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Creating a Shared Society in post conflict society: Why we need to focus on GenderEquality
05/19/10

Public Lecture: “Creating a Shared Society in post conflict society: Why we need to focus on GenderEquality”- Dr Ann Marie Gray. ENG.

Time: 17:00

Location: CRRC-Azerbaijan, Khazar University, 122 Bashir Safaroglu Street, Baku, room # 13

Overview: International evidence has increasingly highlighted the necessity to understand the impact of conflict on the lives of girls and women and the importance of addressing gender equality as part of peace processes.  This paper draws on empirical research in Northern Ireland (which is emerging from over 30 years of violent conflict) to  argue that women, and especially young women, have been left out of much of the conflict discourse and there is subsequently little understanding of how the conflict has impacted them.  Women continue to be very under-represented in the new political institutions set up as a result of the Peace Agreements.  The findings show that while young women may have witnessed less of the conflict than their mothers or grandmothers they have been significantly affected by all that has taken place around and about them.   Their attitudes, opportunities and choices in many areas of their life have been restricted by growing up in a divided society.

Lecturer Bio: Dr Ann Marie Gray is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Administration at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.  She is also Policy Director of ARK (Access to Research and Knowledge in Northern Ireland).  ARK’s goal is to carry out high quality research and make information on social issues available to the widest possible audience.  In doing so it seeks to inform and stimulate policy debate and contribute to more effective policy making.  Dr Gray’s research interests include the relationship between lone parenthood and poverty and social exclusion, Youth policy and social attitudes.  She is currently an Open Society Institute International Scholar at Baku State University where she is working on the development of the Social Work Programmes.

Language: The lecture will be conducted in English.

Registration: To attend the presentation, please confirm your participation by writing to Aytan Mammadova via aytan.mammadova@crrccenters.org before May 18, 2010. Please indicate in the subject line “Creating a Shared Society in post conflict society”

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