[hr-education-na] Summer Institute in Human Rights and Peacebuilding (Toronto, May 3-Jun 15, 2004)

Hello,

Please find attached the announcement for the Summer Institute in Human
Rights and Peacebuilding, coordinated by Alda Facio and taught jointly
with Angela Miles and Anne Goodman, at the Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education.  I think this announcement will be of interest to the
listserve.

Angela Lytle

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WOMEN, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACEBUILDING IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
MAY 3-JUNE 15, 2004

ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

The Centre for Women's Studies in Education and the Transformative
Learning Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the
University of Toronto, are pleased to announce a six week Summer Institute
from May 3 through June 15, 2004 on "Women, Human Rights and Peacebuilding
in an Era of Globalization".

The Institute brings feminist perspectives and an activist orientation to
the inextricably related issues of peace, human rights and life-sustaining
development. Human rights, peace, and emerging alternatives to
globalization will be examined both as interconnected elements of a
socially just and sustainable world and as alternative ways of knowing,
acting, being, and interacting. Students will gain an understanding of the
global economic, ecological, legal, cultural and political contexts of
this work, as well as of the vital and groundbreaking work that is
currently being done and has been done over decades by women and men
around the world.

Important milestones, such as the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of
all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Security Council
Resolution 1325, the Beijing Platform for Action, and Women's Action
Agenda 21, will be featured. Women's historical struggles for their
adoption, their potential as resources for social change, and effective
ways of using them as tools for practice will be explored.

Courses:  Women Becoming Human:  Engendering Human Rights Activism;
Globalization, Gender and Feminist Alternatives
Community-Based Peacebuilding

Alda Facio is Director of the Summer Institute, which offers courses also
by Anne Goodman and Angela Miles with guest presentations by Peggy
Antrobus, Ana Isla, and Ilana Landsberg Lewis. All instructors have
extensive activist experience at local, national and international levels
and are known for their theoretical, academic and policy contributions in
these areas (see profiles below). Faculty profiles, full course
descriptions and other information including the Application form:
<http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~cwse/summerinst.htm>http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/%7Ecwse/summerinst.htm


TUITION

Summer Institute May 3-June 15, CAD$2,000 / US$1,700
Community Peacebuilding only, May 18-23, CAD$500 / US$400 (half price for
Toronto residents)
(Please note: Payment must be made by bank draft or money order, in
Canadian funds drawn on a Canadian bank or in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S.
bank, payable to "Centre for Women's Studies in Education OISE/UT")

ACCOMODATION: U of T Student Housing Summer Residences
<http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/StudentHousing/index.cfm?fuseaction=section&Section=51&category=2>http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/StudentHousing/index.cfm?fuseaction=section&Section=51&category=2

For further information regarding enrollment, contact
Pat Doherty, Executive Assistant, Centre for Women's Studies in Education
OISE/UT, 252 Bloor St. West Room 2-225, Toronto, ON  M5S 1V6, Canada
Tel. (416) 923-6641 ext. 2204,  pdoherty@oise.utoronto.ca.

For academic information, contact Angela Miles, 1-416-923-6641x2344,
amiles@oise.utoronto.ca, Alda Facio, Director, afacio@oise.utoronto.ca or
Anne Goodman, agoodman@oise.utoronto.ca.

DIRECTOR

     Alda Facio is a feminist human rights activist, jurist and writer. In
September 1996, she was awarded the first Women's Human Rights Award from
International Women, Law and Development in Washington D.C. As one of the
founders of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice in the International
Criminal Court, she was its first Director. Since 1990, she has been the
Director of the Women, Gender and Justice Program at the United Nations
Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention (ILANUD) based in Costa
Rica.

      She has written hundreds of articles on feminist issues and women's
human rights published in various books, Law Reviews and newspapers and
magazines, including FEMPRESS (a feminist Latin American news agency) for
whom she was a correspondent for fourteen years.



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