CAW UPDATE
EVENTS
ADVOCACY
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
CONFERENCES/MEETINGS
TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, AND COURSES
RESOURCESAWARDS

CAW UPDATE

CAW Takes the Gender Audit to Ghana
Roster of CAW Fall Workshops
InterAction Forum 2003: Call for Suggestions for Plenary Speakers
Call Now to Get CEDAW Ratified!!
Send Us Your Thoughts on a Fifth High-Level UN Conference on Women in 2005

INTERACTION MEMBER AND PARTNER ORGANIZATION EVENTS

Women's EDGE Sixth Annual Conference: Does Trade Pass the Poverty Test? (Oct 15)
Business Women's Network Global Day (Oct 23)
Foundation and Leadership Skills for Gender Equality and Mainstreaming Workshop (Feb 21-24)

ADVOCACY

An Exercise in Outraged Democracy
Women Gain Last Minute Victory at Global Earth Summit
The Annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
California Governor Signs Landmark Bills for Women's Rights
Two Years On: What Happened Since the Passing of Security Council Resolution 1325?
Peace as a Theme for Ugandan Women at the World Summit for Sustainable Development

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Iraq's Little Secret (By Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times)
And Our Flag Was Still There (By Barbara Kingsolver, San Francisco Chronicle)

CONFERENCES/MEETINGS

HIV/AIDS: A Humanitarian and Development Crisis, Addressing the Challenges for PVOs and NGOs in Africa (Oct 16-17)
2002 Women Waging Peace Americas Regional Meeting (Nov 1-9)
From Costs to Benefits: 6th Symposium on Gender Research (Nov 15-17)
WARI: Gender Course and Conference (Mar 9-16)

 TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, AND COURSES

Reassessing Gender Training Workshop: Women's Rights and Citizenship in Egypt (Nov 3-4)
International Training of Trainers Workshop (Nov 18-23)
International Course: Gender and Peace Building (Nov 18-24)
Training of Trainers in Gender and Development (Dec 7-18)
Gender, Organizational Change, Agriculture and Leadership (Feb 10-28)

RESOURCES

BOOKS, REPORTS, & OTHER WRITTEN MATERIALS
Gender and Economic Justice in EU Accession and Integration
Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and HIV/AIDS
The Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict Transformation
The Human Rights of Women: International Instruments and African Experiences
Picturing a Life Free of Violence: Media and Communications Strategies to End Violence
Against Women
Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women
Making a Difference? Getting Serious About Gender and Participatory Development

Online Materials

WHO Publication: Transforming Health Systems: Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health
Domestic Violence in India: Exploring Strategies, Promoting Dialogue
National Women's Calendar
UNFPA Fact Sheets on Women's Issues
Brave New Women of Asia: How Distance Education Changed Their Lives
Gendering Demilitarization as a Peacebuilding Tool
Gender and Debt
New WIDE Information Sheet
New Publication: National Policies on Women and Science in Europe
Fast and Forward Series

Websites & Listservs

Gender Information Exchange (Genie)
African Women Lawyers Association
Coalition on Violence Against Women - COVAW
Women at Barcelona: XIV International AIDS Conference Website
The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) Website
INSTRAW: Gender Aspects of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development
International Telecommunications Union and Gender

AWARDS

New Voices Fellowship Grants
Fellowships on Global Security and Cooperation
National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference (Call for Papers)
Critical Matrix (Call for Submissions)
Grants for Research Collaboration in Conflict Zones
San Diego State University's Feminist-in-Residence Program
Women in a World of War and Militarization (Call for Papers)

Contact: Julie Montgomery
(202) 667-8227 X152
jmontgom@interaction.org

CAW UPDATE

CAW Takes the Gender Audit to Ghana

CAW Deputy Director Pat Morris and Program Associate Julie Montgomery have just returned from three weeks in Ghana where they conducted a Gender Audit Course for five InterAction members and two Ghanaian NGOs as well as facilitated completion of the Gender Audit Organizational Self-Assessment and Action Planning process with World Vision Ghana.

The Gender Audit Course was held in Accra from September 11 to 14, and included representatives from Red Cross Tanzania, OIC International, Pact, Project Concern International, and World Vision (Partnership Office, Ghana, Philippines, and Thailand), the Gender Development Institute of Ghana, and POSDEV. The purpose of this four-day course was to train the participants on how to plan and coordinate the Gender Audit process in their respective organizations and to develop and implement organization-specific gender action plans. The course included practical hands-on group exercises enabling participants to "learn by doing," i.e. mock focus group discussions and the development of an action plan.

