GENDER & PEACE KEEPING TRAINING COURSE
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Today, I took my children to the place I grew up, wept as I drove through my neighbourhood, and hoped my child wouldn't have to endure such pain.
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We need to reexamine our assumptions about gender and culture. Gender influences economics, politics, social interactions, and individual needs. It varies over time and across cultures. It is an active force in the formation of the family, the community, and the nation. We need to understand that our actions as participants in PSOs must be consistent not only with our own mandates and initiatives, but also with the realities of the affected culture if we are to succeed.

Websites of Interest

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) http://www.unifem.org/

UN Women Watch http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

Brahimi Report http://www.un.org/peace/reports/peace_operations/

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security (pdf). http://ods-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N00/720/18/PDF/N0072018.pdf?OpenElement

G8 Roma Initiative on Strengthening the Role of Women in Conflict Prevention http://www.womenwagingpeace.net/content/articles/G8ForeignMinistersStatement.pdf

United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/home_bottom.htm

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights http://www.unhchr.ch/

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia http://www.un.org/icty/index.html

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda http://www.ictr.org/

The International Criminal Court http://www.un.org/law/icc/index.html

The Coalition for an International Criminal Court http://www.iccnow.org

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home

Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict (United Nations) http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) http://www.reliefweb.int/ocha_ol/index.html

Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) -- Gender Equality http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/equality

United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID) http://www.dfid.gov.uk/

Bejing Declaration and Platform for Action http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) -- Gender and Political Participation http://www.idea.int/gender/index.htm

CANADEM http://www.canadem.ca

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Women and War Project http://www.icrc.org/eng/women

The Commonwealth Secretariat -- Gender and Development http://www.thecommonwealth.org/gender/

International Alert -- Women Building Peace Campaign http://www.womenbuildingpeace.org

The Lester B. Pearson International Peacekeeping Training Centre http://www.peaceoperations.org/

Global Issues http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/foreign_policy/global_issues/menu-en.asp

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