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Opportunities/resources for young women (leaders)
| by Sahro | Wednesday, April 21st |
OPPORTUNITIES 65* This e-list is an information service from the Women Peacemakers Program (WPP). For more information about WPP, please see the bottom of this email.
Contents
1. Call for Participation: WPP Seminar in Celebration of the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament – The Hague , The Netherlands
2. Call for Participation: Women Peacemakers Program on Facebook
3. Call for Applications: WPP Consultation: “Interfaith Peacebuilding: The Need for a Gender Perspective” – Cyprus
4. Call for Applications: Training Unarmed Civilian Peace Keeping September 3 -11, 2010 – France
5. Call for Applications: New Courses by the 2010 International Women's Human Rights Education Institutes – Toronto , Canada
6. Call for Participation: US University is Seeking Peacemakers for Interviews
7. Resource: "Women Conscientious Objectors - An Anthology", the New Publication by War Resisters’ International
8. Resource: Philippines Adopts National Action Plan for UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820
9. Resource: Religion and Peacebuilding Toolkit by the United States Agency for International Development
10. Resource: 2009 Gender Report Card on the International Criminal Court
11. Resource: UNIFEM Launches Global Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women and Girls The United Nations
12. Resource: From Pacification to Peacebuilding – A Call to Global Transformation – New Publication by Diana Francis
13. Resource: Grants for Women Organizations: The Sister Fund
14. Resource: Rape Must Never be Minimized as Part of Cultural Traditions according to
Margot Wallström, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict
15. Job Opening: Human Development Officer (Gender Equality) – Pacific Community (SPC) – New Caledonia
16. Job Opening: Programme Manager – International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) – Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
17. Job Opening: Paid Internship at the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) Secretariat – Brussels , Belgium
1. Call for Participation: WPP Seminar in Celebration of the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament – The Hague , The Netherlands
In light of the celebration of the International Women’s Day of Peace and Disarmament (May 24), the Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) is organizing a meeting “Together for Transformation” - Exploring Masculinities, Violence, and Peace”.
This meeting will take place on May 27, 2010, at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague , the Netherlands .
The meeting aims to provide a forum to share information and raise awareness on the topic of masculinities and peacebuilding. It will:
Initiate discussion on the contributions men can make in relation to the topic of women, peace and security.
Discuss the relevance of including a masculinities perspective in peacebuilding.
Provide a platform for men working on the issue of gender and peacebuilding; to share their experiences and challenges; as well as (effective) strategies to address them.
Present some of the lessons learned and recommendations resulting from the WPP’s pioneering Training of Trainers Program “Overcoming Violence Exploring Masculinities, Violence, and Peace”.
Panelists will be:
International Crisis Group: Donald Steinberg
MenEngage
Women In Development Europe - WIDE
International Action Network on Small Arms – IANSA: An Vranckx
Clingendael Institute: Rosan Smits
Institute of Social Studies: Dubravka Zarkov
Please note: only limited places available and registration via email is required.
For more information and registration please contact José de Vries: j.devries@ifor.org
2. Call for Participation: Women Peacemakers Program on Facebook
Since April the Women Peacemakers Program is also present on facebook. Join us on facebook for more information and discussion on issues related to gender, peacebuilding and nonviolence!
To join the WPP facebook group, please visit: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=108512025838748&ref=search&sid=565758390.3280427240..1
3. Call for Applications: WPP Consultation: “Interfaith Peacebuilding: The Need for a Gender Perspective” – Cyprus
Deadline: April 20, 2010
The Women Peacemakers Program will be organizing an international consultation on “Interfaith Peacebuilding: The Need for a Gender Perspective” in September 2010.
Participants will analyse -using a gender-perspective- the multiple roles of religion in current conflicts, both as cause of war and as incentive to peace building.
Criteria for the participants:
- Has to be involved in activities on:
- On peace building
- On gender
- Faith/interfaith.
- gender awareness
- Shows motivation
- Should be part of women rights movement, WPP contacts, IFOR’s BGAs, Academic or Theologians, faith/Interfaith Organizations or peace organization working on Interfaith.
- Committed
- Culturally sensitive and sensitive towards other religions/faiths
- Good English
- Peace organization who work on interfaith.
