International Peace Update articles from March 2004

International Peace Update archives from March 2004

Women define democracy.(Thoughts on Democracy)
March 22, 2004... This issue focuses on "democracy" and its different definitions. Lately, the term is being used for countries recently occupied--such as Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq and Palestine--by the only superpower and its allies. Democracy is obviously not a...

Democratic and Jewish--is it possible?(Thoughts on Democracy)
March 22, 2004... A public debate is raging in Israel. Sometimes it's an orderly discussion organized through a university; but mostly, it's a disorganized, untidy debate where everyone and anyone throws around the concepts: 'democracy,' 'anti-democratic,'...

Democracy as duty.(Thoughts on Democracy)
March 22, 2004... We have all heard about the democracy in Athens under Socrates in year 2: and we all know that this is a major historical lie. Athens never was a democracy in the sense of "government by the people for the people". Only approximately 10% of the...

Latin American elite evaluate democracy.(Thoughts on Democracy)
March 22, 2004... In a series of polls by the University of Miami School of Business Administration and Zogby International, more than 500 "opinion leaders" in six Latin American countries (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela) were asked to...

Democracy in Aotearoa/New Zealand.(Thoughts on Democracy)
March 22, 2004... Treaty of Waitangi There is a huge challenge for us here in Aotearoa as far as questions of democracy are concerned. A few years after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between the indigenous people (Maori) and the representative of...

Challenges of democracy.(Thoughts on Democracy)
March 22, 2004... Democracy is a concept that is not easily defined, nor is it set in concrete. Indeed, from its early birth as a political system in Athens more than 2500 years ago, it has been a developing concept, thrusting its tentacles wider and wider,...

Human security, women and disarmament: International Women's Day Seminar (Geneva, 10-11 March 2004).(Women on Disarmament)
March 22, 2004... Since 1983, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has been privileged to organize a seminar on disarmament on International Women's Day with the support of other NGOs focusing on peace. This year's speakers included the Egyptian...

The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in Cyprus (Zed Books, Feb. 2004).(New Publication)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Cynthia Cockburn, member of WILPF London and Women in Black Against War activist With Cyprus joining the European Union in 2004, the pressure is on political leaders to resolve forty years of conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish...

Agreed Conclusions at the forty-eighth Session of the CSW: PeaceWomen project, WILPF UN/New York.(Conclusions at CSW)
March 22, 2004... On 12 March 2004, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) adopted its Agreed Conclusions on women's equal participation in conflict prevention, management and resolution and post-conflict peace-building. Concluding its two week-long 48th...

Politics for Peace.(Conclusions at CSW)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... In the year 2002, there were local and national elections in the Netherlands. The political workgroup Women for Peace and the WILPF Dutch Section wanted to get the item PEACE on the agenda and therefore wrote a brochure entitled Politics for...

Linkages between democracy and the International WILPF programme.(Thoughts on Democracy)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom )
March 22, 2004... For us in Aotearoa and the Pacific the issue is to balance the rights that democracy should provide and the rights of the indigenous peoples. The issues that we are committed to concentrate on are: Racial justice, racism and the rights of...

Report from WILPF UN/New York.(WILPF New York)
March 22, 2004... The last three months in the United Nations office (UNO) of WILPF have been, as usual, extraordinarily busy. Our four person staff (Kara, Rhianna, Sarah and Susi) along with the assistance of several interns (Ciara, Yujin, Julika, Katya,...

WILPF International/Geneva.(WILPF Geneva)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
March 22, 2004... WILPF Geneva continues to be in transition while the organization gets its staff in place to implement its policies, programmes and projects. The office is in the process of completing this task to enable it to work at full capacity. Meanwhile,...

Another World Is Possible.(World Social Forum)
March 22, 2004... After three weeks of traveling in the south of India, I wasn't sure that heading to Mumbai to attend the World Social Forum--with 100,000 participants, hundreds of workshops, seminars, stalls and plenaries, in a city of 16 million and sleeping...

Water * Women * Peace.(WILPF Congress)
March 22, 2004... Water, Women and Peace is the major theme of the 28th Session of the WILPF International Congress (2 to 8 August 2004). It encompasses the contents of the Congress and future WILPF work. The Congress is a very important event, a political...

Invest in caring not killing.(Women in Action)
March 22, 2004... What does protesting against war have to do with campaigning for recognition and wages for all the unpaid work women do? They may, at first, seem like separate issues. However, their connection is clearly established through the demands and...

Prize for women's creativity in rural life 2003.(Women's World Summit Foundation)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... On Wednesday 15 October 2003, at a special ceremony in Geneva moderated by Elly Pradervand (Executive Director of Women's World Summit Foundation) and Ilse Moser (WWSF-Prize Programme Coordinator), five women laureates were honored for their...

International Peace Woman Award 2004.(Peace Woman 2004)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... The international office in Geneva hosted a small party to mark WILPF's 89th birthday. Representatives of several NGOs and women's organizations attended the celebration held on April 28, 2004. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At this event,...

World Social Forum in Mumbai: resistance or reform.(Peace Woman 2004)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... What happens in an international forum where a thousand voices are raised by hundreds of civil society organizations? What comes out of a large gathering of over a hundred thousand activists who spell out their visions of an alternative world...