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The 2000 Research Symposium
Panelists
Panelist Index
Select a panelist's name
or browse the full list of panelists to see biographies of 2000 Research
Symposium participants.
Panelist Biographies
Shelley
Anderson
Worked for over two decades in the peace movement at the community, national,
and international levels. She has led conflict resolution trainings in many
countries and written extensively on women's peace building initiatives. For
the last five years she has coordinated the Women Peacemakers Program, which
she developed for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). IFOR,
founded in 1919, is an international movement for nonviolent social change
with branches in over 40 countries.
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Rita
Arditti
Member of the Core Faculty at Union Institute. Born in Argentina, she earned
a doctorate from the University of Rome and has held positions as a research
scientist and associate in Rome, Geneva, Naples, and at the Harvard Medical
School. Her most recent book, published by the University of California Press
this past Spring, is Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo
and the Disappeared Children of Argentina. She has written extensively on women's
issues and cancer, new reproductive technologies, and questions of Jewish identity.
She is an activist on women's medical issues; a founder of New Words, a women's
bookstore in Cambridge; and a board member of the Sojourner Feminist Institute.
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Amrita
Basu
Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College.
Her main areas of interests are social movements, women's activism, and religious
nationalism in South Asia. She is the author of Two Faces of Protest: Contending
Modes of Women's Activism in India, the editor of The Challenge of Local Feminisms:
Women's Movements in Global Perspective, and co-editor of Appropriating Gender:
Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia and Community Conflicts
and the State in India.
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Sara
Cobb
Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Her
research addresses the social construction and transformation of conflict narratives;
she has examined the way stories function to create conflict, and how they
can be transformed in conversations. Her current projects include research
on human rights and co-existence in the context of international ethnic conflicts.
She has published widely in books and journals and has consulted to national
and international organizations, providing expertise on negotiation and systemic
problem solving in the context of multi-party conflicts. Dr. Cobb earned her
Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Cynthia
Cockburn
A researcher and writer based at the School of Social and Human Sciences at
The City University in London, where she is an Honorary Research Professor
in Sociology. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Link�ping,
Sweden, in 1991. Her interests have developed from local democracy and community
action to gender (particularly masculinity) in contexts of changing technologies
and labor processes, and to women and equality in trade unions and other organizations.
Since 1995 her principal research focus has been gender and national identities
in war and peace making, with particular reference to Northern Ireland, the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her research interest
is now closely linked to her chosen activism, which is in women's international
movements opposed to war and militarism. Some of her published titles are The
Local State: Management of Cities and People (1977), Brothers: Male Dominance
and Technological Change (1983), Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical
Know-how (1985), In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations
(1991), and The Space Between Us: Gender and National Identities in Conflict
(1998).
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Malathi
de Alwis
Senior Research Fellow at the International Center for Ethnic Studies (ICES)
in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and presently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
at the New School for Social Research, NY. She received her Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural
Anthropology from the University of Chicago and is co-editor, with Kumari Jayawardena,
of Embodied Violence: Communalizing Women's Sexuality in South Asia (Delhi:
Kali for Women/London: Zed Press, 1996). Many of her articles focusing on feminist
and peace movements in South Asia, gender, nationalism, militarism, and humanitarianism
have been published internationally. Dr. de Alwis is a founder-member of the
National Women's NGO Forum and the Womens' Coalition for Peace (Sri Lanka),
and she is a regular contributor to "Cat's Eye" - a feminist column on contemporary
issues - in the Island Newspaper.
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Isha
Lanla Dyfan
A lawyer and activist from Sierra Leone who has dedicated her life to the pursuit
of peace and gender equality. She was born in Sierra Leone and educated there
and the UK; she practiced law for 15 years in Sierra Leone before seeking asylum
in the US. Ms. Dyfan was a leader in Sierra Leone's women's movement and participated
in political and peace processes from 1991 to 1996; she presently supports
peace efforts in Sierra Leone through the Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom's UN Office. She continues to work closely with civil society
organizations in Sierra Leone and throughout the diaspora, and is the current
public relations contact for the Federation of African Women's Peace Movements.