- Progressive religious representatives.
- Only women
The deadline for application is extended until 20 April. We are especially inviting women from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and indigenous religions.
For more information, including the application format, please visit: http://www.ifor.org/WPP/
4. Call for Applications: Training Unarmed Civilian Peace Keeping September 3 -11, 2010 – France
Deadline: June 30, 2010
Unarmed Civilian Peace keeping is a form of intervention in conflict zones. Managed by international governmental or nongovernmental organizations, these missions aim to lessen violence or, where possible, to put an end to it in order to create the conditions for a political transformation of the conflict.
This 8-day training is organized by Le Comité pour une Intervention Civile de Paix, Le Collectif Guatemala , Nonviolent Peaceforce, Peace Brigades International.
The training has two main learning objectives:
- To introduce the trainees to the concept of Unarmed Civilian
Peace Keeping;
- To allow them to experiment with some dimensions of the work.
The content of the training will be:
• The key principles and values underpinning Unarmed Civilian Peace Keeping, namely: Nonviolence, Nonpartisanship, and Conflict Sensitivity;
• The key strategies that can be used by unarmed civilian peacekeepers to protect civilians and create safe space for civilians to transform their own conflicts;
• The key actors in the field, their relations to other actors, and their role in the protection of civilians;
• The circumstances (local, national and international) under which this type of intervention is warranted (the opportunities and limits of the work);
• Basic personal and collective security guidelines and procedures.
For more information, please visit: www.interventioncivile.org
5. Call for Application: New Courses by the 2010 International Women's Human Rights Education Institutes – Toronto , Canada
Deadlines: May 15 and July 15, 2010
The Institute brings international and Canadian participants to a critical and visionary program with an integration of theory and practice, research, reflection and action. Participants can choose to attend the full Six Week session or the embedded One Week Session focused specifically on the CEDAW Convention.
The two new courses by the 2010 Women’s Human Rights Education Institutes (WHRI) are now open for enrollment. Participants will have the unique opportunity of having an extended period of time to learn from their instructors and a multi-national group of participants, to theorize about their own work through the lens of women’s human rights, to develop new techniques as women’s human rights educators, and to prepare an action plan for how to implement their learning.
The two courses are:
1. WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS: BUILDING A PEACEFUL WORLD IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
Dates: July 19-August 26, 2010
2. WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS! CEDAW for Change
Dates: August 16-20, 2010
For more information on course content and how to apply, please visit: http://learnwhr.wordpress.com/programs/whri/
6. Call for Participation: US University is Seeking Peacemakers for Interviews
Do you want students in the US to know more about your peacemaking projects?
A university class in the US is seeking peacemakers to interview about local projects to decrease violence. Those selected will be interviewed by email and tape recording. We are seeking information about successful projects in local communities which have changed situations of violence.
If you are interested in being interviewed, please email DeEtte Beghtol Waleed at deettebw@gmail.com with a description of your successful project.
7. "Women Conscientious Objectors - An Anthology", the New Publication by War Resisters’ International
War Resisters' International is now publishing "Women Conscientious Objectors - An Anthology", edited by Ellen Elster and Majken Jul Sørensen, with a preface by Cynthia Enloe.
As WRI's chair Howard Clark writes in his preface: "In several senses, an anthology such as this is long overdue. First in the sense of acknowledging this part of the relatively hidden history of antimilitarism. Second for War Resisters' International organisationally. Founded in 1921, WRI has for much of its history been male-dominated, despite the prominent role of women in various affiliates and with certain exceptions at the international level such as long-serving WRI General Secretary Grace Beaton. Since 1972 conscious efforts have been made to change this — first the introduction of inclusive language (s/he, etc), and then, beginning in 1976, the organisation of special women's gatherings, usually in conjunction with WRI's “elder sister” the International Fellowship of Reconciliation.
The idea of the book was developed at the WRI seminar in South Korea in 2005. However, as often with publications mainly bringing together contributions from activists, it took a while to make it happen. Almost five years later, it is done: on 23 April, "Women Conscientious Objectors - An Anthology" will finally be launched on April 23, at Housemans bookshop in London , with the editors and some of the contributors present.