When asked how the course will help them in their work, one participant explained "Although our organization might not yet be ready for the Gender Audit, the training will help the organization focus on how to incorporate gender into our activities. The CAW's Gender Integration Framework will help me build a consensus around gender in our organization. I will share what I have learned with the country director and my colleagues so that we can incorporate gender in all the activities we embark upon in our communities." Another participant felt that the training "really made her grow - both personally and professionally." Not only did she learn the skills of how to facilitate the Gender Audit, but the training was structured in a way that encouraged participants to learn, feel comfortable with the material, and strengthen their presentation and analysis skills.

After the Course, the CAW team spent a week and a half with the staff of World Vision Ghana on the analysis and action planning phase of the country office's Gender Audit. In August, the 200 plus World Vision Ghana staff members based across Ghana had completed the Gender Audit questionnaire; responses were sent to the CAW to be compiled into a report for staff to analyze. The analysis was conducted through a series of four focus groups. To ensure representation at all levels, participants were randomly selected based on their position within the organization. The focus groups were separated by position: 1) the senior management team (directors, associate directors, and coordinators); 2) managers and associates; 3) officers; and 4) support and assistants.

Out of the focus groups, a report was compiled which guided the development of an organizational gender action plan, addressing four components: political will, technical capacity, accountability, and organizational culture. Using the results of the questionnaire and focus group discussions, the Gender Task Force developed a very comprehensive draft action plan for World Vision Ghana. This plan was presented to senior management and will be distributed to all World Vision Ghana staff for comments. The Gender Task Force plans to have the final action plan ready for senior managements' approval by the end of October.

The Ghana Gender Audit was part of World Vision International's global gender equity initiative. In late October, Pat and Julie will travel to Sri Lanka to carry out the Audit with World Vision staff there.

In 2003, the CAW plans to make its Gender Audit Course available to the broader membership. If your organization would like further information, contact Julie Montgomery.

Roster of CAW Fall Workshops

Campaign for Gender Equity on Boards of Directors: Last spring, the CAW convened a workshop "Practical Strategies for Identifying and Recruiting Top-Notch Women for Your Board of Directors." The workshop was facilitated by Jennifer Rutledge, a nationally known expert on non-profit boards and diversity; based on popular demand, Jennifer will be back for a follow-up session on October 17, 3-5 p.m., via conference call. The CAW is experimenting with an "ask the expert" conference call format, rather than on-site workshop, so that InterAction members across the country can join in. There are still a few slots left for the conference call, so if you're interested, contact CAW research assistant Nadia Olson right away. The purpose of this follow-up session is to address your organization's own challenges or issues. Please send in questions in advance for Ms. Rutledge to address at the beginning of the call, and then we'll have a facilitated open dialogue on issues that arise.

Watch for an announcement soon for a special CAW Boards Campaign event in early November. In 2003, InterAction and Diversity Best Practices will undertake an initiative to promote both gender equality and diversity in the InterAction community. Diversity Best Practices provides conference calls, workshops, and informational services mainly to corporations on the promotion of diversity. InterAction and Diversity Best Practices have concluded an agreement that will give all InterAction members access to these services for one year. For more information on Diversity Best Practices, visit www.diversitybestpractices.com.

Dialogue Across Gender Differences: In 2001, the CAW collaborated with the Gender Development Institute in Ghana and Egerton University in Kenya on an initiative that explored male perspectives on gender. As a next step, the October workshop will engage participants in a new phase of inquiry, men and women in dialogue around a positive vision of how gender relations can evolve.

The workshop is based on a short book called A Male/Female Continuum-Paths to Colleagueship, a copy of which each workshop participant will receive. The book and the workshop take participants on a journey away from dominance and subordinance toward greater equity and empowerment with others.

A team of experts on power equity and gender relations who are partners in "new dynamics Consulting" will facilitate the workshop. The team consciously models a valuing of diversity in the facilitation process itself and includes the following members: Rick-Huntley, an African-American; Rianna Moore, a white American of European descent; and David Wagner, a white American of European descent and one of the authors of A Male/Female Continuum.

Workshop participation is limited to 30, with a balance of women and men to be included. There are just a few slots left. Contact Nadia Olson asap to be part of this unique inquiry (nolson@interaction.org).

Doing Rights-Based Development and Advocacy--A Bag-Lunch Book Launch and Presentation: InterAction's Committee for Development Policy and Practice and the Commission on the Advancement of Women invite you to a bag lunch on November 14 from 12-2 p.m. on cutting edge strategies for advocacy and citizen participation. During the preparatory meetings for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, InterAction sponsored a series of six country workshops around the world on women's rights and advocacy strategies. The workshops were designed and facilitated by Lisa Veneklasen, who subsequently went on to work with the Asia Foundation's Global Women in Politics Program, where her work in advocacy training was expanded. These experiences and many other experiences in participation, popular education and social change around the world have been compiled into a user-friendly training manual and guide, A New Weave of Power, People & Politics-The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation, authored by Ms. Veneklasen with Dr. Valerie Miller.