Ms. Dyfan has acted as a consultant to UNDP and DESA and recently completed
research on women's peace building efforts in Africa.
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Cynthia
Enloe
Professor of Government and Women's Studies at Clark University in Massachusetts.
She is the author of several books, including Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making
Feminist Sense of International Politics, The Morning After: Sexual Politics
at the End of the Cold War, and, just published, Maneuvers: The International
Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives. This year she is a Radcliffe Fellow
at the Bunting Institute, Harvard.
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Wenona
Giles
An anthropologist and Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson
College, York University; Associate Director, Centre for Feminist Research,
York University; and Coordinator of the Women in Conflict Zone Network. Her
research focuses on the areas of gender, ethnicity, nationalism, migration
and refugee issues, militarization, and the gender relations of globalization.
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Pumla
Gobodo-Madizikela
Visiting Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School
of Government. She received her BA in Social Work and an Honors BA in Psychology
from the University of Fort Hare, an MA in Clinical Psychology from Rhodes
University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Cape Town. Dr.
Gobodo-Madizikela spent three years as a member of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission in South Africa, coordinating all TRC public hearings throughout
the Western Cape. She will spend her year at the Carr Center completing And
the Brokenhearted Shall be Healers, a book which utilizes psychology and political
theory to examine the dynamic of forgiveness between perpetrators and victims.
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Joshua
Goldstein
Author of International Relations (Addison-Wesley Longman, 4th ed. 2001 [July
2000]), a best-selling college textbook. His first book, Long Cycles: Prosperity
and War in the Modern Age (Yale University Press, 1988), traces the connections
of economics and great power wars over five centuries. Three-Way Street: Strategic
Reciprocity in World Politics (Chicago University Press, 1990; co-authored
with John R. Freeman) analyzes Cold-War relations among the United States,
the Soviet Union, and China. His new book, War and Gender: How Gender Shapes
the War System and Vice Versa, will be published by Cambridge University Press
in 2001. Goldstein has contributed articles on international relations to the
American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal
of Conflict Resolution, World Development, Futures, and elsewhere. Goldstein's
recent research on great-power management of regional conflicts includes articles
on the Middle East, Kosovo, Bosnia, and Korea. He teaches courses at American
University on world politics, international political economy, theory, and
research methodology.
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Donna
Hicks
Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution
(PICAR) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
PICAR is devoted to advancing the understanding of international and interethnic
conflicts, and to developing interactive problem-solving processes that can
be effective in managing or resolving such conflicts. Dr. Hicks has been involved
in numerous unofficial diplomatic conflict resolution efforts including projects
in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Colombia, and Cuba. Her research interests focus
generally on issues of reconciliation and specifically on examining ways in
which the conflict resolution, international development, and human rights
communities can work together to develop an integrated approach to sustainable
conflict transformation. In addition to teaching conflict resolution at Harvard
and Clark Universities, Dr. Hicks conducts training seminars in the PICAR methodology
in the US and abroad.
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Deborah
Kolb
Co-Director of the Center for Gender in Organizations and Professor of Management
at the Simmons College Graduate School of Management, and a Senior Fellow at
the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where she co-directs the
Negotiations in the Workplace Program. Her research examines how women (and
men) can become more effective problem solvers by mastering the dual requirements
of empowerment and connection in negotiation. She has published several books
and numerous articles, including The Mediators (MIT Press, 1983), an in-depth
study of labor mediation; and Making Talk Work: Profiles of Mediators (Jossey-Bass,
1994), a study of the practice of successful mediators; and The Shadow Negotiation:
How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas that Determine Bargaining Success (with
Judith Williams, Simon and Schuster 2000). Dr. Kolb is also involved in a number
of projects that link strategic business concerns with gender, diversity, and
work and personal life issues. She was the co-principal investigator of a major
action research project carried out on work/life integration in three corporations.
She is a Co-Faculty Editor of the Negotiation Journal, and on the editorial
board of the Journal of Conflict Resolution. She received her Ph.D. from the
Sloan School of Management at MIT, where her dissertation won the Zannetos
Prize for outstanding doctoral scholarship; a BA from Vassar College; and an
MBA from the University of Colorado.
