Abstract
What is the role of gender during conflict? What is the relationship between gender and a country’s tendency to go to war? How does gender matter in post-war reconstruction? On September 27th, students, practitioners, academics and activists will come together in Geneva to answer these questions.
This full-day workshop will include panels related to women, peace and security and will include paper presentations on relevant themes. There will be students and one to two practitioners on each panel, which will be led by an academic facilitator. The day will conclude with a roundtable discussion on connecting feminist theory and practice. This workshop presents a unique opportunity for students to communicate to practitioners and advocates in the Geneva policy community the rich academic research on gender, peace, and security being done by students within the field.
RGR (Reconstructing Gender Rights) is a new project co-organised by a number of students at the Graduate Institute, the Institute’s Programme on Gender and Global Change (PGGC) and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in response to the knowledge gap between academic work being done on gender, peace and security and the policy community.
Programme
9:00
Welcome and Introduction to the Conference
Elisabeth Prügl, Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
9:15-10:45
I. Panel: Gender Equality in Pre-Conflict Settings
Callum Watson, Master of International Affiars, The Graduate Institute, Girls, Gays and Guns: Integrating Women and Homosexuals into the Armed Forces
Analee Pepper, Masters in Development Studies, The Graduate Institute, Gender Analysis as a Predictor in Conflict Early Warning Systems: Theories from the Ivory Tower
Gillian White, Master of International Affairs, The Graduate Institute, Gendered Decisions: Gender Constructions Surrounding the Women in the Obama Administration During the Libyan Intervention"
Discussant
Madeleine Rees, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Geneva
Chair
Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment and Women's Studies, Clark University
10:45-11:15
Break
11:15-12:45
II. Panel: Gendered Violence and Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Environments
Stephanie Matti, Master of International Affairs, The Graduate Institute, Governing Sexual Abuse and Exploitation by Humanitarian Workers through Codes of Conduct
Audrey Reeves, PhD Student, The University of Bristol, Gender Mainstreaming and Emergent Governmentality in Peacekeeping Operations: A Foucauldian Approach to Gender and Peacekeeping
Saba Joshi, Master of International Relations/Political Science, The Graduate Institute, Waring Women: Comparing Female Participation in State and Nonstate Militaries
Discussant
Nadine Puechguirbal, Former Senior Gender Advisor for the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti
Chair
Hilary Charlesworth, Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice, Australian National University
12:45-13:45
Lunch
13:45–15:15
III. Panel: Gendered Roles and Constructions in Post-Conflict Environments
Lelde Ilzina, Master of International Affairs, The Graduate Institute, The Gendered Peace?: Women's Roles in Peace-building, A Case Study of Liberia
Roshni Kapoor, Master of International Affairs, The Graduate Institute Post Conflict Reconstruction: Why Masculinities in Matters in the DDR Process?
Jenni Ratilainen, Master of International Affairs, The Graduate Institute, NGOs' Constructions of Displaced Women in North and South Sudan
Discussant
Kristin Valasek, Geneva Center for Democratic Control of Armed Forces
Chair
Christine Verschuur, Senior Lecturer, Anthorpology and Sociology of Development, The Graduate Institute
15:15 -16:45
IV. Roundtable: Gender, Peace and Security: Future Opportunities for Convergence between Academics and Practitioners
Hilary Charlesworth, Cynthia Enloe, Madeleine Rees, Nadine Puechguirbal, Fenneke Reysoo, and Kristin Valasek
Moderator
Elisabeth Prügl, Professor, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
No registration required
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond, 132 rue de Lausanne, Site Barton
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