SUMMIT GOAL: To enhance the effectiveness of women’s leadership on global security.

Objective 1: The Summit will launch a process to amplify the efforts of women leaders
and to facilitate more collective action on global security.

1.1 Gather current and former heads of state and government for a private meeting in support
of women’s leadership on global security.
1.2 Articulate the interconnectedness of human and state security on such issues as economy,
climate change, humanitarian intervention and peacebuilding, and terrorism and counterterrorism.
1.3 Identify critical points of leverage to effect change on these issues in existing multilateral
negotiations and legal frameworks.
1.4 Create a task force for Track II diplomacy¹ on acute crises and critical trends affecting
global security.
1.5 Establish strategies for engagement with key individuals in multilateral institutions.

Objective 2: The Summit will generate public awareness and support for women’s
leadership on global security.

2.1 Showcase women’s leadership on global security.
2.2 Endorse and promote the Summit Declaration as a call to action on global security.
2.3 Develop strategies for reframing key issues and messages in order to promote an integrated
approach to addressing critical problems of global security.
2.4 Institutionalize a network of experts available for consultation and public speaking on
global security.

Objective 3: The Summit will generate ideas and increased resources for women’s
leadership on global security.

3.1 Expand relationships between the funding community and women leaders.
3.2 Secure financial commitments to new and ongoing projects.
3.3 Integrate Summit outcomes with future meetings of women leaders on global security.

¹ Track II diplomacy refers to non-official diplomacy which is conducted or facilitated by influential individuals,
often initiated as a way to address issues which have not or cannot yet be addressed via official channels.