GLPF[INVITATION]Thursday 29 March-9:30am-11:30am-Emerging Women's Leadership in the Great Lakes Region

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Emerging Women’s Leadership
in the Great Lakes Region

Thursday 29th March
  9:30am - 11:30am

Johns Hopkins SAIS
Nitze Building, Kenney Auditorium
1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20036

Forum Details:

The armed conflicts that have swept through the Great Lakes Region have taken a particular toll on the region’s women. Yet, in recent years, women across the region have come to play an increasingly prominent role in public life as opinion leaders and decision-makers. Within communities, within governments, and within civil society, women are taking on new leadership roles. In honor of Women’s History Month, we invite you to a special Great Lakes Policy Forum that will explore how the role of women in the Great Lakes Region is changing and discuss the challenges that remain.


Speakers:

Veronica Isala Eragu Bichetero
Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, October 2011 - April 2012, USIP

Nita Evele
Co-Chair of Congo Global Action

Moderator:

Mvemba Phezo Dizolele
Writer, foreign policy analyst and independent journalist

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Veronica Isala Eragu Bichetero is a lawyer and an advocate of the Courts of Judicature of Uganda. She is a senior consultant with EDG Venture Consult and is deeply involved in women's rights, children's rights, vulnerable person's rights, conflict resolution and peace-building in Africa. Bichetero currently works with the World Bank as Gender and Conflict Advisor, focusing on a special program, Learning on Gender in Conflict Affected Areas in Africa (LOGICA) Trust Fund. Veronica also does consultancies in Human Rights, Governance and Rule of Law for UNDP and IDLO. Her project focuses on promoting women's participation in conflict resolution and peace-building in the Great Lakes Region. Bichetero will share her personal experiences as an observer, negotiator and mediator at the local and national level during the Ugandan conflicts, and at the regional level where she has implemented best practices in developing women's substantive participation in mediation in Africa. She will write about the challenges to women's participation in peace-building and practices that promote women's involvement in peace-building processes. She will also compile a comprehensive data-bank of women involved, or with the potential to be involved, in peace-making to improve the network of female mediators in the Great Lakes Region and the whole of Africa. Bichetero previously held an international position with UNICEF and served as Commissioner at the Uganda Human Rights Commission, a national human rights institution in Uganda. Her experience at the negotiation table and peace-making forum dates back to 1985 when she contributed at the Government of Uganda peace talks with the National Resistance Army/Movement (NRA/M) as a researcher on the Government team. In 1999, she was in Lome, Togo at the peace negotiations between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front as the UNICEF representative, advocating for the early release of women and children. From 2006 to more recently she was involved in the Juba peace process between Government of Uganda and Lord's Resistance Army, first as a representative of the Human Rights Commission and later at the mediation table providing technical expertise and advice. Bichetro has worked in Juba supporting the Government of Southern Sudan on post-conflict issues, especially the empowerment of women and human rights. She participated as a technical expert in the April 2010 Sudanese elections and the South Sudan Referendum.

Mvemba Phezo Dizolele is a writer, foreign policy analyst and independent journalist. Dizolele is the Peter J. Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University Hoover Institution. He is the author of a forthcoming biography: Mobutu: the Rise and Fall of the Leopard King (Random House UK). His analyses have been published in the Journal of Democracy, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, Forbes, St Louis Post-Dispatch and other outlets. A frequent commentator on African affairs, he has been a guest analyst on PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria, NPR's On Point and the Diane Rehm Show, the BBC World News, Al Jazeera and the Voice of America. Dizolele was a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and covered the 2006 historic elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With the Pulitzer Center, he produced Congo’s Bloody Coltan, a documentary report on the relation between the Congo conflict and the scramble for mineral resources. He served as an election monitor with the Carter Center in the run-off between Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba. He was also embedded with United Nations peacekeepers in Congo's war-torn Ituri and South Kivu provinces as a reporter. He holds an International Master of Business Administration and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French from Southern Utah University. Dizolele served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve for eight years. He is fluent in French, Norwegian, Spanish, Swahili, Kikongo and Lingala, and is proficient in Danish and Swedish.

 

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