Irene Santiago
Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Mindanao Commission on Women
and Co-founder of the Mothers for Peace Movement in the Philippines

"Women, War, Peace: Politics in Peacebuilding" - October 18, 2006 Opening the third annual Women PeaceMakers Conference, this panel, comprised of Miria Matembe, Alma Viviana Pérez and Irene Santiago, addressed the importance of the involvement of women in peacebuilding. Read more about Miria Matembe, Alma Viviana Pérez and 1325.   Watch Lecture Read Booklet Purchase Booklet

Irene Santiago is the chair and chief executive officer of the Mindanao Commission onWomen and co-founder of the Mothers for Peace Movement in the Philippines. She is a senior adviser to the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (PAPP) where she assists in policy and strategy formulation, specifically on demobilization, disarmament and reintegration. Santiago is one of two women on the Philippine government panel negotiating peace with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). In this role, she has brought gender issues into the peace talks. In 2005, Santiago was a nominee of the 1,000Women for the Nobel Peace Prize. Santiago has consulted on gender issues for theWorld Bank and numerous international institutions, organizations and governments. Santiago served as the executive director of the NGO Forum onWomen, which was organized in parallel with the 1995 UN FourthWorld Conference onWomen in Beijing.

Updated on 10/ 18/2006