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Forging New Alliances

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday started with Forging New Alliances with 5 experts in 4sections: Men against violence against women; Men — Women Alliances; UN, NGOs, and Governments Alliance; and Peace building. After 10minute presentations, partly Power points, the participants moved to coffee and Working Groups.

Men against violence against women

Mr. Chris Green, White Ribbon Campaign

Initiator UK

Executive Director of the White Ribbon Campaign (UK).

Email: info@whiteribboncampaign.co.uk

1980’s member of the Achilles Heel Magazine Collective and reporter for the Daphne Toolkit

Project developing a database of all the anti-domestic violence projects funded

through the Daphne programme.

2005-2008 member of the Council of Europe Task Force to combat Violence against Women,

and a member of the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance.

2005 Mens Studies Association, 17th Annual Meeting: Georgia State University, Atlanta,

August.

2006 Lectures and Workshops

Freedom Programme National Assembly , Birkenhead, Corporate Alliance against

Domestic Violence: Involving Sporting organizations KPMG, London Council of Europe

Congress Committee on Social Cohesion, Gardone, Italy,

Changing Mens Behaviour: Ending Domestic Violence

London “Getting Away with it,” Tower Hamlets DV Forum

Building a Culture with Men who don’t condone violence

European Society of Family Relations

Behind Closed Doors The Hidden Areas of Substance Misuse

Grampian Regional Health Authority

Knowle West Domestic Abuse Project, Bristol

2007 awarded title Ultimate Man by Cosmopolitan Magazine for his work on anti violence

strategies, and has twice been recognized by invitations to receptions at Number 10,

Downing Street.

2007 National Association of Women’s Organisations, European Regional Consultation with

UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, London

Changing Men’s Behaviour: the Next Steps, “Think Tank” CPI,

Council of Europe Congress, Glasgow Rape Crisis Conference

Fem 07, Sheffield

Expert Speaker Council of Europe Regional Seminar Zagreb

2008 Lectured at the Inter Parliamentary Union, Swedish Parliament.

Men — Women Alliance

Vice-President—Unité & Diversité, Girls@Work, France

UN, NGOs, and Governments Alliance

Ms Carolyn Handschin, WFWPI

Deputy Director of the Office for United Nations Relations for Women’s Federation for World

Peace International (WFWPI); and Director of the UN Office of UPF/IIFWP in Geneva.

Since 1994, Permanent representative of these organizations at the UN in Geneva,

contributing to the work of the Human Rights Commission (now Council): making

regular interventions in the area of education for peace, governance and women,

and peace-building.

Secretary of the UN NGO Committee on the Status of Women and an active member of the

Working Groups on “Peace” and “Human Rights Education and Learning“ at the

United Nations in Geneva; contributes to the task forces on “Disarmament” and

“Culture of Peace”, the latter of which she chaired.

Co-founder and vice-President of the Geneva Interfaith and Intercultural Alliance and

currently coordinating its “Youth Council” Model-UN program.

Sine 2001, Middle Eastern women’s role in peacemaking conference organizer with the issues:

women’s leadership, disarmament and education for a culture of peace.

Journalist and writer: contributed to the UNESCO on line encyclopaedia EOLSS.

Coordinated youth projects and women’s training seminars and considers a large part of her

capacity for lobbying for peace- related issues to her daily efforts to build a peacepromoting

family with her husband and 7 children.

Peace building

Peace meetings/UN Peace Day

Patricia Earle, WFWP-UK Vice President

Born in Belgium

Since 1996 WFWP representative Birmingham/Midlands region, UK.

2009 Vice President WFWP UK.

1993 established a Women’s Peace Group: meetings on a monthly / bi-monthly basis with

400 to 500 women; representing all faiths, races and ethnic backgrounds, such that

the group has become recognised as the foremost women’s group in the region, at

the ‘cutting edge’ of interfaith and peace activities by the UK Interfaith Network.

2002 organised visiting groups of women to the Holy Land. 60 women participated, and

these visits gave way to several practical projects.

Recently, 2 medical projects: medical personnel to Israel and the West Bank from

Birmingham to assist the Palestinian Health Authority with training and practical help.

Resource pool: women speakers, activists, for conferences and various meetings.

Co-Founder of the Interfaith Children’s Home in India.

2003 made an honorary Non-Resident Indian, for services rendered to India, and received

the Jewel of India, ‘Hind Rattan’, award from the former President of India.

2004 Buckingham Palace in London, and delivered a pictorial report of all the Peace

Group’s activities to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Pharmacist, and is a mother of 4 children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elisabeth Riedl, WFWPI Board Member

 Born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, UK

WFWPI Secretary General Europe, International Affairs:

WFWPI UN Main Representative, Vienna

2009 WFWP Austria Secretary General

Dignity Conference in Paris coordinator

2009 Dignity Project website www.livingdignity.eu

Since 2002 Organise the European WFWPI Delegation to conferences

2007 Organised and participated in the Delegation to WFWPI Conference in Korea.

2005 - 2009Organizer UN World Peace Day in Salzburg together with other organisations:

Board member of the committee: Austrian Decade of Peace and Non-violence

for the children of the world. Developing Culture of Peace activities in Salzburg,

together with Pax Christi and several other organisations.

Since 2002 Member of the Poverty conference in Salzburg and also on the Board.

Since 2001 January: WFWPI NGO rep. in Vienna, Austria; attends Peace Committee, CSW,

Ageing; Crime. Appointed as WFWPI Signatory for NGO Statements at the UN

2005: WFWP Salzburg – official association registered in May.

2005: Received an Award from the UNWG for Mother and children centre in Albania. Also

held charity concert with a singing Canadian Doctor from Toronto, Dr. Frazer

2005: Main WFWPI UN Representative in Vienna Conference Secretary and all office duties

including documentation and visas for WFWPI participants to the September cosponsored

forum with the Peace Committee in Vienna, UN Forum on Drugs and Transnational

Crime, 2004: Presented at WANGO Conference in Hungary on ‘Healing a

Hurting World’

2003: WFWP Salzburg / Austria; Working on a Medical Project for Albania

WFWP Europe; Development of documentation and communication, a WFWP Europe

website : www.womenaspeacemakers.org

March: Project on the WFWP European 10 year history; compiled the history from 17 nations in

east and west.

2001: WFWP Europe International Liaison- co-ordination

WFWP Austria chapter Vice President.

Salzburg Poverty Conference: member of coordination team and the official committee.

2000: Appointed to WFWPI Board as Europe Secretary General for International Relations

1999 June: Women’s Worlds Conference in Tromse, Norway; ‘The Bridge of Peace – a Modern

Technology’.

1998/1999: Promoted the UN Culture of Peace through WFWP Europe network by gathering

signatures

Founded 1998: WFWP European online coordination through Networking: Established an Email

group with emphasis on communication

1998-2000 November: WFWP German President

1997 /98: Forum on Violence against Women, (encompassing many organizations

and NGO’s and the Justice department in Munich) represented WFWP local branch.

1995: visited UNO conference on the Status on Women in Peking