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Used Gender-Sensitive Strategies

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Used Gender-Sensitive Strategies

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  1. Empowering Ourselves – Empowering Worldviolence prevention=peaceful cohabitationOlena Suslova, Women’s Information Consultative CenterGCTF-OSCE International Workshop on“Supporting Civil Society Initiatives to Empower Women’s Roles in Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism”Istanbul, 13-14 May 2014

  2. Used Gender-Sensitive Strategies • Empowering Education • Mobilization of/on Networking • Research

  3. Empowering Education – educational process based at gender equity and non-violence aimed at creating conditions for self-organization skills on agents for change through direct experience

  4. History • Empowering education program has worked in Ukraine since 1996. • Since 1999 it started developing at the international level, having expanded its activities now to 10 countries of the world. • For these years in Ukraine more than 15 thousand persons have got directly acquainted with the program, the main goal of which is forming gender sensitivity through school curricula and informal education.

  5. Changes, Limitations, Recommendations • Education gives long-term impact However • It is resource consuming process • It has no immediate results All forms of education (formal, informal, non-formal) need include part on peace

  6. Mobilization of/on Networking

  7. Women at Maidan Protests

  8. Changes, Limitations, Recommendations • Women’s networks efficiency However • Limited access to social media • Supportive strategy It is important to increase women’s capacity on ICT, etc.

  9. Research

  10. Changes, Limitations, Recommendations • Visibility and value of women’s participation in peace processes However • No immediate results • Supportive strategy It is important to do research on promotion women as a peacemakers not only victims

  11. Recent Strategies - Bridging

  12. Changes, Limitations, Recommendations • Communications between hostile parties • “Soft way to peace” However • Low impact • Long process “Women’s Diplomacy” needs long-term support in high risk areas of VERLT

  13. If we do not see a light ahead, we can light it ourselves

  14. Welcome! http://www.empedu.org.ua/eng

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