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Radha
Kumar
Senior Fellow in
Peace and Conflict Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and Director
of the Council's Program on Ethnic Conflict, Partition, and Post-Conflict Resolution.
Her books include Divide and Fall?: Bosnia in the Annals of Partition (1997),
Bosnia-Herzegovina Between War and Peace (1993), and A History of Doing: An
Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India (1993).
She has been a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute of War and
Peace Studies at Columbia University, the World Institute of Development Economics
Research in Helsinki, and the Women's Program at Sussex University, and she
has been Executive Director of the International Secretariat of the Helsinki
Citizen's Assembly in Prague and Special Rapporteur for Sarajevo for that organization.
Ms. Kumer is a prolific writer of articles and op-ed pieces, is frequently
interviewed on CNN, BBC and elsewhere, and has spoken to a wide variety of
groups, including a recent keynote speech for the Berkshire Conference of Women
Historians.
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Rita
Manchanda
Journalist, writer, researcher, and activist on human rights, democracy, and
security affairs, with a specialty in South Asia and human security. Ms. Manchanda
is currently a Programme Executive for the Peace Studies and Refugee Rights
Advocacy Programme of the South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) in Kathmandu.
She is also the coordinator of the project Strengthening Women's Agency for
Peace: Living in Situations of Armed Conflict in South Asia, and is the joint
coordinator with the Minority Rights Group (London) of the Workshop and Media
Project on Impact of Armed Conflict on Minority and Indigenous Children held
in Kathmandu in summer 2000. Ms. Manchanda is both a print and TV journalist
and has been published in Express Group, The Telegraph, Indian Post, Sunday
Observer, Far Eastern Economic Review, and is a contributor to The Observer
London, South Magazine. Ms. Manchanda received a Masters in Philosophy and
International Relations, with an unfinished Ph.D. thesis, "Iran and South Asia," at
the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva. She
was a Research Officer for the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis,
New Delhi, and a Lecturer in English at Delhi University. She is also a National
Committee member of the Pakistan-India Forum for Peace and Democracy and a
member of the movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament.
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Jane
Mansbridge
Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government and Faculty Chair of the School's Women and Public
Policy Program. She is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy and Why We
Lost the ERA (co-recipient of the American Political Science Association's
Kammerer Award in 1987 and the Schuck Award in 1988), editor of Beyond Self-Interest,
and co-editor, with Susan Moller Okin, of Feminism. Her current research includes
work on feminism, representation, trust, coercion, and deliberation in democracy,
the public understanding of collective action problems, and the effect of nonactivists
on social movements.
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Dyan
Mazurana
Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Montana.h.D., Women's
Studies, Clark University. Her research, publications, and teaching focus on
women, peace, women's human rights, and armed conflict. Recent publications
include Women and Peacebuilding (1999) and Raising Women's Voices for Peace
2001, both with co-author Susan McKay. Dr. Mazurnan was the 1999 Peace Research
Fellow of the International Federation of University Women, Geneva, and has
presented her work at numerous national and international conferences, and
has taught courses in the US, Finland, the Netherlands, and Hungary. She is
an External Faculty to the Lester Pearson Peacekeeping Centre where she designs
and teaches courses on gender and armed conflict to UN peacekeepers and UN
civilian police. She has also worked in this capacity with the Canadian and
British governments and various UN agencies. Currently, she is writing a report
on gender and peacekeeping and working with Susan McKay on research into the
experiences of girls in armed forces, paramilitaries and armed opposition groups.
She received her Ph.d in Women's Studies from Clark University.
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Susan
McKay
Professor of Nursing, Women's and International Studies at the University of
Wyoming and a psychologist in private practice. Her current work focuses upon
gender, armed conflict, and peace building, and she has published extensively
in these areas. Recent publications include "The Effects of Armed Conflict
on Girls and Women" in Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (1998), "From
War to Peace: Women and Societal Reconstruction" in The Women and War Reader
(1998), Women and Peacebuilding (1999, with Dyan Mazurana) and "Gender Justice
and Reconciliation" in Women's Studies International Forum (2000). Dr. McKay
is past president of the Division of Peace Psychology of the American Psychological
Association. She has been recipient of multiple awards including a W.K. Kellogg
Fellowship, DePauw University's Alumni Citation, Woman of Achievement designation
by the Wyoming Commission for Women, the University of Wyoming College of Arts
and Science award for Extraordinary Merit in Research in 1999, and the University
of Wyoming's Year 2000 Presidential Faculty Achievement Award.
