International Affiliates and Groups
Afghanistan
**Affiliate in the works
Contact: Afifa Azim (afifaazim@hotmail.com), Executive Director of the Afghan Women's Network (www.afghanwomensnetwork.org); Mary Akrami (mary.akrami@gmail.com), Director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Center; and Maky Siawash (maky_siawash@yahoo.com), Director of Kabul Orthopedic Organization. (Thanks to Audrey Roberts, The Advocacy Project, 2007 Peace Fellow, Afghan Women's Network (Kabul) - aroberts@advocacynet.org)
Argentina
WIIS-Argentina
Contact: Irma Arguello, Founder and Chairwoman, NPSGlobal - Nonproliferation for Global Security Foundation, irmaar@gmail.com
Website: www.npsglobal.org
Austria
**Affiliate in the works
WIIS-Vienna
Contact: Lorena Moreles, l.moreles_gonzales@iaea.org and Catherine Monzel, c.monzel@iaea.org
Belgium
WIIS-Brussels
Website: http://www.wiis-brussels.org/
Contact: Rachel Winks and Theo Adekunle; wiisbrussels@gmail.com
Background: November 2005 saw the resumption of WIIS activity in Brussels. As in the past, the group is holding monthly speaker meetings in private homes, bringing women together from a wide range of institutional settings in order to discuss issues of common concern. Being based in Brussels – the heart of the European Union and NATO – the groups mainly focuses on security issues linked to these two institutions, including response to disaster and crisis management, civil-military cooperation, and gender and conflict issues.
Canada
WIIS-Canada
Contact: Stefanie von Hlatky, Candidate au doctorat/PhD Candidate, Université de Montréal, svonhlatky@hotmail.com
Estonia
WIIS-EST
Contact: Ms. Merle Krigul, mkrigul@hot.ee
Background: Following the WIIS conference titled Baltic Regional Security Challenges held in Riga, Latvia in May 2003, a WIIS organization was started in Tallinn, Estonia. The group's first meeting featured The Honorable Elisabet Bonnier, Swedish Ambassador to Estonia.
Germany
WIIS.de
Website: http://www.wiis.de
Contact: Ms. Constanze Stelzenmüller, director of The German Marshall Fund’s Berlin office; cstelzenmueller@gmfus.org or Eva Schröder; WIIS.de assistant; assistant@wiis.de
Background: WIIS.de was officially launched on October 21, 2003, at a reception hosted by The Honorable Riina Kionka, then Estonian Ambassador to Germany. Since that time, its membership has increased to more than 100 members. WIIS.de welcomes members from politics, business, academia, military, and media. Although founded in Berlin, the organization also includes members from other German cities. Regional groups exist in Hamburg and Cologne.
Greece
WIIS-Greece
Website: http://gaaec.org/index_en.php
Contact: Dr. Aliki Mitsakos-Georgiou, Chairperson of the Education and Science Committee, Greek Association for Atlantic and European Cooperation; women@gaaec.org.
India
Women In Security Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP)
Website: http://www.wiscomp.org/index.htm
Contact: wiscomp@vsnl.com; furhhdl@vsnl.com
Background: WISCOMP, established in 1999, is a project of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama. It sees its role as creating a space to engender an inclusive, conceptual vocabulary in the areas of peace, security and conflict transformation. To this end, it seeks to empower new voices and promote a more people-oriented and gender sensitive discourse on matters relating to peace and security. WISCOMP has several ongoing projects including the Conflict Transformation Workshop; Scholar of Peace Fellowships; WISCOMP Kashmir Initiative; Transcending Conflict: Gender and Non-traditional Security in South Asia program; and WISCOMP Diplomacy Initiative.
Iraq
**Affiliate in the works
Baghdad
Contact: Shahla Al Kli, Fletcher school of Law and Diplomacy, MALD 08, Shahla.Al_kli@tufts.edu
Italy
**Affiliate in the works
Kenya
WIIS-East Africa
Contact: Sabina Blaskovic, Investigator, Investigations Division, Office of Internal Oversight Services - Sabina.Blaskovic@unon.org
Website: http://web.mac.com/wiisnairobi
Malta
WIIS-Malta
Contact: Ms. Céline Cervi at wiismalta@gmail.com
Netherlands
**Affiliate in the works
Contact: Ms. Christa Meindersma (expert at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies) - christa.meindersma@tno.nl
Poland
**Affiliate in the works -
Contact: Karolina MacLachlan, karolina.maclachlan@gmail.com, and Professor Irena Lipowicz (irena.lipowicz@gmail.com)
Romania
**Affiliate in the works
Contact: Simona Hobincu(doctorate, national school of political studies and public administration), simona.hobincu@yahoo.com and Ioana Stancel (ministry of administration and interior) is83@georgetown.edu
Serbia
**Affiliate in the works
Contact: Jasmina Glisic, ninon@EUnet.yu / jasminaglisic@yahoo.com & Birna Thorarinsdottir birnathorarins@gmail.com
Switzerland
**Affiliate in the works
Contact: Christina Liang, c.liang@gcsp.ch and Lena Hagelstein, Lena.Hagelstein@weforum.org
Patricia Lewis, Director, UNIDIR, plewis@unog.ch
Turkey
**Affiliate in the works
Contact: Sebnem Udum, PhD Candidate, Bilkent University - usebnem@bilkent.edu.tr
Ukraine
**Affiliate in the works
Contact: Tetyana Isaeva, editor of information and educational magazine "I" - t_isaeva@ukr.net
United Kingdom
British WIIS (B-WIIS)
Contact: Dr. Petra Dolata-Kreutzkamp, Department of War Studies, King's College, petra.dolata@kcl.ac.uk or Katrin Heuel, Research Analyst for The International Institute For Strategic Studies, Heuel@iiss.org.
Background: B-WIIS consists of approximately 160 women from academia, journalism, government, and NGOs in at least 5 countries. They encourage WIIS members who will be visiting London to contact them.