Symposium on Gender and Security Sector Reform
Wednesday, January 16th, 1:00 to 5 PM*
Jennifer Klot, Cynthia Enloe and Carol Cohn will join with 25 senior women leaders from Afghanistan, Colombia, Haiti, Palestine, Israel and Liberia to explore cutting edge initiatives and issues in the transformation of the security sector in post-conflict settings.
This symposium is co-sponsored by the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University, the Boston Consortium, and the Social Science Research Council. It will be held in the Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
*If you can, please join us for lunch from noon to 1pm.
RSVP to naisha_bradley@harvard.edu to attend.
Consulting Perpetrators of Political Violence:
Protestant Women Paramilitaries and the Northern Irish Conflict
Monday, January 28th, 7 to 9 PM
Sandy McEvoy, Research Fellow at the Five Colleges Women's Studies Research Center, addresses the unexplored and often overlooked topic of women’s participation in Protestant paramilitary organizations in Northern Ireland during the country's thirty-year ethnic and religious conflict.
Location: Cabot 206, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Gentle Invasions:
NGO Funding and the Manipulation of Civil Society within
Transitional States
Tuesday, February 19th, 7 to 9 PM
Denise Horn, Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Northeastern University, will discuss the development of a new international regime in which hegemonic states have used funding for non-governmental organizations to manipulate the development of civil society in transitional states (Estonia, Moldova and Thailand).
Location: Cabot 206, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Conduct and Discipline in UN Peacekeeping Operations:
Culture, Political Economy and Gender
Tuesday, March 11th, 7 to 9 PM
Catherine Lutz, Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University, and Matthew Guttman, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, will report on research into the cultural and political economic roots of the sexual exploitation and abuse problem in Haiti, Lebanon, and Kosovo. The talk will focus on culturally varying notions about masculinity and sexuality, as well as reluctance within DPKO to talk about national and cultural issues in dealing with the problem of sexual exploitation.
Location: Cabot 206, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Challenges of Post-Conflict Peacebuilding:
A Dialogue on Violence, Gender and Security in Liberia
Tuesday, April 8th, 7 to 9 PM
Serif Turgut, former Head of Public Information Office for the Central Liberia at the United Nations Mission in Liberia, and Sharon Abramowitz, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Anthropology at Harvard University, will present a dialogue contrasting academic and practical reflections on gender, post-conflict reconstruction and humanitarian intervention in post-conflict Liberia.
Location: Cabot 206, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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