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Valentine
Moghadam
Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois
State University. Dr. Moghadam is president-elect of the Association for Middle
East Women's Studies and is also a member of the Core Group of the project
on Peace and Change in the Euro-Mediterranean: Women Taking Action, coordinated
by the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna, Austria. Born
in Tehran, Iran, she obtained her Ph.D. in sociology from the American University
in Washington, DC and taught the sociology of development and women at New
York University. From 1990 through 1995 she was Senior Researcher and Coordinator
of the Research Program on Women and Development at the World Institute for
Development Economic Research Institute of the United Nations University and
was based in Helsinki, Finland. She was a member of the UNU delegation to two
UN conferences, the World Summit on Social Development (Copenhagen, March 1995)
and the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, September 1995). Dr. Moghadam
has written two books, Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle
East (1993), and Women, Work and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North
Africa (1998). In addition, she has edited six books, including Identity Politics
and Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective
(1994), Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies
(1993), and Patriarchy and Development: Women's Positions at the End of the
Twentieth Century (1996). Her current areas of research are on globalization,
transnational feminist networks, and civil society and citizenship in the Middle
East.
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Katharine
Moon
Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, teaching and
researching in International Relations and East Asian Politics. Dr. Moon's
Her areas of focus include gender and women in international politics, militarization,
and social movements in East Asia. She is the author of Sex Among Allies: Military
Prostitution in US-Korea Relations (Columbia University, 1997) and is currently
working on a book that examines the role of culture and gender in diplomacy
and negotiation. Her most recent articles include "South Korean Movements Against
Militarized Sexual Labor" (Asian Survey) and "Strangers in the Midst: Foreign
Workers and Korean Nationalism" (Korea's Globalization. S. Kim, ed.). She serves
on the editorial board of several international relations journals and as consultant
to several NGOs in the US and Korea. Born in San Francisco, Moon received her
BA from Smith College and her Ph.D. from Princeton University.
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Obioma
Nnaemeka
Director of Women's Studies Program and an Associate Professor of French, Women's
Studies, and African American Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis.
She is also a former Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence (University of Minnesota)
and Edith Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor (Northwestern University,
Evanston). Dr. Nnaemeka is Founder and current President of the Association
of African Women Scholars and the List Administrator of an Internet discussion
group on gender issues in Africa and the African Diaspora. She is on the Board
of Trustees of several Africa-based non-governmental organizations. She has
published extensively in the following areas: women/gender in development,
literature by Black women from Africa and the African Diaspora, feminist theory,
war and conflict resolution, gender and human rights, global feminisms, and
African oral and written literatures. In addition to her two edited volumes,
The Politics of (M)Othering (Routledge, 1997) and Sisterhood, Feminisms, and
Power: From Africa to the Diaspora (Africa World Press, 1998), Dr. Nnaemeka
has five books forthcoming: Marginality: Orality, Writing and the African Woman
Writer (Routledge), African Women and Imperialism, Engendering Human Rights,
Agrippa D'Aubigne and the Poetics of Power & Change, and Gender and Health
in Africa and the African Diaspora.
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Martha
Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University
of Chicago Law School. Ms. Nussbaum has honorary degrees from twelve colleges
or universities, including institutions in Canada, the Netherlands, Scotland,
and Belgium. Her nine books on ethics and practical philosophy have been translated
into several languages and won numerous awards. They include For Love of Country:
A Debate on Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism (1996), Sex and Social Justice (1999),
and Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach (2000). Some of
the ten books she has edited include Women, Culture and Development (1995),
Sex, Preference and the Family: Essays on Law and Nature (1997), Sexual Orientation
and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse (1998), Clones and Clones:
Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning (1998), and Is Multiculturalism Good
for Women? (1999).