For more information on how to order the book, please visit: http://wri-irg.org/node/9873
8. Resource: Philippines Adopts National Action Plan for UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820
In compliance with two United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR), the Philippines have finally adopted a National Action Plan (NAP) for the protection of women during armed conflict.
With this, the Philippines has become the first Asian country to come up with an action plan as required by the UNSC Resolutions 1325 and 1820 for UN member countries to implement measures to strengthen and protect the rights of women and ensure peace and security.
In line with this, President Arroyo has signed Executive Order 865 creating a National Steering Committee on Women, Peace and Security to implement the UN resolutions and provide funds for it amounting to P5 million. Additional funding will come from the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process.
Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Annabelle Abaya, who led the formal launching ceremony in partnership with the Philippine Commission on Women and Sulong CARHRIHL (Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law) at the ESI Building of Miriam College in Quezon City , lauded this development.
(Source: Daily Tribune)
To read the article, please visit: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100326nat3.html
9. Resource: Religion and Peacebuilding Toolkit by the United States Agency for International Development
An example of efforts to improve governmental engagement with religion is a new USAID toolkit on religion and peacebuilding. It is "intended to help USAID staff and their implementing partners understand the opportunities and challenges inherent to development programming in conflicts where religion is a key component." The toolkit contains summaries of four actual USAID programs that have successfully engaged religious actors.
To download the toolkit, please visit: http://click.newsletters.usip.org/?qs=d4ccdb9f9ea4afd58c60afe910c164d55b95237e0d4683cad9331cf716fe36a3
10. Resource: UNIFEM Launches Global Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women and Girls The United Nations
The Global Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women and Girls is an online resource in English, French and Spanish, designed to serve the needs of policymakers, program implementers and other practitioners dedicated to addressing violence against women and girls. The Centre is an initiative of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), bringing together the valuable contributions of expert organizations and individuals, governments, United Nations sister agencies, and a wide range of relevant actors. Part of the overall effort is encouraging shared ownership of the site and ongoing partnership-building for its continuous development and sustainability.
The primary purpose of the Global Virtual Knowledge Centre is to encourage and support evidence-based programming to more efficiently and effectively design, implement, monitor and evaluate initiatives to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls. To achieve this, the Global Virtual Knowledge Centre offers a ‘one stop’ service to users by making available the leading tools and evidence on what works to address violence against women and girls. It draws on expert recommendations, policy and program evaluations and assessments, and fundamentally, on practitioners’ experiences from around the world.
For more information, please visit: http://www.endvawnow.org/?internalpage=7
11. Resource: 2009 Gender Report Card on the International Criminal Court
The Gender Report Card analyses the institutional developments at the International Criminal Court (ICC) during 2009, as well as the Court’s substantive work. The review of the ICC’s substantive work includes a summary of the investigation and prosecution strategy of the Office of the Prosecutor, analysis of key judicial decisions particularly on issues affecting victims and witnesses, and the work of the Registry and Trust Fund for Victims. The 2009 Gender Report Card contains a new section on trial proceedings that highlights testimony by victims of sexual violence in the ICC’s first trial. The Gender Report Card 2009 provides the most comprehensive gender analysis of the ICC currently available.
To read the report, please visit:
http://www.iccwomen.org/news/docs/GRC09_web-2-10.pdf
12. Resource: From Pacification to Peacebuilding – A Call to Global Transformation – New Publication by Diana Francis
Does conflict transformation work? Diana Francis reviews developments in the field over the past twenty years. She recognises that it has helped those engulfed in violent conflict to respond constructively, but also warns that the real requirement for peace is a global rejection of militarism.
In an original and radical analysis, Francis argues that the dominant culture of power, resting on coercion and violence, must be displaced by the principles of interdependence, kindness and nonviolent solidarity. This is the only way that pacification - efforts to dominate and control - will be replaced by genuine peacebuilding. She calls upon peacemakers worldwide to embrace and develop the practice of nonviolent power, rejecting the culture and institutions of war and working with movements around the world for global demilitarisation and ‘positive peace’.
