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American Enterprise Institute Webinar — Advancing the Women, Peace American Enterprise Institute Webinar — Advancing the Women, Peace, and Security Strategy in 2020 Opening remarks: Mackenzie Eaglen, AEI Panelist discussion Panelists: Julie Cram, US Agency for International Development Kelley E. Currie, Office of Global Women’s Issues, US Department of State Stephanie Hammond, US Department of Defense Cameron Quinn, US Department of Homeland Security Moderator: Mackenzie Eaglen, AEI 1:00–2:00 p.m. Thursday, June 11, 2020 Event Page: https://www.aei.org/events/webinar-advancing-the-women-peace- and-security-strategy-in-2020/ Mackenzie Eaglen: Good afternoon. Thank you to all of our viewers for joining us today. I’m Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute. And it is a real pleasure and an honor to have such an awesome event with amazing and accomplished policymakers and decision makers joining us today for the “Women, Peace, and Security Webinar.” I’m going to briefly go through a couple of bios, but I want to also do the administrative housekeeping for all of those who are joining us. And I’ll repeat this again maybe after opening remarks and in case some viewers are logging on just now or in a few moments. We are looking forward to audience questions today. So, if you have questions, there are two ways to submit those during our discussion from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. The first is through Twitter, and there are two hashtags. The first hashtag is #AEIWPS2020. The second one is #WPSinaction. If Twitter’s not your thing, which I totally understand, and you’re old- fashioned and like email, that’s good too. And our extraordinary researcher here, Hallie Coyne, will take your emails directly at her email address, which is [email protected]. So please send in your questions, and we will get to them throughout the discussion this morning and look forward to hearing from various people. I’m not going to do much talking today. I’m going to let our amazing panelists talk because it’s a very exciting day. Obviously, this month is the one-year anniversary of the Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security. And as of 62 minutes ago I believe, each of these agencies participating today have dropped their implementation plans for the strategy and made them public, which is super exciting, and I’m guessing why they wanted to talk today. This is also great because this has been a big issue for Congress. They’ve been keen to know more details about implementation of the strategy, who’s doing what and where and why, and details beyond some of the great work that was in the document. You know, the strategy was a tremendous contribution to these issues in particular, including highlighting the need to include women in — excuse me — also to bring in men and boys as supporters of these concepts and ideas and getting offices and agencies and officials in charge of thinking about this beyond someone who’s just assigned to it because they showed up for work one day, all the way down to the geographic combatant commands at the Defense Department, which is pretty exciting. So, with that being said, I suspect today we’re going to focus more on the details of those implementation plans, but let me briefly introduce our panel. We will begin today with our very esteemed guest, fellow friend and traveler and colleague of mine, Ambassador-at-Large Kelley Currie, in the Office of Global Women’s Issues at the State Department. Amb. Currie serves simultaneously as a US representative at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. And prior to her appointment, she led State Department’s Office of Criminal Justice. It’s truly remarkable. Throughout her career, Amb. Currie has specialized in human rights, political reform, development, and humanitarian issues. Next up, we have Stephanie Hammond joining us from the Defense Department. I just want to alert our viewers that she’s joining by phone today. So, if you don’t see her, that’s the explicit reason why. Stephanie is the acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for stability and humanitarian operations in the Secretariat for Policy. In her current role, Stephanie supports development of defense policy for these similar issues as the ambassador, but also natural disaster response, peacekeeping and instability operations, and human rights. Previously, Stephanie was a special assistant to the undersecretary of defense for policy, handling international security affairs portfolio. She has also worked at a nongovernmental organization and in Congress, and really, really great stuff. She’s received the Department of Defense Exceptional Civilian Service Award, which I think is just awesome. Next up in our presentation before we move to questions with me and with the audience, we have Ms. Cameron Quinn, officer for civil rights and civil liberties at the Department of Homeland Security. Cameron has been in her position since 2017. And prior to that, she served in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Agriculture. She’s also been a senior policy adviser in the Civil Rights Division at Justice and is an expert in election law and integration, and she also spent several years in the private sector at Winston & Strawn. And last but not least at all, excuse me, is Julie Cram. She’s our deputy assistant administrator in the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment at the Agency for International Development. In this bureau, Julie’s portfolio includes the Office of Education and Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. She also serves, quite busy, as the agency’s senior coordinator for gender equality and women’s empowerment. Prior to joining AID in 2018, Julie was an advocacy in public affairs expert with nearly two decades experience in issue advocacy, communications, government affairs, and more. So, welcome to all of you. Thank you for being here, and thank you to our audience for joining us. And again, I’ll tell you how to submit questions after the opening remarks. We’re not going to have me interrupt anymore. We’re just going to go through our panelists. And Ambassador, over to you. Thank you again. Kelley E. Currie: Thank you so much, Mackenzie. It is wonderful to see you. It’s been a long time since we traveled to Israel together and first met. And I got to know what an amazing young woman you were then. And now to see you in this discipline, it’s so rewarding to have watched your career over the past time that we’ve known each other and to see what you’ve accomplished. It’s also great to be joined by my fellow wonderful colleagues. I could not ask for a better group of women and others that I work with in the administration on this set of issues. We have such a great team. And I love coming to work every day to get to work with my colleagues, because we’re all so excited about what we’re doing on Women, Peace, and Security, on women’s economic empowerment, on just everything we’re doing to support American leadership on these important issues. Women, Peace, and Security is an issue that is very close to my heart. It’s something that I am so excited to be able to work on here in this office, in the Office of Global Women’s Issues, because I know how meaningful it is for women to be included in peace processes, to have a role in their community, and to be able to participate across all the work that we’re doing on foreign policy and national security, and how much it improves our outcomes when we do incorporate women into everything we’re doing. So, this is a national security and foreign policy issue that impacts all of us. When President Trump signed the 2017 Women, Peace, and Security Act, the United States became the first country in the world to have comprehensive legislation on this priority issue. And I was always so happy when I was at the UN in New York a couple of years ago and speaking on the Security Council or in the General Assembly to be able to point that fact out. And I was always trying to find my Norwegian or Swedish [inaudible] and look at them and give them a nice smile to show that we were leading in an area that they like to think that they’re out in front. It was always a nice moment. In 2019, last year, on this very day, we reaffirmed that commitment that we’ve long had since even going back before the passage of UNSCR 1325, 20 years ago this year. We reaffirmed our commitment to advance the Women, Peace, and Security agenda when the White House released their strategy that informs and animates all of the work that we do. And it called upon the four agencies represented here today to develop concrete implementation plans to implement that strategy and to work against it. And today is a really proud moment for all of us. We’ve been working really hard for the past year to create these plans against that strategy and to make sure that they’re mission-specific, innovative, measurable, and able to hold us all accountable to that strategy. Secretary Pompeo — who I really appreciate the leadership that he shows and that the model that he sets here in the department for us and the support that I get from him — he has noted that women around the world have an essential role in conflict prevention, resolution, security provision, peace processes, and countering terrorism.
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