Gender, Conflict and Disaster in South Asia
Subject: [invites]
Workshop on Gender, Conflict and Disaster in South Asia
From:
"mercykappen" <mercykappen@yahoo.com>
Date:
November 21, 2007
Workshop on
Gender,
Conflict and Disaster in South Asia
4 -6, March 2008,
Visthar, Bangalore
Dear
Friends,
Greetings!
This
letter is to invite you / your organization to take part in a workshop on Gender,
Conflict and Disaster in South Asia that Visthar is organizing between
4 -6, March 2008.
We, at
Visthar, are concerned that over the last ten years emergencies in the South Asian
region have increased. Emergencies include disasters and
conflicts. The 2004 tsunami affected several parts of South Asia, and so did the
earthquake 2005. The region experiences frequent droughts and
floods. Apart from these disasters, which are partially human-made, the
region has also witnessed conflicts. Nepal has seen armed insurgence by
the marginalized against the previously ruling monarchy and the
government. In Sri Lanka ethnic conflicts have periodically
brought life to a halt. In India, the people in North East feel totally
marginalized from the rest of the country, and in some parts have taken to
arms. Conflicts are high between dominant Hindus and Muslims in
Gujarat. In Kashmir, struggle over nationality continues.
Conflicts
and disasters affect women and men differently, and different groups of women and
men differently. During the Asian tsunami, more women
than men died in South Asia; while in conflicts perhaps more men than women die. The
relief and rehabilitation needs of women and girls in both
conflict and disaster situations are different from that of men and boys, as well
as their needs for protection from gender based violence.
Women are rarely involved in planning of disaster or peace responses at
community, district or national level. While post emergency
rehabilitation offers opportunities for redistributing assets in a transformative
manner, this potential is hardly tapped and gender relations get
reproduced. On the other hand young girls are being drawn into conflicts in
different ways. It is in this context that Visthar has sought to
organize this workshop on Gender, Conflict and Disaster.
Objectives
The
workshop seeks to help participants:
*
Examine the range of disasters and conflicts in South Asia at national and
community levels, and reasons for the same
*
Examine the involvement of
women/girls and men/boys (of different social and economic
backgrounds) in conflict situations
*
Explore the gender (and socially)
differentiated impact of disasters and conflicts on women/men and
girls/boys' survival, access to basic
needs., access to
protection, livelihoods and shelter
*
Examine the gender (and socially)
differentiated participation of women and men in disaster and conflict
response.
*
Examine the policies of the government and UN agencies in the
region on disaster and conflict/peace from a gender perspective.
*
Examine participant NGO's disaster and conflict response
strategies from a gender lens
*
Evolve action plans to strengthen
gender (and social relations) perspective within interventions of
NGOs on disaster and conflict
The
workshop, spread over three days, will be facilitated by Ranjani.K.Murthy,
David Selvaraj and Mercy Kappen. Other resource persons will be
called as and when necessary.
Participants
The
workshop is designed for senior staff of NGOs, CBOs and other Civil Society
Organizations in South Asia. The medium of communication will
be
English.
Three
minimum conditions may be kept in mind while choosing participants:
* The
participant should be from senior management level of the organization.
* An
important part of the job description of the participant should
be to work on issues of emergencies or/and conflicts
* The
person should be fluent in reading and speaking English.
Workshop
fee and registration
The
workshop fee is Rs. 2000 /-(Rupees two thousand only).This will cover the cost of
board and lodging, and training materials. Interested candidates are
requested to fill in the enclosed form and mail it to us before the 5th
of February 2008 with a cheque / draft for Rs. 2000/- drawn in favour of
Visthar, Bangalore. A few scholarships are available for non-funded
organizations on a `first come first served basis'.
For
further details contact
Mercy
Kappen
mail@visthar.org or mercykappen@yahoo.com
Phone
(080)28465294/5, 65349491, 9945551310
www.visthar.org
We look
forward to hearing from you about your interest in the workshop.
Warm
regards,
Mercy
Kappen / Ranjani K. Murthy
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Workshop
on
Gender, Conflict and Disaster in
South Asia
4 -6,
March 2008, Visthar, Dodda Gubbi Post, Bangalore 562149
email:
mail@visthar.org , mercykappen@yahoo.com
(080)28465294/5,
65349491
Please
fill in the following details and mail it to us with a cheque or draft
for Rs.2000/- drawn in favour of Visthar.
01.
Name of the participant
02.
Sex and Age
03.
Educational Background
04.
Languages Known (Read, write, speak)
05.
Address, Telephone number & Email
06.
Nature of current work/involvement
07.
Any specific expectations?
Signature
of the participant
