Join the event here: https://zoom.us/j/92694113735

We warmly invite you to join a virtual panel discussion co-hosted by Conciliation Resources and Saferworld on our new Facilitation guide: gender-sensitive conflict analysis to mark the 20th anniversary of Security Council Resolution 1325. This webinar will launch the new guide and provide clear examples of why this approach is critical for effective and strategic policy and programming.

This event is co-hosted by Conciliation Resources and Saferworld who have led international practice on gender-sensitive conflict analysis through developing and applying tools to ensure that peacebuilding practice is at minimum gender sensitive, moving towards gender-responsive and gender-transformative – where our work addresses the underlying structural causes and factors of gender inequality.

The guide is available for download at: https://www.c-r.org/learning-hub/gender-sensitive-conflict-analysis-facilitators-guide

Speakers:

• Joelle Jenny, Director, Joint Funds Unit, Cabinet Secretariat, UK Government
• Hesta Groenewald, independent consultant (guide co-author)
• Awfa Al Naami, Yemen Country Manager, Saferworld
• Stefania Minervino, Policy Officer, European Commission (DG DEVCO)
• Janet Adama Mohammed, Programme Director for West Africa, Conciliation Resources
• Dr Sophia Close, Senior Adviser Gender and Peacebuilding, Conciliation Resources (moderator and guide co-author)
• Diana Trimiño Mora, Head of Programme Support and Senior Gender Adviser, Saferworld (moderator and guide co-author)
• Jonathan Cohen, Executive Director, Conciliation Resources
• Paul Murphy, Executive Director, Saferworld

Speaker biographies:

Awfa Al Naami

Awfa is Saferworld’s Yemen Country Manager and has a strong gender background, having joined the organisation in 2016 as a Gender Project Manager. Before she joined Saferworld, she was a Gender Advisor for the National Foundation for Development and Humanitarian Response (NFDHR), where she also had a Food, Security and Livelihoods Coordinator role. She has also worked on gender-related projects with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Awfa has a master's degree in Business Administration. In all her roles and experiences, from volunteering in school medical teams, adult literacy activities, and teaching Japanese for beginners, she’s always been searching for ways to connect with people and learn from their experiences and perspectives.

Diana Trimiño Mora

Diana is the Head of Programme Support and Learning and Senior Gender Adviser at Saferworld. She has over 17 years of experience working on issues around women’s and human rights, international law, migration and refugee protection and women’s protection and empowerment in humanitarian and conflict-affected settings. Before joining Saferworld, Diana worked for the International Rescue Committee, the University of London’s Refugee Law Initiative, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and International Organization for Migration, and a number of women’s and human rights organisations in the Americas, including the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.

Hesta Groenewald

Hesta has 20 years’ experience in conflict, peacebuilding and gender work. She has particular expertise on implementing conflict-sensitive approaches and on incorporating gender into conflict analysis and peacebuilding. She previously worked for the international peacebuilding NGO, Saferworld, in a variety of roles, including as Conflict Adviser, Regional Head of Programmes (Uganda and the Sudans), and global Head of Research and Programme Support. Since January 2019, she is an independent consultant and Associate Consultant with the PeaceNexus Foundation, with a particular focus on conflict sensitivity, gender, conservation and environment.

Janet Adama Mohammed

Janet leads Conciliation Resources' peacebuilding work across West Africa, working with groups often excluded from formal peace processes including women and young people. She has more than 25 years’ experience of work on governance, peace and security issues in the region. She has extensive experience working with local communities, security agencies, and government structures at national and decentralised levels. She has also influenced several peacebuilding and policy dialogues in the region.

Joelle Jenny

Joelle Jenny is Director of the Joint Funds Unit in the Cabinet Secretariat, which oversees the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund and the Prosperity Fund. Joelle has spent her career at the nexus between international security, diplomacy, and development. Since joining Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) in 2004 she has worked for the Department for International Development (now the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), the Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office and held positions at the UK Mission to the United Nations; and at the European Union (EU) External Action Service as Security Policy Director (on loan from HMG), where she led EU international engagement on outer space, cyber security, arms control, counter-terrorism, conflict resolution and sanctions. Before joining HMG she worked for NATO, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss Foreign Ministry. She has lived and worked in conflict-affected countries in Africa, Asia, the Balkans and the Middle East. Between 2016 and 2018, Joelle took a two-year sabbatical as a Fellow at Harvard to research cyber security and emerging tech’s impacts on international peace and security.

Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan was appointed Executive Director of Conciliation Resources in May 2016. He joined Conciliation Resources in 1997 and developed the Caucasus programme focusing on dialogue and confidence building initiatives to promote peacebuilding in the Caucasus. In September 2008 he became Director of Programmes overseeing all Conciliation Resources’ regional programmes. Previously he served as Deputy Director of the Foundation on Inter-Ethnic Relations in The Hague, working with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. In 2018 Jonathan became Chair of the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO). He has taught peace and conflict studies and has degrees from the universities of Bristol, London and Oxford. In 2007 he was awarded an OBE by the British Government for services to conflict prevention and conflict resolution in the Caucasus.

Paul Murphy

Paul Murphy is the Executive Director at Saferworld, where he oversees the organisation's development and growth as well as operations and programmes. After joining as Head of Europe and Central Asia in 2008, he became Director of Programmes and then Executive Director in 2011. For 20 years, Paul worked across Africa for a range of organisations, including for the United Nations. Most recently, he was director of Pact’s country programme in Sudan. Paul’s specialty is in conflict prevention and post-conflict recovery, with a focus on the Sudans and the Horn of Africa region.

Sophia Close

Sophia is the Senior Adviser for gender and peacebuilding at Conciliation Resources. She leads global policy engagement on gender and inclusion and supports Conciliation Resources’ staff and partner organisations to integrate gender-sensitivity across all aspects of their peacebuilding work. Sophia completed her PhD at the Australian National University in 2016.

Stefania Minervino

Stefania has been working with DG DEVCO as a Policy Officer on resilience, conflict prevention and peacebuilding with Unit B2, since November 2016. She is the focal point for conflict analysis and conflict sensitivity, the EU conflict Early Warning System and Women, Peace and Security. She has participated to several missions on conflict prevention, conflict analysis and conflict sensitivity in support of EU delegations in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa and Latin America. She is a member of the EU Task Force on WPS. Stefania has worked in human rights and peacebuilding since the 1990s, for example as a Human Rights and Indigenous Affairs Observer in Guatemala with the UN Peacebuilding mission (MINUGUA) in the verification of the Peace Accords’ implementation, while recently worked with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in Ireland, focussing on projects related to the equality and human rights mainstreaming funded under the European Social Fund.