On day two of our WPS Institutionalization and Operationalization workshop at the IADC, we kicked off with a panel on ‘Advancing Women’s Meaningful Participation’ moderated by NDU’s Dr. Fabiana Perera with Ms. Ariela Blatter, President and CEO at WIIS, Ms. Antonieta Rico, Women, Peace and Security advisor at the US Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute and Mr. Andre Agraviador, Senior Military Officer at the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues in the US State Department.
The afternoon panel discussed ‘Setting Conditions to Advance WPS Operationally and Institutionally’ with Dr. Lauren Mackenzie, Marine Corps University’s Professor of Military Cross-Cultural Competence and co-lead for the Women, Peace and Security Scholars Program; Ms. Brenda Oppermann, currently an Associate Professor in the College of Leadership and Ethics at the U.S. Naval War College, specializing in WPS, stability operations, organizational change and informal justice; and Mr. Nicholas Tomb, the Functional Co-Lead for Women, Peace and Security at the Institute for Security Governance.
Facilitated working groups focused on specific ways to advance women’s meaningful participation to institutionalize and operationalize the WPS Agenda in their respective countries.

Organization of American States (OAS)
Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA)
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
National Defense University
Marine Corps University
Naval War College

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