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GEST, in partnership with the Nordic Women Mediators Network (NWM) and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Iceland, organized an online seminar in three sessions on 26 November 2020, addressing the progress made within the Women, Peace and Security Agenda since the signatory of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security in 2000. The NWM Icelandic members were the key speakers and moderators at the online seminar, and were joined by specialists such as Stella Samúelsdóttir and Íris Björg Kristjánsdóttir from UN Women in Iceland, Randa Siniora, General Director of Women Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC) in Palestine, Sylvia Thompson, Senior Manager at Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) in Yemen and a member of the Nordic Women Mediators Network– Norway, and Emma Leslie, Executive Director of Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and a member of the Women Mediators across the Commonwealth.