Imagine Forum took place on 10 October in Reykjavik. Practitioners and academics met for a day in Reykjavik for the 8th iteration of the Imagine Forum. The day was packed with panel debates, discussing how to keep dialogue going, advance gender equality and women’s leadership in peacebuilding and discussed ongoing conflict contexts including, Ukraine, the Middle East, Sudan, Afghanistan and Myanmar.
Distinguished speakers included amongst others Madam Bineta Diop, Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Women, Peace, and Security, Miriam Coronel Ferrer, Southeast Asian Women Peace Mediators, Chris Coulter, Deputy Executive Director of the Berghof Foundation, and Svitlana Zalishchuck, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine on European and Euro-Atlantic integration and former member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
PRIO Deputy Director Torunn L. Tryggestad participated an afternoon panel entitled “Charting the Path Forward: Evaluating Two Decades of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) under UN Resolution 1325”. Her panel included Fawzia Koofi, President of the board for Women for Afghanistan (WFA), Annick Wibben, Anna Lindh Professor of Gender, Peace and Security at the Swedish Defense University and Leandra Bias, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern. The panel addressed the recent backlash against the WPS agenda amidst ongoing wars and conflicts. They also discussed several achievements of the WPS agenda since the landmark resolution 1325.
NWM members from all five chapters were invited to participate the Imagine Forum to discuss topics of mediation, dialogue and WPS ahead of their Annual meeting 11. October.
The full program can be found here.
