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| Leveraging Change: Women, Peace, and Security in the Balkans |
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| Start Date: | 4/19/2012 | Start Time: | 4:30 PM |
| End Date: | 4/19/2012 | End Time: | 6:00 PM |
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Event Description
The Women and Gender Studies Speaker Series, Global Studies in Gender and Sexuality, invites you to attend the talk "Leveraging Change: Women, Peace, and Security in the Balkans" with Jill Irvine,
Professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma.
This talk examines how regional and local women’s organizations in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo have used UNSCR 1325 as a tool for organizing and advocacy in three broad areas: women’s inclusion in decision making processes; regional and human security; and transitional justice.
In response to perceived unwillingness by international as well as national actors to implement UNSCR 1325, women’s organizations developed strategies to use this international norm to achieve their goals. Irvine asserts they have done this through a double ‘boomerang effect,’ mobilizing local support through grassroots campaigns and regional networks in order to force the United Nations and other international actors to comply with their own resolution concerning women, peace and security.
In doing so, they have achieved some success in promoting inclusion. They have been less successful in using UNSCR 1325 as a tool for addressing structural sources of inequality including militarism and neo-liberal models of economic development.
Jill Irvine is President’s Associates Presidential Professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence, and the Center for the Study of Conflict, Collaboration and Creative Governance.
For more information: http://wgst.colorado.edu/eventlist/leveraging_change. |
Contact Information:
Name: Women and Gender Studies
Phone: (303) 492-8923
Email: wgst@colorado.edu |
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This event is open to
Everyone |
Ticket information:
This event is free. |
Of note:
Refreshments will be provided. |
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