Programme: National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security

Day one:	Taking stock of Action Plans on women, peace and security
9:30 – 10:00	Introduction and welcome by Dr Sahla Aroussi (CTPSR, Coventry University) and Dr Melanie Hoewer (IBIS, UCD).
10:00 - 10: 15	Keynote address Mr Michael Gaul, NATO SPS Programme
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee
10:30 – 12:00	Session One: National experiences of NAPs: The Irish and The UK experience
	Ms Rosy Cave, UK Stabilisation Unit: “The UK strategy on women, peace and security”.
	Ms Bronagh Hinds,DemocraShe: “Women, peace and Security in Northern Ireland”
	Commander Eoghan McDermott, the Irish Military: “NAPs implementation and the Irish military”.
	Ms Nora Owen, Independent Chair of the Oversight Group for hte National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security: “The Irish experience with NAPs”.
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13: 00 – 14:30	Session Two: National experiences of NAPs: Finland, Sweden and Germany and Estonia
	Ms Sara Haapalanein, “Finland's National Action Plan on 1325 - Delivering on Lofty Goals?”
	Ms Annika Schabbauer, Sweden Operation 1325 “The Swedish experience with NAP”
	Mr Thomas Rohland, “Germany’s national experience with NAP”
	MsKersti Siilivask, “Estonia national action plan for the implementation of resolution 1325”.
14: 30- 14:45	Coffee
14:45- 15:45	Session Three: International Organisations’ perspective (NATO, and UN Women).
	Ms Svanhvit Adalsteins, NATO, “UNSCR 1325 at NATO: The glass half full; the glass half empty”.
	Ms Mireille Affa’a Mindzie, Policy Specialist, Peace and Security Section UN Women.
	Session Five: Roundtable discussion: Sharing the know-how: best practices in developing, revising and implementing NAPs
19:00	Dinner

Day Two:	Critical reflections on NAPs and strategies for the future
9:30- 10:30	Session One: NAPs in context
	Professor Aisling Swaine: “Where have we come from, and where are we going to? Challenges and Opportunities in the Reliance on NAPs to take forward the WPS Agenda”.
	Dr Catherine O’Rourke: “A Critical Friend? Exploring the CEDAW Committee's role in NAP development, monitoring and enforcement”.
10:30- 10: 45	Coffee
10:45- 12:15	Session Two: Lessons from the field
	Dr Laura Davis: “From a place at the table to participation: the opportunities and constraints of the 1325 framework in the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
	Dr Helen Basini, “Local ownership and NAPs in Sierra Leone and Liberia”.
	Dr Anja Ebnöther: “The opportunities and challenges of NAPs: experiences of working on gender and security sector reform in West Africa”.
	Dr Maria Adriana Deiana. "paradoxes of Inclusion: Women, Peace and Security in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina
12:15- 13:15	Lunch
13:15 - 14:45	Session Three: Roundtable discussion: National Action Plans: strategies for the future
14:45- 15:15	Concluding discussion
15:15	Farewell drinks