ISSUE 40: NOVEMBER 2005-FEBRUARY 2006

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Women learn how to make their mark in transitional societies

Twenty-one emergent women leaders from different backgrounds in transitional and post-conflict societies met in Amman, Jordan December 3-9 for the UNU International Leadership Institute (UNU-ILI) course Women Leadership in Transitional and Post-Conflict Societies: Capacity-Building through Participatory Knowledge Transfer.

The course was based on the idea that transitional and post-conflict societies offer critical opportunities for women to expand and consolidate their presence in public life. Course participants from Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Bahrain, Yemen, Indonesia, Ukraine, China and Peru addressed the problem of how to recognise and capitalise on these opportunities.

Participants engaged established women leaders in general discussion and debate to construct the life trajectories of women leaders from transitional and post-conflict societies. The learning approach was primarily experiential, included mentoring and training sessions on:

• Women leadership models;

• Gender and case study methodology;

• Leadership: learning from nature;

• Gender in post-conflict societies;

• Women’s coalition-building in conflict-torn societies.

The course was carried out in collaboration with the WESCANA office of the World Conservation Union, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, UN Relief and Works Agency, Queen Zein Al Sharaf Institute for Development and Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies.

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