy analysis,teaching,research m

and grant making.Over the last 15 years,she has increasin

in confict prevention and peacebuilding – ocusing on th

between security and development.

The school is delighted to host Paul Arthur, D.Litt., as the

2010 visiting peace scholar.One o the acilitators involve

about the peace treaty in Northern Ireland,Arthur is an au

resolving Anglo-Irish political disputes and is requently co

policymakers as they consider new policy reorms.H e ha

in a series o problem-solving workshops in Colombia,Gu

Lanka,Palestine and Macedonia.

School Of Peace Studies Welcomes Largest Cohort And New Faculty

2010-2011 master’s students

m August to December, an exhibit in the IPJ Fine Arts Galleries

award-winning photographer Phil Borges, titled “Stirring the

Global Movement to Empower Women and Girls,”serve d as a

action and celebration o the women and girls who have broken

h barriers o tradition and oppression to become catalysts or

in their communities.

ar’s USD Social Issues Conerence ocused on artists igniting

hange,and there is no better example than Phil Borges,”says IPJ

Program Ocer Diana Kutlow.“His photography brings us closer to

uals whose lives seem very ar away,and the accompanying

,www.stirringthere.org,shows us how we can support them.”

wering women

en ound to be

ctive strategy or

sing poverty and

g stability in the

ping world. In July

he United Nations

d its support by

g the irst U.N.

dedicated exclusively

der equality and

’s empowerm ent, known as UN Women.

gave a talk during the Social Issues Conerence in October,

he announced the “Stirring the Fire Fellowship,”a $3,000 grant

y Borges to USD to help support an undergraduate or graduate

t in an international study, volunteer, internship or service-

g project ocused on an issue o gender and social justice.

at the IPJ, Borges met with young reugees rom Burma, Iraq,

istan and Somalia who take part in the AjA Project, which

photography-based education to transorm the lives o

ed youth. He also spoke with high school students rom Outside

ns, a San Diego-based youth media literacy program; ARTS (A

to Survive), a non-prot oering art programs or young people

ie challenges; and the IPJ’s WorldLink Program .

hibit was supp orted by the Foundation or Women, Dr.Gloria

t and Glorious Journey Photography, Kevin F.Hughes, CFP ® ,

Woods Scherr, Richard Barton and Elaine Feuer-Barton,

ommunity partner the Museum o Photographic Arts and

onal contributions rom the Jewish Women’s Foundation o

ego, Women Give San Diego and UBS Financial Services Inc.

A gallery visitor reads the stories behind Borges’ photographs

Line makes the case or using peacebuilding tools toresolve grievances in East Asia

8 years old, Awash Fontale, Ethiopia (photo © Phil Borges)

Dee Aker,IPJ deputy director,was one o 32 delegates to a symposium

organized by the World Faiths Development Dialogue,the Berkley

Center or Religion, Peace and World Aairs at Georgetown University

and the U.S.Institute o Peace.Aker repor ted rom the gathering in

Georgetown in July that the ailure to recognize or support women’s

critical roles in ostering greater social cohesion is largely due to men’s

domination in the ormal leadership o many religious traditions.Some

women, she added, experience a double marginaliztion in their

religious and secular peacebuilding eorts.

During the symposium, scholars, religious leaders and lay activists

rom dierent aith traditions discussed how stereotypes and

patriarchal taboos can be devastating actors in the success or ailure

o peacebuilding. In conservative or undamentalist areas where the

backlash against women is oten extremely dangerous, symposium

participants raised questions about the benets o highlighting the

important work o women. “Trauma and stress experienced by women

abused or their religion-based approaches to peace and community

recovery need to be addressed,”Aker emphasized.

The symposium was part o an ongoing dialogue on the subject.

Interviews with d elegates, including Aker, can be ound at

http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/projects/women-religion-and-

peace-experience-perspectives-and-policy-implications

Deputy Director Participates In Women,Religion And Peace Symposium

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