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Remarks by Donald Steinberg

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2021

Donald Steinberg
Donald Steinberg*
Affiliation:
Executive Director, Mobilizing Men as Partners for Women, Peace and Security; board chair, Women's Refugee Commission; Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; former deputy administrator, United States Agency for International Development (USAID); former White House deputy press secretary; former U.S. Ambassador to Angola.
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My work over the last forty-five years has been at the intersection of human rights, conflict transformation, and development with the U.S. government, civil society, and the United Nations. The clearest lesson I have learned is that peaceful, prosperous, and just societies only emerge when we draw on the leadership and contributions of all of society, including women, people with disabilities, racial and religious minorities, the LGBTQ community, displaced persons, and other marginalized groups. The paradox we face is that most of the policymakers and gatekeepers who are key to ensuring this diversity and inclusion are people like me: privileged, straight, older men with little direct experience of exclusion and abuse based on identity factors.

Type
Has International Law Lived Up to Its Promise in Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls?
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 114 , 2020 , pp. 235 - 238
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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Footnotes

This panel was convened at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, June 26, 2020, by its moderator Patricia V. Sellers, Special Advisor for Gender for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, who introduced the panelists: Lisa Davis of The City University of New York School of Law; Donald Steinberg of Our Secure Future; Adwoa Kufuor-Owusu of the East Africa Regional Office, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Irene Khan of the International Development Law Organization.