Peacebuilding and Development Summer Institute
American University
Gender, Peacebuilding in Development Context
Professor Julie Mertus
Syllabus
Description: This intensive course examines the role of governmental and nongovernmental actors in addressing gender issues in peacebuilding and post-conflict development projects. Designed as an interactive workshop, the course introduces participants to tools for gender analysis and provides experience in applying these tools to development and peacebuilding. The course will be of interest to practitioners and upper-level students in the field of development who wish to build their knowledge and skill base pertaining to gender and conflict issues. At the same time, it will appeal to practitioners and upper-level students in the conflict resolution and peace studies fields who wish to learn more about gender and development. Making full use of its location in Washington D.C., the course exposes participants to a number of individuals who present specific examples of gender programming at three levels of activity: the local or grassroots, the state or national level, and international institutions and other multinational spaces.
Requirements: All participants are required to attend every session and to participate actively. All participants will present a group project on the last day of class in which they apply one of the gender analysis frameworks discussed in class to a case study. Participants taking this for 2 credits will hand in a paper on the case study (due on the last day) as well as a series of handwritten reflections and “blue book” exercises, as indicated in the syllabus. Students desiring to take the class for 3 credits should see the professor for permission and guidelines.
About the Instructor:
Julie Mertus is an Assistant Professor at
American University's School of International Service. She
is Co-Director of the MA program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs. A
graduate of Yale Law School, she has been a United States Institute of Peace
Senior Fellow, MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Harvard Law School Human Rights
Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, Counsel to Human Rights Watch, a Law and Religion
Fellow at Emory University and, most recently a Rockefeller Foundation visitor
at Dartmouth College. She has also served as a consultant on human rights and
humanitarian issues to UNHCR, the Watson Institute for International Affairs,
OXFAM, the Soros Foundation, and many other nongovernmental and
intergovernmental organizations. She is the author or editor of over three
dozen academic articles and book chapters. Her books include: Kosovo: How
Myths and Truths Started a War (U. Cal. Press 1999), War's Offensive
Against Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in
Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan
(Kumarian, 2000), and The Suitcase: Refugees' Voices from Bosnia and Croatia
(U. Cal. Press, 1999). In 2003 Professor Mertus received the SIS Faculty Award
for Outstanding Curriculum Development, and in 2003 the SIS Faculty Award for
Outstanding Scholarship and Professional Service.
MAIL: mertus@american.edu
WEB: http://academic3.american.edu/%7Emertus/index.htm
Schedule:
Guest:
Martine Vandenberg, formerly of Human Rights Watch
Readings:
Women’s Leading Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace, Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women, pp. 5-14, 63-65
Kamla Bhasin, Understanding Gender (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 2000), pp. 1-23
Candida March, Ines Smyth, anad Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks (London: OXFAM, 1999), Chapter 2.2 Harvard Analytical Framework and People-Oriented Programming (Gender Analysis Framework)
Candida March, Ines Smyth, anad Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks (London: OXFAM, 1999)Chapter 2.6, Women’s Empowerment Framewowrk
Exercises:
Introduction to
Workshop
Active Learning Exercise on Expectations
First Impression: Gender, Peace building and Development
Introduction to Social Origins of Gender: What I like/what I do
Useful Definitions-- Gender
Leading to Choices: Empowerment Framework
Introduction to Women’s Empowerment Framework
Applying the Empowerment Framework (write in blue book)
Introduction to Harvard Analytical Framework and People-Oriented Programming
Day One Assessment
Tuesday, July 15
II. BRINGING IN CONFLICT
CASE STUDY ON 1325
Guests:
Melissa Brown, U.S. Agency for International Development:
Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, Executive Director, Women Waging Peace
Readings:
Gender, Peace & Conflict (2001) Skjelsbaek, Inger and Dan Smith. Eds. Sage Publications.
Chap 3. Is Femininity Inherently Peaceful? The Construction of Femininity in the War by Inger Skjelsbaek (pp. 47-67)
UNHCR Training on Prevention of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Richard Strickland and Nita Duvvury, Gender Equity and Peacebuilding: From Rhetoric to Reality – Finding the Way, International Center for Research on Women, 2003
Elizabeth Rehn and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Women, War Peace, pp. 127-138; 63-74
Women, Peace and Security Audit: A Policy Audit From the Beijing Platform for Action to UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and Beyond. By Sanam Anderlini. 2001 (cover, pp. 11-42)
http://www.international-alert.org/women/polaudit.pdf
Security Council Resolution 1325: Women, Peace and Security
http://www.international-alert.org/women/resolut.pdf
Exercises:
Providing Feedback on Day 1
Applying POP (write in blue book)
Comparing Empowerment and POP Frameworks
Is Femininity Peaceful? Photo Exercise
Useful Definitions: Gender and Conflict
Gender and peace building: Lessons Learned/What We Can Do
Group Profile Exercise
Assessment of Day 2
Wednesday, July 16 WID AND GID
THE MOSER FRAMEWORK
CAPACITIES/ VULNERABILITIES APPROACH
Guest: Nadereh Chamlou, World Bank
Readings:
The Women, Gender & Development Reader. (2000) Visvanathan, Nalini, Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff, and Nan Wiegersma. Eds. Zed Books.
Introduction by Nalini Visvanathan (pp. 17-32)
The Making of a Field: Advocates, Practitioners and Scholars by Irene Tinker (pp. 33-41)
Candida March, Ines Smyth, anad Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks (London: OXFAM, 1999), Chapter 2.3 Moser Framework
Candida March, Ines Smyth, anad Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks (London: OXFAM, 1999), Chapter 2.5 Capacities And Vulnerabilities Analysis Framework
Exercises:
Group Planning
Providing Feedback on Day 2
Introduction to Moser Framework
Using Moser Framework (write in blue book)
Open-Closed Questions
Introduction to Capacities and Vulnerabilities Framework
Comparison of Moser and Capacities and Vulnerabilities Frameworks (write in blue book)
Assessment of Day Three
Thursday, July 17
MAINSTREAMINING MEN IN GENDER, PEACEBUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT
CASE STUDY: GENDER AND PEACEBUILDING IN KOSOVO
Guests:
Melissa Stone, former Gender Advisor to Prime Minister of Kosovo
Charli Carpenter, MacArthur Fellow (mainstreaming men)
Readings:
Sylvia Chant and Matthew Gutmann, Mainstreaming Men into Gender and Development (London: Oxfam: 2000), pp. 1-29
Melissa Stone and Vjosa Dobruna, The Therapeutic Value of Activism: Albanian Women in Post-War Kosovo (unpublished paper, cir. 2003)
Jock Baker and Hilde Haug, The Kosovo Women’s Initiative: An Independent Evaluation, November 2002 (excerpts)
Women, Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding: Global Perspectives by Sanam Anderlini, Rita Manchanda and Shereen Karmali 1999
http://www.international-alert.org/women/confrep.pdf (cover and pp. 34-42; 51-65)
Women and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Issues and Sources
Political Reconstruction: Liberation Movements and Women's Liberation; Peace-Building Activities - Formal Negotiations
http://www.unrisd.org/wsp/op3/op3-03.htm#TopOfPage
Exercises:
Small group work
Providing Feedback on Day Three
Kosovo Case Study
Mainstreaming Men into Gender and Development (write in blue book)
Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder Exercise
Assessment of Day 4
Friday, July 18
V. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Guest: Charlie Pontichelli, U.S. State Department (head of gender issues)