The Institute for Peace
The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution in
Partnership Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and social
Development, Norwegian Embassy and UN Women has organized
stakeholders Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security.
The Director General of the Institute, Dr. Bakut T.
Bakut while declaring the event open in Abuja said that the
programme focused on how women can meaningfully enhance their role
in conflict prevention and resolution in Nigeria with a reference
to North East, the Middle Belt and the Delta region.
Dr. Bakut said that though conflict affects everybody
negatively, but has a disproportionate impact on women in
particular due to their peculiar vulnerability status and the
general dis-respect by combatants to uphold extant convention.
Dr. Bakut explained that to reverse the limitation in
women’s inclusion in peace processes Nigeria and other member
countries of the United Nations accented to the United Nations
Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 which call for the
inclusion of women in peace building. It was adopted in the year
2000 and also con