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Susan
Perry
Political economist and specialist on development with degrees from Brown and
Yale Universities and the Sorbonne. Dr. Perry teaches International Affairs
at the American University of Paris and is the co-founder and organizer of
the "Women, Culture and Development Practices" an international conference
series held at the French Senate and funded by the French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, UNESCO and the OECD. She has taught in China as a Yale-China fellow
and written numerous articles on Chinese politics, economics and gender. She
appears regularly on French television and Web T.V. to discuss China's economy
and entry into the WTO. Her most recent article on women's political activism
in China will be published in her co-edited volume, Eye to Eye: Women Practicing
Development Across Cultures (Zed Books, forthcoming 2001). As a consultant
on women's issues for the US State Department's Africa Regional Services Program,
She has traveled widely in Africa. Dr. Perry was the State Department's Africa
Regional Services representative at the Women As Partners for Peace conference
held in Kigali, Rwanda in June 2000. Her work on the political economy of peace
and reconstruction will result in two forthcoming publications.
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Samantha
Power
Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government. She covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia
as a reporter for the US News and World Report and the Economist from 1993-1996.
In 1996 she joined the International Crisis Group (ICG) as a political analyst,
helping launch the organization in Bosnia. Ms. Power is currently writing a
book, The Quiet Americans (Random House, forthcoming), which examines US responses
to genocide since the Holocaust. She is a frequent contributor to the New Republic
and the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from
Inspiration to Impact (St. Martin's, 2000). Ms. Power is a graduate of Yale
University and Harvard Law School, and moved to the United States from Ireland
in 1979.
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Sara
Ruddick
Author of Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, Sara Ruddick has co-edited
three anthologies, most recently Mother Troubles: Rethinking Contemporary Maternal
Dilemmas. Currently she is co-editing the series Feminist Constructions for
Rowman and Littlefield. She has written essays on ethics, feminist theory,
and social philosophy and has contributed to several collections on women and
peace. Ms. Ruddick taught for many years at Eugene Lang College and the Graduate
Faculty of New School University and is now a Faculty Emerita. She is writing
a book on aging tentatively entitled Initiates of Time: Essays on Virtue and
Age.
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Sabine
Sabimbona
Member of the Parliament of Burundi and has been active as a negotiator in
the Burundi peace talks. Dr. Sabimbona is a founding member of the Executive
Committee of the Burundi Lawyer Women Association. She is also a founding member
and Legal Representative of the Association of Native-born, Friends of Mugano.
She is a member of the Executive Committee of CAFOB, which is an umbrella of
40 Associations of Burundi Women, and an activist for women's rights.
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Martha
Eugenia Segura
Executive Director of the Colombian Confederation of NGOs. The Confederation
of NGOs was created in 1989 as a United Nations project to act as a liaison
between the government, private sector, international agencies and NGOs. Ms.
Segura has published the NGO magazine "Colombia Responde" and several TV programs
about the project's experiences. During the last year, she also served as the
director for the Capacity Building Project for three NGO federations in violent
regions. Ms. Segura has worked in several different areas of the Colombian
government, including the Ministry of Education, the Rural Development Fund,
and the Program for State Modernization, where she was responsible for developing
labor adjustment programs for displaced workers. In 1994, she worked for the
NGOs network in Colombia as the director of labor adjustment project with 56
NGOs in five regions. Ms. Segura graduated in 1978 with a BA in Social Communication
and Social Marketing from Xavier University in Bogota, Colombia. In 1990, she
received an MBA, Master in Rural Development from Xavier University. She attended
formal training in the production of educational materials for teachers in
Germany and she participated in a formal training program in Japan on the use
of media in education.
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Eunice
Smith
Since joining UNESCO two and a half years ago, Ms. Smith has worked in the
Women and a Culture of Peace Programme, which seeks to mainstream a gender
perspective in the UNESCO transdisciplinary project Towards a Culture of Peace.
