8 – 11 June 2015
Women in War’s second Annual Conference is organised in partnership with the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) at the Lebanese American University Beirut and Beit Al-Hanan (Evelyne Accad).
“Upholding Gendered Peace at a Time of War: Academics and Activists Speak Out on the Shifting Places of Women in the Arab World”
Women in War, is a non-profit organization and think-tank focusing on the role of gender in armed conflict. Since 2008, Women in War has been active in seminars and conferences to innovate and promote the study of Gender and Armed Conflict . This is the academic branch of a French NGO founded in 2000, FemAid which works with women’s grass-roots organizations in war zones.
Background
Exploring the way gender issues intersect with the war (understood in the widest possible sense) has been researched by a number of independent feminist scholars especially in the Anglo-Saxon world, but is, as yet, sadly lacking in Latin countries, especially France and even more so in most conflict zones on the globe.
The first ever seminar on Gender and Armed Conflict in France at the Sorbonne, organised by Carol Mann with Jane Freedman to which researchers, experts and PhD students were invited to present their works based on field study in conflict zones all over the world. This inspired the president of Women in War to institute the teaching of Gender and Armed Conflict at the American Graduate School in Paris and the Institut des Sciences Po from 2013 onwards
Further conferences were organized with Amnesty International at AUP in Paris and with the Women’s rights Association ‘Ni Putes, ni Soumises’
Seminars on Women in War have been organised in Kabul, Kinshasa, Kisangani, talks given in Peshawar, Beersheva, Kragujevac, Sarajevo, Beirut.
Since 2013 Women in War has a second base in Sarajevo and joint projects are organized including a conference on the Place of Women in War 1914-2014, June 7- 8th 2014.
Details of the 2015 Beirut Conference here
