As the DFID-funded Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) draws to a conclusion, we are pleased to invite participants to share and discuss key findings from our gender research.
The conference will showcase new findings, and bring us into conversation with other researchers and practitioners, on three themes:
Throughout, contributors will reflect on methodological and ethical challenges in conducting gender research on political settlements.
At the conference, we will also formally launch the PSRP Gender Theme feminists@law journal Special Issue, with a Roundtable of policy-makers and practitioners reflecting on what we have learned about gender and inclusion through the PSRP.
The PSRP is a north-south academic-practitioner research consortium led by the University of Edinburgh Global Justice Academy, and including the Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute, Conciliation Resources, Rift Valley Institute and the Institute for Security Studies. Gender is a cross-cutting theme across the research programme, as well as the focus of several individual research projects. For further information on PSRP, please consult our website: www.politicalsettlements.org.
Nahla Valji, Senior Gender Adviser, Office of the UN Secretary-General
For further information about the conference, please contact Dr Catherine O’Rourke, cf.orourke@ulster.ac.uk.
Time | Session |
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9am | Arrival and Registration |
9.30am | Opening and Welcome Christine Bell and Catherine O’Rourke |
9.45am | Keynote Address Nahla Valji, Senior Gender Adviser, Office of the UN Secretary General |
10.30am | Panel 1 Christine Bell & Kevin McNicholl, University of Edinburgh, Principled Pragmatism and the ‘Inclusion Project’: Implementing a Gender Perspective in Peace Agreements Sophia Close, Conciliation Resources, Gendered Political Settlements: Examining Peace Transitions in Bougainville, Nepal and Colombia Kris Brown, Ulster University, Political Commemoration and Gendered Peacebuilding |
11.30am | Coffee |
11.45am | Panel 2 Zahbia Yousuf, Safterworld, Conducting Gender Labs: Mapping Inclusion in Practice Catherine Turner, Durham University, Promoting Inclusion through Networks of Women Mediators: New Trends and Research Directions Fidelma Ashe, Ulster University, LGBT+ Inclusion Fiona Mackay, University of Edinburgh, New Institutions, New Gender Rules? A Feminist Institutionalist Lens on Women and Power-Sharing |
1.15pm | Lunch |
2pm | Roundtable, Special Issue Launch To launch the PSRP Gender Theme feminists@law journal Special Issue, this roundtable of policy-makers and practitioners will reflect on the gender and inclusion findings of the PSRP. Áine Hearns, Director, Conflict Resolution Unit, Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Mireille Affaa Mindzie, Policy Specialist, Peace and Security, UN Women Rosy Cave, Head, Gender Equality Unit & Office of the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, Human Rights Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Róisín Gallagher, Programme Development Advisor, Gender & Inclusion, Christian Aid Ireland Kellie Turtle, Women’s Sector Lobbyist, Women’s Resource and Development Agency, Northern Ireland |
3.30pm | Coffee |
3.45pm | Panel 3 Jessica Doyle, Domestic Violence Against Women and Inclusion Louise Mallinder, Amnesties and Inclusion Catherine O’Rourke, Women’s Rights in Conflict under International Law and Inclusion |
4.45pm | Concluding Comments |
5pm | Conference Close |