Gender equality, and placing diverse women’s voices, experiences and expertise at the centre of our security and peace work supports long term commitment to conflict prevention and sustainable peace.
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Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2021-2031
We need the powerful outcomes generated by the United Nations Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security agenda to assist us as we reconstitute our societies and institutions, and as we resist the temptation to allow conflict to take root in the uncertainty we are all facing.
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Researchers at the University of Queensland have completed Phase 1 of a commissioned study into Australian uniformed and civilian female personnel in peace and security operations.
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ACMC supported the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Civil Society-Government Dialogue, in partnership with DFAT and the Australian Civil Society Coalition for WPS.
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In 2018, the Office for Women in the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) led the whole-of-government development for the second Australian National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security encompassing the period 20
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Nicola Rosenblum
The position of ACMC Director General is provided by the Department of Defence, but serves a whole of government mandate.
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Women, Peace and Security: Reflections from Australian male leaders
Moving past the theoretical by drawing together the real-life experiences, reflections and lessons of male leaders from the Australian Defence Force, the Australian Federal Police and civilians.
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Public servants from the Australian and New Zealand governments, and civil society personnel attended the two-day Civil-Military-Police Interaction Workshop (CMPIW) in Canberra on 18 and 19 June. The aim of the CMPIW was to build capacity and knowledge among mid-career professionals by exposing delegates to a range of tools, exercises and case studies on civil-military-police coordination.
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Syrian Women in Transition Civil-Military Occasional Papers 1/2021
This paper presents a snapshot of what it is like to be a Syrian woman in transition in Jordan or Lebanon. In 2019 we investigated the lives of these women to find out what challenges they face and the conditions, policies and structures that help or hinder their opportunities.