WPS Webinar: Gender-Based Violence, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence & Sexual Exploitation & Abuse
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Women, Peace, and Security: Gender-Based Violence, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse – What Contractors Need to Know
Please join ISOA and Kilo Alpha Strategies for our next Women, Peace, and Security Training session.
Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV), and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) remain common in many conflict-affected regions and nations. These crimes, despite being institutionalized in international law and by the United
Nations, remain a weapon against marginalized and vulnerable populations around the world.
This third ISOA WPS training of year, which will be led by Kilo Alpha Strategies (www.kiloalphastrategies.com), will teach organizations how to recognize GBV, CRSV, and SEA in regions
where they work; how to address suspected or confirmed cases of GBV, CRSV, and SEA; and what each organization’s obligation is to report such crimes. Kilo Alpha will be joined by Emily Prey,
director of the gender policy at New Lines Institute and author of “Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ukraine: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Policy Options of Ukraine, the United States, and the International Community.”
Prior to the training, it is recommended that participants read the following:
- Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ukraine: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Policy Options of Ukraine, the United States, and the International Community
- Working Together to Prevent Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Recommendation for World Bank Investment Projects
This session will count as training towards ISOA’s WPS Certification Program and is available at no charge for members and non-members. Learn more about ISOA’s WPS Certification Program here.
This webinar will be recorded and posted publicly on the ISOA website for future viewing.
Sponsored by
Speaker
Ambassador Kelley E. Currie
Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security
Throughout her career in foreign policy, Ambassador Kelley E. Currie has specialized in human rights, political reform, Women Peace and Security, development, and humanitarian issues, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region. Ambassador Currie is currently
an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington D.C. think tank, and a Senior Advisor to the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University. She is a member of the board of directors of the National
Endowment for Democracy; the board of governors of the East-West Center; and the advisory boards of Spirit of America and the Vandenberg Coalition.
Ambassador Currie was unanimously confirmed in December 2019 as Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues and the U.S. Representative at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and served in that position until January 2021. Prior to
that appointment, she served under Ambassador Nikki Haley as the U.S. Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council and Alternative Representative to the UN General Assembly (2017-2018). While awaiting confirmation between ambassadorial
appointments, she was appointed interim senior official in the Department of State’s Office of Global Criminal Justice. From 2009 until her appointment to the USUN leadership, she was a Senior Fellow with the Project 2049 Institute and
the founding Director of the Institute’s Burma Transition Initiative. Ambassador Currie also held senior policy positions with the U.S. Congress, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations.
Ambassador Currie received a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center with a focus on International Human Rights Law, and an undergraduate degree cum laude in Political Science from the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International
Affairs.
Speaker
Amy K. Mitchell
Former Senior Advisor for Global Women’s Issues at State
Amy K. Mitchell brings together more than twenty years of national security, diplomacy, international relations, and strategic communications experience across government, media and the non-profit sector.
Ms. Mitchell most recently served as a member of the Senior Executive Service at the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of State. As Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, she advised the Secretary on public diplomacy,
advanced the Department’s critical mission by forging international partnerships, and oversaw all high-level engagements and events. She was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal for her service, the Department’s highest honor. As
the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for the Office of Global Women’s Issues at the State Department, she advised the Department’s senior leadership on strategic diplomatic initiatives, including the implementation of the U.S. Women, Peace,
and Security agenda and women’s economic empowerment, specifically in the Indo-Pacific region. She represented the office in interagency policy processes and bilateral and multilateral diplomatic engagements, and drove implementation of key
policy decisions on China, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and other priority contexts.
During the George W. Bush administration, Ms. Mitchell was the director of special projects at the Department of Defense and the deputy director of communications of the U.S.-hosted 2004 G8 Summit in Sea Island, Georgia. She has also held senior communications
positions outside government, including Vice President of Communications for National Review; Director of Communications for the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs; Vice President of Public Affairs at the United Service Organizations
(USO); and Managing Editor of The American Spectator.
Ms. Mitchell is currently a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at New Lines Institute, focused on human rights; a member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Foreign Policy Study Group; a strategic consultant to military and veterans service organizations;
and is on the board of Eagle Online Academy, which implements educational programs for Afghan women and girls. She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Speaker
Emily Prey
Emily Prey is a Director at The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in DC. She served as an advisor and contributed to New Lines’ groundbreaking independent expert reports:
The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention and An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent. Her work has been published
in several international publications including Foreign Policy, The Dhaka Tribune, and Praxis Journal of Human Security.
She has been interviewed by international media including CNN, Radio France International, ilGiornale, and Radio Free Asia for her expertise on gender, conflict-related sexual violence, and genocide. Emily has briefed Members of Congress and their staff,
U.S. government agencies, and Members of Parliaments around the world on genocide, conflict-related sexual violence, and Women, Peace and Security. She is the founder of ‘Gendering Geopolitics’, a popular Twitter Live series where she uses
a gendered lens to interview prominent female diplomats, journalist, activists and more around the world for just ten minutes on a particular issue.
Prior to joining New Lines, she served as Project Manager of the Financial Integration in Displacement Initiative of the International Rescue Committee at Tufts University. She has also worked with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency
Fund (UNICEF) and multiple global NGOs. She has several years of experience living and working in international development settings in Southeast Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East. She obtained her Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the
Fletcher School at Tufts University and her Bachelors in History from Williams College. She tweets at @eepreylove.