A Feminist Analysis of Peace Building in Ireland, North and Nouth

antrim | gender and sexuality | event notice Sunday January 28, 2007 14:14 by redjade

A public seminar:
Friday 23 February 11am - 3pm
at the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
Temple Court, 39 North Street
Belfast BT1 1NA

KEY NOTE SPEAKER: Cynthia Cockburn
CHAIR: Margaret Ward

PROGRAMME
11.00 Introductions and welcome
11.10 Margaret Ward and Joanna McMinn
The context: views from the north and south of Ireland
11. 30 Cynthia Cockburn
A feminist perspective on what happens when women are engaged in peace building, drawing on experience from different cultures and contexts
12.00 Roundtable Discussion
1.30 Lunch break
2.00 Roundtable Discussion continued
3.00 Finish

Margaret Ward is a feminist historian who has written a biography of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. Margaret is Chairperson of Hanna's House, and Director Women's Resource and Development Agency in Belfast.

Joanna McMinn is the Director or the National Women's Council of Ireland and a member of the Hanna's House steering group.

Cynthia Cockburn is a feminist researcher and writer working at the intersection of gender studies and peace/conflict studies. Her current research involves mapping and analysing feminist opposition to war as a growing, global, social movement.

more info at
http://www.activelink.ie/ce/active.php?id=3722