Imagined Peace, Gender Relations and Post-Conflict Transformation: Anti-Colonial and Post-Cold War Conflicts
Jane Parpart, Research Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, UMass Boston
Wednesday, February 4th, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Campus Center, Room 2545, UMass Boston
Women on the Front Line: The Political Economy of Ebola in Postwar West Africa
Kade Finnoff, Assistant Professor of Economics, UMass Boston
Wednesday, February 25th, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Chancellor's Conference Room, UMass Boston
The Political Economy of Displacement: Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan and the USA Post-2003
Isis Nusair, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and International Studies, Denison University
Monday, March 2nd, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Campus Center, Room 2545, UMass Boston
Occupations, Border-Crossings, and Gender: Human Rights in Palestine, Kashmir and the U.S.-Mexico Border
Isis Nusair, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and International Studies, Denison University; Deepti Misri, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; Luis F. Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UMass Boston
Tuesday, March 3rd, 12:00pm-2:00pm, Campus Center Ballroom A, UMass Boston
Soap, Jeans, and Feminist Futures: “Corporate Social Responsibility” and Women’s Empowerment
Elisabeth Prügl, Consortium Senior Fellow 2014-2015, Professor of IR, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva
Monday, April 6th, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Campus Center, Room 2545, UMass Boston
Hope to see you there!
Joy Onyesoh, President of WILPF Nigeria and Consortium speaker in November 2013, has released a statement from WILPF Nigeria about the abduction of girls from the school in Chibok, Borno State, on the 14th of April by Boko Haram.
Read the statement here.
The Consortium is pleased to be leading the pre-conference workshop of the International Feminist Journal of Politics third annual conference, “Gender and Crisis in Global Politics.” Speakers at our workshop on “Gendered Political Economies of Peacebuilding,” will include Lina M. Céspedes-Baez, Carol Cohn, Emily Cole, Andrea Collins, Heidi Hudson, Dyan Mazurana, Ann Tickner and Jacqui True.
Please join us on Thursday, April 24th, for an hour of networking after Sam Cook's talk, "Women, Peace and Security" Policy's Skewed Focus on Sexual Violence: The Failure of a "Successful" Feminist Intervention? Sam is a lawyer and women's rights activist from South Africa, and this talk promises to be fascinating, so we hope you will be able to join us at 4pm for her talk, and stay for networking with her and others from 6 - 7pm. Both events will take place in the UMass Boston Campus Center, room 3545. (Even if arriving in time for the talk is impossible for you, we hope you'll feel free to come at 6pm.)
We are excited to be able to help form a network of scholars devoted to exploring gender and security issues, and we hope you will become a part of it!
Moderated by Carol Cohn, director of the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, this panel will provide an opportunity for those participating in human rights education to share experiences, ideas, inspiration and resources for bringing this essential field of study to new generations of students.
Consortium director Carol Cohn will deliver the keynote address at this conference, with a talk entitled Why is it so Hard to Get Women to the Peace Table? And Why is That Not Even the Right Question? The talk will be followed by a panel discussion with former UNU-GEST Fellows and Gender Experts: Susan Asio from Uganda, and Fatima Wahaidy from Gaza, Palestine.
The conference is hosted by EDDA – Center of Excellence at the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Embassy in Iceland, the United Nations University Gender Studies and Training Programme at the University of Iceland, the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland, and the National Committee of UN Women in Iceland.
Women and Wars, edited by Carol Cohn (Polity Press, 2013) uses a feminist gender analytic framework to examine the diversity and complexity of women’s experiences of and agency in war and peacebuilding. It aims to present the complex dynamics of contemporary warfare, of militarization and peace building, arguing that one can understand neither women’s relation to war nor war itself without understanding gender, and understanding the ways that war and gender are, in fact, mutually constitutive. Developing what Cynthia Enloe, in her Foreword, describes as a “sophisticated, up-to-date gender analytical tool kit,” the volume engages with the experiences of women and girls, men and boys, and more broadly, with constructions of masculinity in both peace and war; in so doing, it demonstrates that attention to the specificity of women’s and men’s lives helps us see that the familiar binary of “war and peace” obscures a far more complex reality. All the contributors have had first-hand experience of the challenges represented by a commitment to using their gender-analytical tool kit in conflict affected contexts, which informs their individual chapters.
The book includes a chapter developing an extensive conceptual framework for thinking about gender and armed conflict by Carol Cohn, followed by chapters on: Women and the Political Economy of War (Angela Raven-Roberts); Sexual Violence and Women's Health in War (Pamela DeLargy); Women as Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (Wenona Giles); Women’s Political Activism in the Face of War and Militarization (Carol Cohn & Ruth Jacobson); Women and State Military Forces (Jennifer G. Mathers); Women, Girls and Non-State Armed Opposition Groups (Dyan Mazurana); Women and Peace Processes (Malathi de Alwis, Julie Mertus & Tazreena Sajjad); Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (Dyan Mazurana & Linda Ekerbom Cole); and Women "After" Wars (Ruth Jacobson).
“To my mind, the very best academic work makes its reader sit up and take notice, either because the ideas are unfamiliar or because familiar ideas have been articulated in a new and engaging way. The individual chapters in this volume do both of these things, and as such it deserves to be well received and widely read.”
- Laura Shepherd, University of New South Wales
Reviews of Women and Wars
By Laura Shepherd: http://www.genderanddevelopment.org/page/women-wars-review
By Christine Sylvester: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2013/04/08/book-review-women-and-wars-carol-cohn/
By Erika Cudworth: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2013.768009
By Katherine E. Brown: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9012414
By Jean Owen: http://fwsablog.org.uk/2013/05/27/book-review-women-and-wars-ed-carol-cohn/
The Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights worked with UMass system partners to plan the first public university conference of the Women in Public Service Project (WPSP). The conference, on “Conflict Transformation through Economic Development and Innovation,” was held June 3 -5, 2013, at UMass Lowell. The conference delegates were women leaders from Afghanistan, Liberia, Northern Ireland and Turkey.
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