WUNRN
Women's
Leadership Institute on Peace and Security
Istanbul, Turkey
Applications
are due on or before 22
November 2014. To
apply online, click
here. If you experience difficulty with the online method,
download the application from CREA's website (www.creaworld.org)
and e-mail the completed form to Sushma Luthra at sluthra@creaworld.org or to CREA
at crea@creaworld.org.
Send any queries to Ms Luthra as well. The Women's Leadership Institute on Peace and Security is a
weeklong course designed to build transformative leadership of activists in
fragile and conflict-affected areas. The Institute, a first of its kind will
apply a feminist, intersectional and inter movement lens and strategies to
strengthen women's voices in conflict affected situations and transformation
to peace. The Institute will combine reflection on the current
political landscape as well as past organising strategies for women's rights
and raising women's voices in conflict and post conflict settings. The
Institute will also reflect on fundamentalisms across the world and their
influence on women's rights and security. Participants will be able to relate
some of the experiences and lessons from different movements to their own
contexts, countries, and regions. |
Course Content The Institute, by applying a transformative women's leadership
approach, aims to build feminist leadership to create processes of social
transformation that address cultures of inequality in fragile and conflict
affected contexts. This includes taking a feminist approach to analyse peace
building processes and women's roles therein. While understanding women's
roles, the Institute will analyse women's conception of security and
insecurity, especially in conflict-affected situations. By taking on a
feminist lens the participants will be able to relate their work and their
contexts with theoretical underpinnings. The Institute will also facilitate
cross learning between participants, create solidarity of women leaders and
learn from each other's experiences. Some of the course highlights are:
The Institute will foreground reflection at the personal and
institutional level that will both enable and challenge participants to
strengthen their leadership skills and strategies to effect real change for
women's rights and social justice. An ongoing mentorship will be provided,
which links participants with relevant advisors or networks to support the
further development of initiatives after returning to their communities. Participants To participate you must:
Venue and Dates The Women's Leadership Institute on Peace and Security will be
held in Travel and Visa Participants are responsible for making their own travel
arrangements to and from the Institute, including obtaining visa. The
organisers will assist with the visa process by providing a letter of
invitation and required visa letters. Costs The organisers will cover travel, tuition, accommodation and
meals for the duration of the Institute. Participants will be required to pay
a registration fee of US$100. |
Participating
Faculty Activists and academics from will teach the course using
classroom instruction, group work, case studies, simulation exercises and
films. Resource persons at the Women's Leadership Institute on Peace and
Security include: Fahima Abdel Hafiz Hashim is a women's rights
defender/activist, researcher, and trainer, serving now as the Director for
Salmmah Women's Resource Centre. She has a Masters Degree in Documentation
and Library Sciences, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. With over 20 years of
experience in the area of gender and development, with a special emphasis on
women's rights and sexuality, Fahima has combined research, training,
institutional development, and consultancy experience. She has also travelled
extensively, and has written and researched widely in the areas of women's
rights and gender equality in Hussainatu J. Abdullah, an independent
scholar, is a member of the board of the Agency for Cooperation and Research
in Development (ACORD). She is currently consulting for the Millennium
Challenge Corporation Compact in John Paul Lederach is a professor of
International Peacebuilding and Director, of Peace Accords Matrix.
Widely known for his pioneering work in conflict transformation, Lederach is
involved in conciliation work in Ma. Samuel Kofi Woods II, is presently the Legal
Consultant of the Liberia Law Society, a consortium of lawyers and
development professionals, which he recently established in Sreekala MG is a feminist and human rights
activist based in Srilatha Batliwala is a feminist activist and
researcher who is currently Scholar Associate with the Association for
Women's Rights in Development (AWID), a leading international women's rights
organisation. Srilatha has worked for gender equality and women's
empowerment for the last 40 years through grassroots activism, advocacy,
research, training, building theory from practice, and capacity building and
mentoring of young women activists. Up to the mid-90s she focused on
building movements of poor urban and rural women in |
Organisers CREA is
a feminist human rights organisation based in Cordaid is a Dutch development organisation
operating worldwide, fighting poverty and exclusion in fragile states and
conflict-affected areas. Cordaid works closely with a network of 617
partner organisations in 38 countries worldwide including in the |
Applications are due on or before 22 November 2014. Application received after the due date will not be considered. ___________________________________________________________________________________ |