Roles of Women in Preventing and Responding to Terrorism and Violent Extremism
The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations and the Global Center on Cooperative Security cordially invites you to a briefing to explore the roles of women in preventing and responding to terrorism and violent extremism, and advancing integrated approaches to implementing Security Council Resolution 2242.
Peace and security actors are increasingly focused on the roles of women in both supporting and preventing violent extremism. The Security Council, through various resolutions, called for increased attention on the roles of women in promoting international peace and security. For example, Resolution 2129 urged the inclusion of women, peace and security (WPS) issues in all relevant work of the Council and Resolution 2178 called on member states to strengthen engagement with civil society, women and youth to prevent the outflow of foreign terrorist fighters. Recently, Resolution 2242 called for further integration of various peace and security agendas – WPS, counter-terrorism, and preventing violent extremism (PVE).
This briefing will bring together member state representative and civil society experts to explore practical dimensions of integrating a gender dimension into national and UN efforts to empower women and address terrorism and violent extremism. It will also allow for a discussion of key highlights from a workshop to be held on the previous day by the Global Center on Cooperative Security, in partnership with The Institute for Inclusive Security, undertaken with support from the Permanent Mission of Australia.
For more information and registration, check the invitation.
