Women, Peace and Security Calendar
2008

2008 Calendar Index

february

18th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference
February 1, 2008, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Center for the Study of Women in conjunction with the USC Center for Feminist Research

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or preconstituted panels. We especially welcome feminist research on women of color, the premodern, queerness, and the sciences.

Deadline for submissions: Monday October 29, 2007 by midnight.
We will only accept completed submissions emailed by the deadline.
Please send submissions to: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu.

For more information, please click HERE

Third African Conference on Sexual Health and Rights, Sexuality, Poverty and Accountability in Africa
February 4-7, 2008, Abuja, Nigeria

The goal of the conference is to examine the interrelationships between poverty and sexuality and also how the issue of accountability affects sexual health and social well-being in Africa.

For more information, please click HERE

International Workshop: Gender, Youth and Economic Empowerment in the Pacific
April 16-17, 2008, Rydges Lakeside, Canberra, Australia
Australian Government AusAID
The application form, resume and proposed travel itinerary must be submitted
by 5:00PM (AEDST) on Monday 18 February 2008.

For more information, please click HERE

NATO Conference: Women in Armed Conflicts - The Implementation of UN
Security Council Resolution 1325
February 19, 2008, Vienna, Austria
Elisabeth Rehn, as well as the UK/international Gender specialist Lesley Abdela speaking at
next week's NATO Conference in Vienna on Women In Armed Conflicts there will
also be Finland's former Defence Minister Elisabeth Rehn*. The event will
bring together experts from international organisations and national
administrations dealing with gender mainstreaming in peace keeping
operations. Among the delegates will be both military and civilian men and women working
with UNSCR 1325 or those with a professional interest in the role of women
in post-conflict reconstruction. There will also be policy-makers, people
like Lesley Abdela, who have worked extensively in the field, e.g. Kosovo,
Iraq, Aceh, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nepal etc.

For information on attending or other matters concerning this NATO
conference please contact Loredana Enachescu, Officer PASP-EIPD, at NATO HQ
on enachescu.loredana@hq.nato.int

Mainstreaming gender equality in the World of Work (distance learning course)
February 4-July 31, 2008, Turin, Italy
International Training Center, Gender Coordination Unit

The overall purpose of this course is to help advancing the ILO Decent Work agenda by supporting ILO constituents and staff, member countries' representatives and other development agents in developing skills to integrate gender equality concerns into their programmes and actions.

For more information, please click HERE

Gender, poverty and employment (distance learning course)
February 4-July 31, 2008, Turin, Italy
International Training Center, Gender Coordination Unit

The GPE programme is meant to contribute to the local, national and international endeavours to fight poverty through the promotion of Decent Work for women and men; by strengthening capacities to examine the inter-linkages between gender, poverty and employment; design, implement and assess gender-sensitive anti-poverty and employment policies and programmes; integrate the gender and decent work perspective into national and international policy agendas on poverty reduction; stimulating effective debate and action at the international, national and regional level; strengthening the ability of development agents (from international organizations, national institutions and NGOs and to provide assistance in this area.

For more information, please click HERE

IPJ Speaker Series: "Iranian-Saudi Relations and Prospects for Gulf Peace."
February 6, 2008, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
University of San Diego

For more information, please click HERE

IPJ Theatre: IPJ Film Series: "The Peacekeepers."
February 11, 2008, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
University of San Diego

For more information, please click HERE

IPJ Theatre: IPJ Speaker Series: "Confronting Genocide in Sudan."
February 15, 2008, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
University of San Diego

For more information, please click HERE

Public Trial to celebrate Women Against Rape’s 30th anniversary: The rape of justice: Who’s guilty?
Saturday February 16, 2008 2-5 pm (Doors open 1.30pm)
Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck St, London NW1 8NJ, UK (1 min Camden Town tube)

Come and testify – or be the jury! All welcome. Women will testify about experiences of dealing with sexual, domestic and other violence - and with police, prosecutors, courts, asylum/immigration officers or other authorities responsible for justice and protection. Male survivors also welcome. Anonymity respected. Accessible entrance, accessible toilet nearby.

For more information, please click HERE

Special Event:"Three Cups of Tea: An Evening with Greg Mortenson"
February 18, 2008, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
University of San Diego

For more information, please click HERE

"Sex slaves"-Film Screening and Discussion
Wednesday February 20, 2008 6:30pm -8:30pm,
The Sister Fund, 79 5th Avenue #4, New York, NY
GS Justice Peace Team

For more information, please click HERE

Call for Papers, International & Interdisciplinary Conference, HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIVIDUALISM & GLOBALIZATION
April 10-12, 2008, Bethany College, West Virginia
Sponsored by the Center for Spirituality, Ethics & Global Awareness And the Bethany College School of Arts & Sciences

Selected papers from the conference will be published (subject to editorial review) in a special volume of the Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion.

Please send a 150 word abstract to
HumanRightsProposal@ideologiesofwar.com
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACT: FEBRUARY 29, 2008.
For additional information about the conference go to:
http://www.bethanywv.edu/internationalconferences

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52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women
February 25 - March 7, 2008, UN Headquarters, New York, USA
UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women. It is the principal global policy-making body. Every year, representatives of Member States gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and advancement of women worldwide.

CSW will consider the theme: “Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women” at its 52nd session.

For more information, please click HERE

IPJ Film Series: "Beyond the Gates."
February 26, 2008, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
University of San Diego

For more information, please click HERE

Ottawa launch of the Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit
February 28, 2008, The Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group of
the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee, The North-South Institute, and The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, The North-South Institute Boardroom

For more information, please click HERE

At What Cost?: Women, Wars, Weapons and Conflict Prevention
2008 International Women's Day Seminar, Geneva, Switzerland
March 5, 2008: NGO conference at International Conference Centre
March 6 2008: Dialogue among NGOs, governments and UN officials at U.N., Geneva

Since 1984, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has worked with other NGOs to organise a seminar linking 8 March – International Women's Day – with disarmament, peace and security issues. Each year, a report and statement from the NGO conference has been read into the record of the Conference on Disarmament (CD), the only official oral statement from NGOs to this body. This year the seminar will be in two parts.

The deadline to register is February 25, 2008.

For more information, please click HERE

Call For Papers: WOMEN’S WORLDS 2008
July 3-9, 2008 Madrid, Spain
Women’s Worlds / Mundos de Mujeres

The 10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Women’s Worlds / Mundos de Mujeres 2008, will be held in Madrid, Spain, at the Complutense University. The motto of the Congress is “Equality: no Utopia” and the general theme “New Frontiers: Dares, Challenges and Changes”. Violence and migrations will be part of the central themes. Individuals and/or groups, as well as public and private organizations interested in the Congress themes are invited to submit their proposals.

The deadline for participation grants is February 4, 2008, and proposals will be accepted until February 28, 2008.

For more information, please click HERE

Engendering Leadership Through Research & Practice, Gender, Work & Organization
July 22-24, 2008, University of Western Australia (UWA) Business School, Perth, Western Australia

The overall aim of this international conference is to generate new thinking about gender and leadership by providing a creative forum for interaction between leadership scholars, researchers, practitioners and policy makers from across the world.

Registration will open early in February 2008. Abstracts of 500 words are due by February 15, 2008;
papers of 3000-5000 words are due by May 30, 2008

For more information, please click HERE

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