Gender Salon #3: Women's Roles in Rebuilding Societies
When: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
Where: Board Room
Note: The GMT offset above does not reflect daylight saving time adjustments.
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Dear All,
Please join us on Wednesday, August 24th at noon in the Board Room as we discuss “Women’s Roles in Rebuilding Societies,” post-conflict, amidst revolutions, pre-elections, and everything in between.
In preparation for the conversation, please take a few minutes to view Zainab Salbi’s talk on women, wartime, and the dream of peace (here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/zainab_salbi.html). Consider the following excerpt from the video and think about examples we’ve seen that support/contradict this viewpoint:
“I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly -- though not exclusively -- who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included at the negotiating table.”
In addition to the video, attached please find two articles on women and the Arab Spring. During the salon we hope to flesh out the differences between women’s roles in peacebuilding in protracted conflict (e.g. Liberia) vs. women’s role in regime upheaval (Arab Spring).
We look forward to a lively discussion.
Thank you,
Michelle
