Conference Program

Conference Moderator: Julie Lindhout, President, Atlantic Council of Canada

13:00	Registration
13:30	Welcome
13:45	Opening Keynote Address H.E. Ambassador Marriët Schuurman, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for WPS
14:15	Panel I: UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and its Implementation in Canada
	*Moderator: Prof. Barbara Falk, Canadian Forces College* The Hon. Mobina Jaffer, Senator, British Columbia, Liberal Party of Canada The Difference Armed Forces Can Make in the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 Jennifer May, Director of the Defence and Security Relations Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
15:45	Panel II: Women on the Front Lines in Conflict and Reconstruction
	*Moderator: Kathryn E. Langley Hope, Director, Atlantic Council of Canada* Dr. Lorna Read, Chief Operating Officer, Warchild Canada Building the Foundations of Peace: Women at the Centre of Post-Conflict Community Change Olivia Ward, Correspondent, Toronto Star Nowhere to Hide: Women on the Front Lines in 21^st Century Conflicts
16:45	Break

17:15	Working Supper with Discussion Groups

18:15	Panel III: Women in Peace Negotiations, Governance and Development
	*Moderator: Nicole Verkindt*, CEO and Founder, OMX Prof. Sylvia Bashevkin, University of Toronto, Department of Political Science Women as Foreign Policy Leaders: National Security Politics in Superpower America
19:15	Discussion Group Wrap-up

19:45	Closing Remarks
	The Hon. Hugh Segal, Chair, Atlantic Council of Canada