J Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Conference

2016 Women, War and Peacebuilding

Utah Valley University

March 23-24, 2016

 

Day #1, Wednesday, March 23, 2016

9:00

Introduction to conference: Dr. Lynn England, Director of Peace and Justice Studies, UVU  [Do we want to invite Matt Holland, Bonner Ritchie, Jeff Olson, or Dean Yells to Welcome the guests to UVU?]

 

Keynote Speaker Day #1: Mr. Chukwuemeka Eze, Executive Director, West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Methods of Peacebuilding and Women’s Participation

 

10:00-12:00

Panel Discussion: Women’s Role in Peacebuilding

Delphine Ndayikeza, World Outreach, Grassroots Peacebuilding

Susan Merrill, The Mitchell Group, Women’s Role in the Peace Process

 

Panel Discussant: Kelli Muddell, International Center for Transitional

Justice, Columbia University or Mayesha Alam, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, Georgetown University

 

12:00 Brown  Bag Lunch

 

1:00 Panel Discussion: Women as Refugees: A Gendered Transition

 

       Dr. Gerald Brown, Director, Utah Governor’s Office on Refugees

Women as Refugees: A Gendered Transition

                      Dr. Mara Rabin, Executive Director, Utah Health and Human Rights

Gender Based Violence and Trauma

                      Samira Hamrish, Women of the World, Salt Lake City

 

3:00 Student Presentations  (See Call for Papers)

 

5:00 Training Workshop: Women’s Role in Grassroots Peacebuilding

Delphine Ndayikeza, World Outreach

Sara Hamilton, Peacebuilding Practitioner, UK and Burundi

 

Discussant: Mr. Chukwuemeka Eze, Executive Director, West African Network for

Peacebuilding (WANEP)

 

Day #2, Thursday, March 24, 2016

10:00 Keynote Speaker Day #2: Mayesha Alam, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, Georgetown University, (Women, Security, and Transitional Justice-example title, title not confirmed)

 

11:30 Workshop:  Women and Human Rights

 

Dr. Erika George, Co-Director Center for Global Justice, College of Law, Professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, (title not confirmed)

 

Dr. Elizabeta Jevtic-Somlai, Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, BYU, Child Soldiers: The Child’s Role in Warfare

 

1:00 Luncheon Keynote Speaker: Kelli Muddell, International Center for Transitional

Justice, Columbia University, (title not confirmed)

 

2:30 Panel Discussion: The Global Dimension of Women and Security

 

Nahla Valji, Officer in Charge, U.N. Women, Peace & Security Section (Person

and title not confirmed.)

Kif Augustine Adams, Female Jurisprudence, BYU College of Law, (title not

confirmed)

Natalie Romeri Lewis, Senior Project Associate, The WomanStats Project &

Adjunct Professor, International Development, BYU, Women, Peace,

and Security: the Next Decade of Global Policy

 

Discussant: Mayesha Alam, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and

Security, Georgetown University

 

5:00 Training Workshop: Utah Council on Health and Human Rights

Women as Victims of Violence and Trauma: How to Help with the Healing

Process (Oriented toward local community groups and religious

organizations.)

 

5:00 Training Workshop: Development as a Career

Susan Merrill, The Mitchell Group, Governmental and Private Sector

Michael Minch, Summit and Philosophy, Research and Data

Warner Woodruff, NGO sector

Ann Demarco, student involvement

Kelli Muddell,  The International Community

(Oriented toward students.)

Conference Booths

Women of the World - Samira Harnish

 

Utah Council of Health and Human Rights

 

Musana Jewelry - Melissa Sevy (Musana is a fair-trade and public health organization which enables women in Uganda to sell jewelry in the US and receive health evaluations and paychecks in exchange.)

    

      The WomanStats Project - WomanStats coders