Morocco Hosts International Training on Women in Peacekeeping Operations

This training is being held from November 13 to 17 at the headquarters of the Southern Zone in Agadir, for the benefit of FAR officers and multinational executives from 7 French-speaking countries. It aims to acquire new knowledge and consolidate the achievements in terms of gender in peacekeeping operations, thus putting into practice the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council on the "Women, Peace and Security" agenda, indicates the general staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) in a press release.

Morocco had in the meantime expressed its commitment to involving women in the peace-building process. In early 2022, Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, had announced the launch of the national action plan on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security (WPS). "The presentation of this plan is not an exercise in formalism, it is rather a direct implementation of Resolution 1325 and the successive resolutions of the Security Council," he had affirmed.

This plan was presented at an event organized in Rabat in November 2022 by ConnectinGroup International to examine the involvement of women in peacekeeping and conflict resolution issues. "Being myself a former military officer, I can say that women contribute a lot to peacebuilding, but also to the armed forces," assured Sebastian Vagt, director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation office in Morocco during the event.