Dear Colleagues,
Below is information about Women's Learning Partnership's international
conference, "Clash or Consensus? Gender and Human Security in a
Globalized World" to be held October 8-9, 2003 in Washington, DC. Please
share this announcement with your network.
Best Regards,
Women's Learning Partnership
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International Conference
CLASH OR CONSENSUS? GENDER & HUMAN SECURITY IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD
OCTOBER 8-9, 2003
Kenney Auditorium, The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Johns Hopkins University, WASHINGTON, DC
The conference will provide a forum for international women leaders and
human security experts from the Global South, particularly from Muslim
societies, to define human security goals from a perspective that is
people-centered and focuses on the social, political, economic, and
cultural needs and rights of individuals. Participants from 20 countries
around the world will explore ways to implement human security goals
including the peaceful resolution of conflicts, sustainable development,
gender equity, and strong civil societies that support and promote
democratic processes.
Topics Include:
- Human Security & Human Rights
- Preventing the Spread of Extremisms & Minimizing Threats to Human
Security
- Knowledge, Skills &Values for Human Security
- Health & Reproductive Rights
- Gender & Post-Conflict Reconstruction
- Participatory Leadership & Democratic Governance
- Building Grassroots & International Alliances
"In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a
disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a
dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed. The
imperatives of this human security have become universal, indivisible,
and truly global today."
--Mahbub ul Haq, Founder and Chief Architect of UNDP Human Development
Reports
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mary Robinson, Executive Director, Ethical Globalization Initiative,
former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Ireland)
SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Mahnaz Afkhami, Founder and President, Women's Learning Partnership
(Iran/USA)
Amneh Badran, Director, East Jerusalem Center for Women (Palestine)
Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global
Leadership (USA)
Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President, Children's Defense Fund
(USA)
Najma Heptulla, Deputy Chairperson, Rajya Sabha, Upper House of
Parliament (India)
Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UN Development Fund for Women
(Singapore)
Swanee Hunt, Founder and Chair, Women Waging Peace, former Ambassador to
Austria (USA)
Attiya Inayatullah, Member of Parliament, former Minister, Women's
Development, Social Welfare, and Special Education (Pakistan)
Azza Karam, Women's Program Director, Religions for Peace, World
Conference on Religion and Peace (Egypt)
Asma Khader, Coordinator, Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan (Jordan)
Wangari Maathai, Coordinator, The Greenbelt Movement (Kenya)
Gay McDougall, Executive Director, International Human Rights Law Group
(USA)
Mishka Mojabber Mourani, Senior Vice President, International College
(Lebanon)
Azar Nafisi, Director, The Dialogue Project, SAIS, Johns Hopkins
University (Iran)
Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General and CEO, CIVICUS: World Alliance for
Citizen Participation (South Africa)
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Founder, Caring for the Future Foundation,
former Prime Minister (Portugal)
Jacqueline Pitanguy, Founder and Director, Cidadania, Estudo, Pesquisa,
Informacao e Acao (Brazil)
Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women (India/USA)
Aruna Rao, Coordinator, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (India)
Nasreen M. Sideek, Minister of Reconstruction and Development, Kurdistan
Regional Government (Iraq)
Madhavi Sunder, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis,
School of Law (USA)
Zenebeworke Tadesse, Founding Member, Association of African Women for
Research and Development (Ethiopia)
Mervat Tallawy, Executive Secretary, UN ESCWA, former Minister,
Insurance and Social Affairs (Egypt)
Sakena Yacoobi, Founder and Executive Director, Afghan Institute of
Learning (Afghanistan)
CONFERENCE LOCATION
Kenney Auditorium, SAIS
1740 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
9 AM - 5PM, October 8-9, 2003
REGISTRATION
$40 Pre-registration before Sept. 22
$60 On-site registration
Lunch and coffee breaks included.
(Registration for SAIS students is free with ID. Lunch not included. $20
for lunch.) http://www.learningpartnership.org
REGISTRATION FORM:
Complete the registration form here:
http://www.learningpartnership.org/events/2003/clashorconsensus/registratio
n.doc
and mail, fax, or email it with your fee to:
Women's Learning Partnership
4343 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 201
Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Tel: (1)301.654.2774 | Fax: (1)301.654.2775
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.learningpartnership.org
WLP is grateful to the following organizations for their generous
support of this conference: Ford Foundation, Global Fund for Women,
Mama Cash, Open Society Institute, Shaler Adams Foundation, The Sister
Fund
Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) is
an international, non-governmental organization that empowers women and
girls in the Global South to re-imagine and re-structure their roles in
their families, communities, and societies.
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