"Answering the How: Progress, Challenges and Issues for Sustaining the National Action Plan"
The purpose of the 2013 conference was to hold discussions related to the implementation and sustainment of the December 19, 2011 NAP on Women, Peace, and Security. Implementation of the NAP involves the application of five high-level objectives and 84 sub-objectives of which 17 are directly linked to Department of Defense (DoD) responsibilities. Speakers and panelists represented an extensive set of viewpoints from the armed services, as well as non-profit, government and academic organizations, while presentations explored national and international political, military, educational, institutional, sociological and anthropological view-points essential to attaining the goal of "empowering half the world’s population in conflict prevention and peace building."
The conference emphasis was to move beyond answering the question of, "Why are Women, Peace, and Security important?" to, "How are we sustaining components integral to the National Action Plan?"
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