Missing Peace Global Symposium: Survivor-Centered Approaches to Address Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Conflict-related sexual violence aims to dehumanize survivors through calculated acts of cruelty to render survivors and their communities powerless. Survivor-centered approaches to policy, programming and research are expanding, yet there is a need for a clearer understanding of what a survivor-centered approach to addressing conflict-related sexual violence means and how to implement it.

Video Remarks

• Duchess of Edinburgh Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones, Champion of Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Panel Discussion

• Artemis Akbary, Founder and Executive Director, Afghanistan LGBTIQ+ Organization
• Lejla Damon, Member, Forgotten Children of War Association, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Jayne Flemming, Director, International Refugee Program, Reed Smith LLP
• Nadine Tunasi, Coordinator, Survivor Speak Out, Freedom from Torture and Survivor Champion, U.K. Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative
• Kolbassia Haoussou, Director, Survivor Empowerment, Freedom from Torture and Survivor Champion, U.K. Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative
• Kim Thuy Seelinger, 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

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