Activities undertaken have been in support of women's peace initiatives, to
empower women for democratic participation in political processes, and to contribute
to gender-sensitive socialization and training for non-violence and egalitarian
partnerships, focussing particularly on boys and young men. She has also been
actively involved in the development of UNESCO's print and electronic publications,
particularly the web site, "shadow editing" of the WCP flyer and the recent
UNESCO publication Male Roles, Masculinities and Violence: a Culture of Peace
Perspective, and drafting presentations, articles, and speeches related to
women and a culture of peace. Presently she is assisting in the organization
of the "Asian Women for a Culture of Peace" conference which will be held in
Hanoi, Viet Nam in December 2000, and in planning two sub-regional meetings
for Latin America and the Caribbean on overcoming gender-based violence. Her
academic background is in management studies (business and tourism) with a
Bachelors degree from the University of the West Indies and a Master's degree
from New York University.
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Judith
Stiehm
Professor of Political Science at Florida International University where she
served as Provost and Academic Vice President for four years. Dr. Stiehm has
taught at the University of Wisconsin, UCLA, and the University of Southern
California. She has been a Visiting Professor at the US Army Peacekeeping Institute
and at the Strategic Studies Institute at Carlisle Barracks. She earned a BA
in East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, an MA at Temple University
in American History, and a Ph.D. in Political Theory from Columbia University.
Her books include Nonviolent Power: Active and Passive Resistance, Bring Me
Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Arms and the
Enlisted Woman, and It's Our Military Too! Stiehm has served on the Defense
Advisory Committee on Women in the Military, the California Postsecondary Education
Commission, the California Vocational Education Commission, and as a consultant
to the United Nations Commission for the Advancement of Women. She is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations, holds the US Army Distinguished Civilian
Service Medal, and appears in the most recent edition of Who's Who.
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Jennifer
Seymour Whitaker
Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she serves as Director
of the Project on Women's Human Rights. The project explores the ways in which
the increased economic and political participation of women within their various
societies and at the international level may further US international security
goals, and helps situate the issue within the discussion of US interests for
both scholars and officials, focusing on how fundamental changes for women
call into question the usual definitions of US interests. Her work on Africa
started with her two-year stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria. Her
own publications during that period included Africa and the United States:
Vital Interests (NYU Press, 1978), and Crisis in Southern Africa (A Headline
Series Book, Foreign Policy Association, 1978). Subsequently, as Senior Fellow
for Africa, she initiated and co-directed the Committee on African Development
Strategies, which presented a commission report, The Compact for African Development,
at the UN Special Session for African Development in 1985. She also published
Strategies for African Development, winner of the World Hunger Media Award,
1986 (ed. with Robert J. Berg, University of California Press, 1986) and How
Can Africa Survive? (Harper & Row, 1988 and CFR paperback, 1989). Whitaker
has published numerous articles, reviews, and op-ed pieces in periodicals including
The New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and USA Today.
Her most recent book is Salvaging the Land of Plenty (William Morrow & Co.,
1994).
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Richard
Wrangham
Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. Dr. Wrangham major interests
are the relationship between ape and human behavioral evolution, and the conservation
of chimpanzees and other apes, which he has studied in Uganda since 1987. He
received his Ph.D. in Zoology from Cambridge University and was a Research
Fellow at King's College (Cambridge) prior to joining the Department of Anthropology
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and then the Biological Anthropology
Wing of Harvard University. Dr. Wrangham has authored over 100 publications,
including (with Dale Peterson) Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human
Violence.
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Nira
Yuval-Davis
Professor and Post-Graduate Course Director in Gender and Ethnic Studies at
the University of Greenwich, London. Dr. Yuval-Davis is past fellow or former
visiting professor at the Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research,
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Peace Research Centre and the Arts
Faculty at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics,
the Institute of Social Studies at the Hague, Ben-Gurion University in Israel,
and UMEA University in Sweden. She has organized many conferences, workshops,
and panels on Israel and the Palestinians; Power and the State; Women and National
Reproduction; Race, Ethnicity, Gender and the State; Israeli Society; Gender,
Race, and Class; Nationalism; and Women, Citizenship and Difference. Her extensive
publications include Gender and Nation (1997), Woman-Nation-State (1989), Unsettling
Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Class (1995),
and Women, Citizenship and Difference (1999).
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