CentreLGS Annual Lecture 2008

Are Women Peaceful?
Reflections on the role of women in peace building.

A lecture by Hilary Charlesworth

15th May 2008 @ University of Westminster

Women have played an important part in peacebuilding in many parts of the
world. This lecture will consider the roles women have taken in
peacebuilding in Bougainville, Timor-Leste and the Solomons in particular
and the problems they face in these 'post-conflict' societies. It will use
these examples to reflect on the way women, peace and security are
constructed more generally in the international sphere.

Hilary Charlesworth is a Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice, ANU. She also holds an appointment as Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the Faculty of Law, ANU.

She has held visiting appointments at Washington & Lee School of Law, Harvard Law School, NYU Global Law School and as Wayne Morse Professor at the University of Oregon.

Her research is in international law, including feminist thinking in the discipline, and human rights law at the national and international levels. She is joint winner (with Christine Chinkin) of the American Society of International Law's 2006 Goler T Butcher  Medal in recognition of outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law.