Futures Lab on Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Introduction
The Security, Gender & Development Institute (SGDI) is an international
network of practitioners, academics and policymakers based in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The goal of the Institute is for individuals to come together in the international realm
to bridge the gap between theory and practice by providing expert recommendations
and analysis on the interconnected areas of security, gender, and development to
policymakers, institutions, governments, and other actors.
Within the High-Level Futures Literacy Summit, co-jointly with the UNESCO
Chair on Socio-cultural Anticipation and Resilience (SARAS Institute) we
facilitate a workshop on Future Literacy Framework for the Scientific and
Technologic Institute of the Peruvian Army (ICTE).
Context
The United Nations Security Council’s adopted the Resolution 1325 in 2000 which
called the UN member states and the UN Secretary-General to 1) increase the
participation of women in conflict resolution, including in security sector, 2)
integrate gender perspectives in the analysis of international security issues, and 3)
adopt measures to protect women from violence in conflict settings.
All in all, providing a framework towards a sustainable peace, human security and
justice by acknowledging the equal place that women and girls should display in the
policy making and implementation of solutions of peacebuilding and peacekeeping,
also in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals 5 “Gender equality” and
16 “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions”.
As of August 2019, a total of 82 states have developed National Action Plans (NAPs)
to implement and advance the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda. As
presented by Women in International Security (WIIS) and a study from the
European Union, in the Latin American Region, only six countries had developed
their NAPs (Argentina, Chile and Paraguay in 2015; Brazil and Guatemala in 2017;
El Salvador), five are under process (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Trinidad &
Tobago, and Uruguay); and four had not yet begun (Colombia, Panama, Peru y
Dominican Republic).
Therefore, to present futures literacy tools, WPS Agenda has been chosen as a
relevant topic for Defense Institutions within Latin American region.
Methodology
During a 150-minutes workshop, a collaborative exercise will be carried out in
working groups using the Causal Layer Analysis tool.
Agenda
- Introduction - Plenary.
- Methodology and relevant concepts - Plenary.
- Phase 1 of analysis “assumptions exploration” – Breakout groups.
- Phase 2 of analysis “reframing” – Breakout groups.
- Working groups presentation – Plenary.
- Conclusions - Plenary.
Audience
Staff and participants at ICTE.
Date
December 10th, 2020. 14:30 - 17:00 Peru time.
Language
Spanish
Report
The Futures lab on WPS Agenda was carried out for 30+ participants from ICTE and
the Ministry of Defense of Peru.
SGDI-SARAS presented three speakers on the relevant concepts (Cecilia Palomo,
Lydia Garrido, Mónica Méndez) and five facilitators for breakout groups (Cecilia
Palomo, Karla Palomo, Lidia Barbosa, Mauricio Márquez, Mónica Méndez).
During plenary session, the speakers presented WPS Agenda in Latin America
(Mónica Méndez), along with diversity, horizontality and gender perspective
concepts (Cecilia Palomo). In addition to an introduction to Futures Literacy (Image
1) and Casual Layered Analysis tool (Image 2) by Lydia Garrido.
Image 1. Introduction to future literacy framework

Image 2. Causal Layered Analysis

The facilitators accompanied the working groups during phase 1 and 2.

Phase 1. Making visible the invisible

During breaking groups, participants identified their individual, group and social
assumptions on gender, as their anticipatory assumptions. The prompts were:
Imagining traveling in time to 2050 the following terms were explored:
How is the Peruvian Army in 2050?
What is the ratio of gender equality within the institution?
Which were the barriers to change?
Which were the overcome challenges?
What opportunities were available?
Which myths were surmounted?
Phase 2. Reframing
The groups identified alternative scenarios, from the findings of pase 1. Facilitators
supported an environment for participants to develop a different framework of
current circumstances.
Each group selected one of the identified myths and co-created an alternative
scenario (Image 3).
Image 3. Working group 1 outcome
Lastly, again in plenary each group shared their findings and scenarios. The whole
process ended in an exchange process on new insights, learnings, and reflections on
gender perspective in the Peruvian Army. Bringing out new perspectives to continue
developing ways to implement WPS Agenda.
Image 4. Workshop participants

Contact:
Mónica Méndez Caballero, Senior Researcher at SGDI.
monica.mendez.caballero@gmail.com
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