a lecture by Hilary Charlesworth chaired by Zoe Pearson, Keele University .

Abstract; Women have played an important part in peacebuilding in many parts of the world. This lecture will consider the roles women have taken in peacebuilding in Bougainville, Timor-Leste and the Solomons in particular and the problems they face in these 'post-conflict' societies. It will use these examples to reflect on the way women, peace and security are constructed more generally in the international sphere.

Hilary Charlesworth is a Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice, ANU. She also holds an appointment as Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the Faculty of Law, ANU. She has held visiting appointments at Washington & Lee School of Law, Harvard Law School, NYU Global Law School and as Wayne Morse Professor at the University of Oregon. Her research is in international law, including feminist thinking in the discipline, and human rights law at the national and international levels. She is joint winner (with Christine Chinkin) of the American Society of International Law's 2006 Goler T Butcher Medal in recognition of outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law. .

6.30pm on Thursday 15th May 2008
University of Westminster, London.
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