Working with the security sector for inclusive security, justice and gender equality. Launch of the Gender and SSR Toolkit - 21 May 2008.

ISIS Europe and Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) are pleased to announce the launch of the Gender and Security Sector Reform (SSR) Toolkit (www.dcaf.ch/gssrtoolkit/) a comprehensive resource to enhance SSR planning and SSR implementation. 

Developed by DCAF in partnership with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR) and the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) and with wide consultation, the Toolkit provides concrete examples, checklists, training advice and other practical information to integrate gender issues into 12 different practice areas across the security sector. It is a key resource for EU SSR programming.

Speakers include:

Inger Buxton, Crisis Management and Conflict Prevention, European Commission


For any further information, please contact giji.gya(at)isis-europe.org

DCAF-ISIS Europe Joint Report 2008: Investing in Children’s Security Workshop December 2008.
 

Following the workshop ‘Investing in Children's Security’ of the 11th December 2007, where David Nosworthy’s discussion paper ‘Children’s Security in Post-conflict Peacebuilding’ was presented, DCAF and ISIS Europe are pleased to announce the publication of a joint workshop report on the proceedings.

 
The report - with forewords from Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, and Dr. Riina Kionka, Personal Representative of the SG/HR of the EU for Human Rights - includes the workshop summary, recommendations emanating from the discussions, and a full copy of David Nosworthy’s discussion paper.

For hard copies of the studies or further information about the Joint Report please send an email to info@isis-europe.org

The three latest studies arising from the Framework Agreement with the European Parliament have now been published by the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union Policy Department, and are also available here:

• The increasing role of Private Military and Security Companies- by Alyson J. K. Bailes and Caroline Holmqvist.
• Civil-Military Co-Operation and Co-Ordination in the EU and Member States – by Dr Hans-Georg Ehrhart.
• Pooling of EU Member States Assets in the Implementation of ESDP - Jean-Pierre Maulny and Fabio Liberti.

For hard copies of the studies or further information about the Policy Department please send an email to xp-poldep@europarl.europa.eu

The New Arms Race and its Alternatives  2008-06-12

Host: Angelika Beer, MEP

Opening remarks: Angelika Beer, MEP

Chair: Giji Gya, ISIS Europe

Speakers:

PD Dr Andreas Heinemann-Gruder, Senior Researcher as the Bonn International Centre for Conversion 
Prof. Dr Harald Muller, Director of the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt
Prof. Dr Gotz Neuneck, Leader of the interdisciplinary working group on disarmament, arms control and risk technologies, Hamburg Institute for Security and Peace 

Three speakers from leading research institutes in Germany present their major findings and policy proposals on how best the EU and NATO can both preserve international arms control regimes and develop new arms control and disarmament initiatives.

Preventing an Iranian Bomb: The Urgent Need to Change Strategy  2007-11-27

Host: André Brie, MEP

Opening remarks: André Brie, MEP

Chair: Dr Stephen Pulinger, ISIS Europe

Speakers:

Bernd W. Kubbig, Senior Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Jerry Sommer, Research Associate at the Bonn International Center for Conversion

Discussants:

Stephen Pullinger, Executive Director, ISIS Europe

Two speakers from leading research institutes in Germany presented their particular perspectives on how best to prevent the development of an Iranian Bomb. They contest that sanctions have failed to change Teheran’s policies, and now is the time to put forward an alternative approach.