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The African Women Committee on Peace and Development (AWCPD)

  • Country:
    Ethiopia

  • Organization Type:
    Advocacy Organization

  • Organization Focus:
    Gender Issues

  • Geographical Focus:
    Africa

  • URL:
    www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/documents/0401communique.htm

  • Contact Name:
    Madam Hiroute Guebre Sellassie

  • Address:
    P.O. Box 3001 Addis Ababa

  • Phone Number:
    +(251) 1 44 5202
  • Email address:
    awcpd.uneca@un.org

  • Description:
    The African Women Committee on Peace and Development (AWCPD) was established in 1998 to increase the effective participation of women in peace and development processes on the African continent.

  • Objective:
    The committee seeks to support the networking of women peace-building mechanisms in Africa and to identify and seek articulate ways and means of addressing women-specific experiences of conflict. The committee embraces as its guiding principle the view that war cannot be an option for resolving conflict.

  • Comments:
    Building an African women agenda for peace and networking with African women peace organizations: AWCPD co-organised together with UNESCO the Pan-African Women Conference on a Culture of Peace which was held in Zanzibar (May 1999). The Conference enabled the Committee to dialogue and share its vision with several peace organizations and with over three hundred women from all over Africa and to build an African Women Peace Agenda, "The Zanzibar Agenda for Peace".

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  • Office Type:
    HQ
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