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DATELINE: 13 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, flag outside UN Headquarters
13 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“A New Agenda for Peace places inclusion at the centre of prevention efforts. It focuses on how women’s full, meaningful and effective participation is closely connected to our efforts to prevent conflict and build sustainable peace. Simply put, without half the population participating and deciding, there cannot be sustainable peace. But almost 25 years after the adoption of Security Council resolution 1325 women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in building peace and preventing conflict remains the exception, not the rule.”
4. Wide shot, Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“We must also prioritize inclusion and empowerment of youth. They are a great source of resilience, hope and innovation in every society. To achieve this, we have increasingly deployed new technologies to organize digital consultations with youth constituencies. These dialogues have helped us better understand their views and aspirations, and to reflect them in our work.”
6. Wide shot, Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sérgio França Danese, Chair, Peacebuilding Commission:
“Participation of women in political processes and decision making and their full involvement in prevention strategies should be increased. National prevention strategies to be effective, should seek to incorporate the understanding that women participation can significantly contribute to the maintenance and promotion of peace and security.”
8. Wide shot, Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sérgio França Danese, Chair, Peacebuilding Commission:
“Conflict and social instability have a considerable impact on the opportunities young people will have in their lives, both in economic and political terms. Furthermore, the lack of opportunities and proper social protection to young people make these individuals more vulnerable and exposed to violence. Therefore, the social and economic protection, coupled with their inclusion in peacebuilding processes are necessary steps to ensure that any strategy take into account their needs and ensure that their short and long term interests are represented.”
10. Wide shot, Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Programme Manager, the Pacific Women Mediators Network and International Steering Group Gender Liaison of Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC):
“The WPS agenda is about ending conflict, not about making conflict safer for women. The global study emphasised that as long as harmful gender norms, traditional gender relations and gender inequalities persist, conflicts, crises and violence will continue. Only transforming our approach from militarised security towards prioritising human security with a gender lens can build lasting peace.”
12. Wide shot, end of Council session
13. Wide shot, Ambassadors at the stakeout podium
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Yamazaki Kazuyuki, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Japan:
“As we near the 25th anniversary of resolution 1325, it is crucial to boost women's full equal, meaningful and safe participation and their political, social and economic empowerment to make conflict prevention more effective. We remain fully committed to this effort.”
15. Wide shot, Ambassadors at the stakeout podium
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Yamazaki Kazuyuki, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Japan:
“The world can avoid the human tragedy and devastating consequences of conflicts when we concentrate on preventing them from erupting, preventing their escalation and spread once when they do occur, and preventing their recurrence once they have ended. This is also significantly more cost effective considering the political, socio economic and financial costs.”
17. Wide shot, Ambassadors walk away
Addressing a Security Council open debate on Promoting Conflict Prevention the head of the United Nations Political and Peacebuilding department, Rosemary DiCarlo today (13 Mar) said, “almost 25 years after the adoption of Security Council resolution 1325, women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in building peace and preventing conflict remains the exception, not the rule.”
DiCarlo noted that the Secretary-General António Guterres’s New Agenda for Peace “places inclusion at the centre of prevention efforts” and “focuses on how women’s full, meaningful and effective participation is closely connected to our efforts to prevent conflict and build sustainable peace. “
Simply put, she said, “without half the population participating and deciding, there cannot be sustainable peace.”
DiCarlo also called on Council members to prioritize the inclusion and empowerment of youth, who she said, “are a great source of resilience, hope and innovation in every society.”
To achieve this, she continued, “we have increasingly deployed new technologies to organize digital consultations with youth constituencies.”
The Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, Brazilian Ambassador Sérgio França Danese said, “participation of women in political processes and decision making and their full involvement in prevention strategies should be increased.”
To be effective, França Danese said, national prevention strategies “should seek to incorporate the understanding that women participation can significantly contribute to the maintenance and promotion of peace and security.”
He told the Council that “conflict and social instability have a considerable impact on the opportunities young people will have in their lives, both in economic and political terms.”
Furthermore, the Commission Chair said, “the lack of opportunities and proper social protection to young people make these individuals more vulnerable and exposed to violence.”
He said, “the social and economic protection, coupled with their inclusion in peacebuilding processes are necessary steps to ensure that any strategy take into account their needs and ensure that their short and long term interests are represented.”
Also addressing the Council, the Programme Manager at the Pacific Women Mediators Network and International Steering Group Gender Liaison of Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, said the Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda “is about ending conflict, not about making conflict safer for women.”
Bhagwan Rolls said the 2015 global study on resolution 1325 “emphasised that as long as harmful gender norms, traditional gender relations and gender inequalities persist, conflicts, crises and violence will continue.”
She said, “only transforming our approach from militarised security towards prioritising human security with a gender lens can build lasting peace.”
Outside the Council before the meeting, Japanese Ambassador Yamazaki Kazuyuki, joined by the permanent representatives of Ecuador, France, Guyana, Malta, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States spoke to reporters on WPS Shared Commitments.
He said, “as we near the 25th anniversary of resolution 1325, it is crucial to boost women's full equal, meaningful and safe participation and their political, social and economic empowerment to make conflict prevention more effective. We remain fully committed to this effort.”
After the meeting Kazuyuki, this time flanked by a group of more than 30 ambassadors, spoke again to reporters and said, “the world can avoid the human tragedy and devastating consequences of conflicts when we concentrate on preventing them from erupting, preventing their escalation and spread once when they do occur, and preventing their recurrence once they have ended. This is also significantly more cost effective considering the political, socio economic and financial costs.”
Secretary-General António Guterres’ New Agenda for Peace is framed around the core principles of trust, solidarity, and universality that are foundations of the Charter and of a stable world. It presents twelve concrete sets of proposals for action, in five priority areas.