For more information on how to order the book, please visit: http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745330266
13. Resource: Grants for Women Organizations: The Sister Fund
The Sister Fund is a private foundation that supports and gives voice to women working for justice from a religious framework. We call these women the Healers of Our Time, because we believe that the healing work of progressive religious women plays a crucial role in the development of a society in which all people can be socially, economically, politically and spiritually empowered.
The Sister Fund's belief that women can transform faith, and faith can transform feminism, is the inspiration for our funding and programmatic work. We are committed to bold woman-centered philanthropy and the empowerment of progressive religious women, because we believe these forces heal. And healing is the life work of this foundation. The Sister Fund provides grants, technical support, communication tools and multifaith dialogue and networking opportunities in the form of public programs and events. Using these tools, we support organizations led by religious women seeking justice for women and girls and secular organizations that partner with women of faith.
For more information on granting guidelines, please visit: http://www.sisterfund.org/process/granting-guidelines
14. Resource: Rape Must Never be Minimized as Part of Cultural Traditions according to
Margot Wallström, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Sexual violence during conflicts is all too often downplayed and treated as part of local cultural traditions instead of being viewed as a war crime, a senior United Nations official has warned as she called for much greater international action to defeat the scourge.
Margot Wallström, the recently appointed Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, voiced concern about the “lingering assumption that sexual violence is a tradition, rather than a tactic of choice” by groups engaged in war.
To read the article, please visit: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34205&Cr=sexual&Cr1=
15. Job Opening: Human Development Officer (Gender Equality) – Pacific Community (SPC) – New Caledonia
Deadline: April 30, 2010
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is an international organisation that provides technical and policy advice and assistance, training and research services to its Pacific Island members. It works in a wide range of sectors, including natural resources (agriculture, fisheries and forestry), health, statistics, human development, human rights, information and communication technology and social issues.
SPC was established in 1947. It has 26 member countries and territories and its working languages are English and French.
SPC’s headquarters are in Noumea , New Caledonia . It has regional offices in Suva , Fiji Islands, and Pohnpei , Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and a country office in Honiara , Solomon Islands .
The Human Development Programme is part of SPC’s Social Resources Division, and is responsible for developing and delivering programmes related to youth, gender equality, culture and community education and training. The programme brings together these areas of development in a more comprehensive and analytical approach to social development issues. It also has the responsibility of integrating these issues across the work of other SPC divisions and programmes, such as health and human rights.
The position is responsible to the Human Development Adviser (Gender Equality) and has particular responsibility for working with and supporting his/her work in implementing SPC’s gender equality initiatives, as stipulated in SPC’s Corporate Plan and the Human Development Strategic Plan, and guided by the Pacific Platform for Action for Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women, the gender dimensions of the Pacific Plan, and other regional and international gender and women’s human rights frameworks
For more information on how to apply, please visit: http://www.spc.int
16. Programme Manager – International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) – Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
Deadline: April 23, 2010
The International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) is an international NGO based in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia . We work through collaborative projects, with women’s organisations nationally, regionally and internationally to build capacity of relevant institutions and to promote the domestic application of international human rights standards in relation to women’s rights. For this, we focus on the UN CEDAW Convention and increasingly, where relevant, other human rights treaties. Our activities include conducting training, research and expert group meetings, as well as running a website and producing publications.
The Programme Manager will report to the Executive Director and will provide strategic planning and management support to the development, implementation and evaluation of effective, timely and appropriate projects and programmes.
As part of the management team, she will also contribute to the overall effectiveness of the organisation in meeting its goals and objectives and in maintaining its practice principles.
For more information on requirements and how to apply, please visit: http://www.iwraw-ap.org
17. Job Opening: Paid Internship at the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) Secretariat – Brussels , Belgium
Deadline: April 30, 2010
The EWL calls for applications for an internship at the EWL Secretariat, 6 months full time (July-December 2010, Brussels ).
Starting date: 01.07.2010
Interviews will be conducted by phone or in Brussels as appropriate in May 2010 (date to be confirmed to shortlisted candidates). Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please note that the EWL won’t be able to reimburse expenses for interviews
Please fill in the application form on the website to apply, CVs will not be considered. Information, job description and application form are available under:
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WPP is a program of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). Founded in 1919, IFOR is an inter-faith movement committed to active nonviolence, with branches and affiliates in over 40 countries.
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