BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8e8003348dda46935cb9c91617b57be5 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121113 SUMMARY:"Women, Peace and Security Agenda of the United Nations" - A Talk by Dr. Catia Confortini, Wellesley College, USA LOCATION:Tagore I Lecture Theatre\, FLAME University Campus DESCRIPTION:\n\nCatia Confortini\nAssociate Professor of Peace and Justice Studies\n\nS cholar and activist around issues of peace and gender.\n\nCatia Cecilia Con fortini holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California's School o f International Relations as well as a Masters Degree in International Peac e Studies from the Joan B. Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Her book entitled Intelligent Compassion: Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (August 2012, Oxford University Press) examines the evolving and gendered understandings of pea ce in the longest-living and arguably most influential international women' s peace organization in the world. Her research interests focus on the cont ribution of women's peace activism to peace studies as an academic field an d as a practice. Her work on feminist peace studies is published in the Int ernational Feminist Journal of Politics, Feminist International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and Future (eds Laura Sjoberg and J. Ann Tickner, Routledge 2011), Gender, War and Militarism (ed. by Laura Sjo berg and Sandra Via, Prager 2010), the International Studies Association's Encyclopedia, Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, Peace Review, and Peace and Freedom, the magazine of the US Section of the WILPF. She is program chair-elect of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of th e International Studies Association (ISA), a member of the ISA Peace Studie s Section, of the ISA Professional Development Committee, and of the Peace and Justice Studies Association.\n\nBesides her academic work, Dr.Confortin i has been involved in peace and justice activism at the local and internat ional levels. She worked as a volunteer counselor/advocate for a domestic v iolence shelter in Long Beach, CA. She collaborated with a human rights org anization and ran women’s human rights workshops in Chiapas, Mexico. She or ganized educational forums, and coordinated fundraising events for internat ional peace organizations. She worked to mobilize support for several Calif ornia legislative initiatives, such as the reform of the California Three S trikes Law, a death penalty moratorium and opposition to a California const itutional amendment precluding marriage rights to same sex couples. She is the US representative to WILPF’s International Board for 2011-2014.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:



Catia Confortini
Associate Professor of Peace and Justi ce Studies

Scholar and activist around issues of peace and gende r.

Catia Cecilia Confortini holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California's School of International Relations as well as a Maste rs Degree in International Peace Studies from the Joan B. Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Her book entitled Intelligent Compassion: Fe minist Critical Methodology in the Women's International League for Peace a nd Freedom (August 2012, Oxford University Press) examines the evolving and gendered understandings of peace in the longest-living and arguably most i nfluential international women's peace organization in the world. Her resea rch interests focus on the contribution of women's peace activism to peace studies as an academic field and as a practice. Her work on feminist peace studies is published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Fem inist International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present, and F uture (eds Laura Sjoberg and J. Ann Tickner, Routledge 2011), Gender, War a nd Militarism (ed. by Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via, Prager 2010), the Inter national Studies Association's Encyclopedia, Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, Peace Review, and Peace and Freedom, the magazine of the U S Section of the WILPF. She is program chair-elect of the Feminist Theory a nd Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA), a member of the ISA Peace Studies Section, of the ISA Professional Developme nt Committee, and of the Peace and Justice Studies Association.

Besides her academic work, Dr.Confortini has been involved in peace and jus tice activism at the local and international levels. She worked as a volunt eer counselor/advocate for a domestic violence shelter in Long Beach, CA. S he collaborated with a human rights organization and ran women’s human righ ts workshops in Chiapas, Mexico. She organized educational forums, and coor dinated fundraising events for international peace organizations. She worke d to mobilize support for several California legislative initiatives, such as the reform of the California Three Strikes Law, a death penalty moratori um and opposition to a California constitutional amendment precluding marri age rights to same sex couples. She is the US representative to WILPF’s Int ernational Board for 2011-2014.

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