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Supporting inclusive peace through technology: PeaceFem app V2 now live

Leave a Comment / Blog, doing gender sensitive research, gender and politics, Update / By Hemangini Gupta

The PeaceFem mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacebuilding. Version 2 is now live with additional case studies and translations into French and Indonesian, alongside English and Arabic. Read more here. Author Bio PeaceFem is a collaboration between UN Women, Inclusive Peace, Monash University’s Gender, Peace and Security Centre, and PeaceRep: The …

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Upcoming GENDER.ED Event: Rediscovering Feminist Histories

Leave a Comment / Events, News, Update / By Shy Zvouloun

Together with IASH, GENDER.ED presents ‘Rediscovering Feminist Histories’, an event that will be running as part of the Being Human Festival 2021, on Thursday 18 November 2021 at 17.00 GMT. This hour-long online discussion explores how women’s histories are often forgotten, overlooked or actively suppressed. Bringing together historians, lawyers and literature experts, we will explore …

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‘Scratched Identities’: Shatha Altowai on Creating Art in Yemen

Leave a Comment / feminism, Update, women / By Shy Zvouloun

Yemeni artist and IASH/IIE Artist Protection Fund Fellow Shatha Altowai discusses her experiences of creating art as a woman in Yemen, as well as the common Yemeni practice of obscuring women’s faces in photographs. This piece by GENDER.ED student intern Shy Zvouloun is in advance of the artist’s second exhibition in Scotland: ‘Scratched Identities’.