Missing Peace Global Symposium: Making Policy Count to End Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Progress and Barriers

The past decade has brought impressive growth in research, policy and practice focused on conflict-related sexual violence. Yet implementation of key policies remains inconsistent in many areas. On November 1, experts at USIP shared their perspectives on areas of progress, implementation challenges and persistent knowledge gaps.

Welcome & Keynote Remarks

• Lise Grande, welcoming remarks 
  President, U.S. Institute of Peace
• The Honorable Pramila Patten, keynote remarks
  U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
• Ambassador Geeta Rao Gupta, keynote remarks
  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State

Panel Discussion

• Tonderai Chikuhwa, Senior Policy Advisor, U.N. Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
• Kolbassia Haoussou, Director of Survivor Empowerment, Freedom from Torture and Survivor Champion, U.K. Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative
• Ambassador Beth Van Schaack, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
• Margot Wallström, Former U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
• Kim Thuy Seelinger, co-moderator
  Senior Coordinator for Gender-Based Crimes and Crimes Against Children, International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor and Research Associate Professor and Director, Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration, Washington University in St. Louis
• Kathleen Kuehnast, co-moderator
  Director, Women, Peace and Security, U.S. Institute of Peace

For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.usip.org/events/missing-peace-global-symposium-conflict-related-sexual-violence