Ying Yang (Gender Relations)

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Ying Yang (Gender Relations)

More and more, women affirm themselves as inescapable actresses of their society. Talking about the private or public sphere they bring a specific and critical points of view on different areas (sciences, philosophy, politics, ethics, culture, environment.).

Within this college, women try at the same time to understand the reasons of their marginalization and to develop their own vision of what tomorrow's world should be. With a long experience in organizing themselves and in networking, women all over the world (perspectives developed by feminism) represent a real strength for proposal.

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Toward a Female/Male balance	Proposal Paper
Documents	Experience Reports

Experience Reports

This file was written on the occasion of the participation of the "Yin Yang" (masculine-feminine) working group of an Alliance for a Responsible and United World at the Hague Conference from May 11th to 15th in response to the call of a hundred organizations representing civil society to commemorate the centenary of the first international peace conference, organized by Czar Nicholas II of Russia and the Queen of the Netherlands, and launch a detailed international action plan for the coming decades. This resulted in the Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st Century in the areas (...)

Israeli-Palestinian peace also requires deconstructing the myth of the enemy - Claire MOUCHARAFIEH -
Art and culture as peacebuilders - Lilia QUINDOZA SANTIAGO -
Armed Conflict in Burundi : Experience as an artist - Marie-Louise SIBAZURI -
Armed Conflict in Burundi : Experience as a woman - Marie-Louise SIBAZURI -
Building peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan - Rena TAGIROVA -
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Women’s Courts in Asia
:: Odile Albert :: February 2007 ::

In Southeast Asia, women are trying to make public opinion aware of the specific violence to which they are victims, whether during a situation of war or "peace", by gathering and diffusing testimonies, and by carrying out strong symbolic actions to highlight the lack of justice in this area. In 1986, some Asian met in Bangkok (Thailand) to discuss female fights in their countries. Following this meeting, the AWHRC was created, based on a fundamental principle: the humans right are also the women's rights. The AWHRC has started several notable initiatives covering four areas: research (...)

Synthesis of the discussion " Gouvernance power and democracy " :: April 2001 ::

Synthesis of the diferent discussions from the list: women@forums.alliance21.org, dealing with the elaboration of proposal for social transformations, from a women perspective. Several testimonies bring to think that formal feminine representation is not sufficient to have a shape of different governance, since, by perpetuating the authoritative patriarchal state, they can be on the initiative of no change. A real, concrete and meaningful representation of the women in the bodies of decision making is necessary if one wants to be able to break the inheritance of the system of (...)

Yin-Yang Workshop - Militarily incorrect women citizens
:: Nadia Leila Aïssaoui :: April 2000 ::

Andrée Michel, head of research at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and a feminist, decodes the economic reasoning that reinforces and legitimises the culture of war. She also exposes the patriarchal structure of societies that are built on the cult of violence and virility. For Andrée Michel the race for weapons is only the tip of the iceberg, whose immersed strata are composed of political power games for gaining supremacy, economic power games for gaining in economic competition through exploitation and finally at the base, a patriarchal culture that is founded (...)

A wide definition of war :: September 1999 ::

On the occasion of the Hague international conference on Peace (may 1999), the Yin Yan (masculine-feminine)workshop of the Alliance for a plural, responsible and united world gathered about 20 women from different countries active in peace movements for a 3-days workshop in Amsterdam. It entailed, by putting forward their experiences, collective consideration on the specific contribution of women to prevent and solve conflicts, thereby widening the scope to questioning the importance of gender difference in the organization of our societies, on the material level and on that of (...)

Women’s Role and Place in the Solidarity Economy Development
:: Morgane Iserte :: March 1999 ::

Proposal for the organization of a themed group within the solidarity socio-economy workshop. The Women and Economy workgroup has emerged following several initiatives. In issue number 2 of Caravane, the newsletter from the Alliance for a responsible and united world, Cécile Sabourin, Professor at the University of Quebec, launched the debate on women and solidarity economy. This initiative results from the concern shown by several allies, during the international meeting in Bertioga in 1997, to bring forward the issue on the position of woman in globalization as an issue that must be (...)

How to define a politics of help for the disadvantaged women?
:: Maria Rosa Lotti :: October 1998 ::

Seminar IRESCO - Contribution of Maria Rosa LOTTI This document is a note of Maria Rosa LOTTI, about her seminar at IRESCO. She exposes the experience of her association " Le Onde " to show how policies can allow vulnerable women to get out of a logic of pure assistance. This article develops the following topics: the analysis of the target; definition of a project for life for these women; advantages and limits to autonomy; definiation of economic development. Documents FR6 ko, 1 pages8 ko, 1 (...)

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