This new field manual provides a well-tested approach to rights-based development with a focus on promoting citizen participation. It breaks down the traditional boxes separating human rights, rule of law, development, and governance, and reconnects them in order to create an integrated approach to empowerment and policy change. A New Weave of Power, People & Politics combines concrete and practical action "steps" with a sound theoretical foundation to help users understand the process of advocacy planning and implementation. For more information on the manual and Ms. Veneklasen's current work, go to www.justassociates.org.

Please RSVP to Nadia Olson.

InterAction Forum 2003: Call for Suggestions for Plenary Speakers

InterAction's Forum 2003 will be held May 19-21 (save the dates!), and we'd like your input on speakers. The theme of the Forum is The Challenge of Global Commitments : Advancing Relief and Development Goals through Advocacy and Action.

In today's globalized world, there are clear expectations and demands by the American public, U.S. allies and the United Nations for multilateral approaches to global problems and for all nations to recognize and respect the need to work together for common solutions. Over the last decade, there has been a surge in global agreements, along with recognition that collective action for the global good and a common blueprint is necessary for moving forward. This Forum will explore the challenges of securing full participation for global consensus and mobilizing efforts to reach full implementation.

We would very much like your suggestions for plenary speakers, particularly women from the Global South. Please send names with brief background information by October 11 to Nadia Olson.

Call Now to Get CEDAW Ratified!!

Senate to Vote on Women's Treaty
October 8, 2002, National Ratification Call-in Day. Urgent calls are needed to U.S. Senate offices in support of the Treaty for the Rights of Women before the upcoming vote on the Senate floor. Also known as CEDAW (UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), the treaty is a powerful tool to promote the human rights of women and girls. The United States has long been a world leader on human rights. But U.S. failure to ratify the treaty allows other countries to distract attention from their neglect of women. Ratification does not require any change in U.S. law and would be a powerful statement of our continuing commitment to ending discrimination against women worldwide. The treaty's provisions are similar to existing treaties on genocide, torture, race, and civil and political rights. Get more information: www.womenstreaty.org or call Leila Milani (202/833-8990) or Reva Gupta (202/745-1211). All Senators need to hear from their constituents! Capitol Hill Switchboard: 202/224-3121.

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Send Us Your Thoughts on a Fifth High-Level UN Conference on Women in 2005

In June 2000, at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Beijing +5, the governments unanimously agreed: ". . . to regularly assess further implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action with the view to bringing together all parties involved in 2005 to assess progress and consider new initiatives, as appropriate, 10 years after the adoption of the Beijing PFA and 20 years after the adoption of the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies." The UN is not yet committed to having a fifth high level World Conference on Women (WCW) in 2005. The possibility of convening regional meetings instead is apparently also being taken into consideration. In the women's movements the pro's and con's of having an adequately resourced, high-level WCW are also being discussed. Whereas some argue that the fifth WCW in 2005 is crucially important for keeping up the global momentum and continuation of the process for empowerment of women, others fear a backlash: the risk to loose what was gained at earlier UN women's conferences seems greater than the chance to influence global players with a feminist agenda. More information about the debate can be found at the WIDE discussion forum at http://www.eurosur.org/wide/UN/WCW.htm.

Please send CAW (Nadia Olson) your thoughts on the issue by October 15 in order to provide important feedback and direction to the UN NGO Committee on the Status of Women which is compiling NGO positions.

Women's EDGE Sixth Annual Conference: Does Trade Pass the Poverty Test?
October 15, at the John's Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, D.C., 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This year's conference will explore the unintended impacts of global trade on the lives of poor women in developing countries. Join Women's EDGE as they launch the Look FIRST Campaign, a movement to bring gender considerations to the trade negotiating table using the Impact Review, an innovative tool designed to anticipate the effects of trade on poor women in the developing world. There is a registration fee of $35 to cover the cost of the event. Contact Andrea Greenblatt-Harrison at Women's EDGE at 202-884-8301 or aharrison@womensedge.org.

Business Women's Network Global Day
October 23, Washington DC. The Business Women's Network (BWN) invites you to participate in its second BWN Global Day at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. The goal of the global day is to empower women globally to be better business leaders. The Global day is a day that highlights women's and entrepreneur's interests from an international perspective. The BWN Leadership Summit and the Second annual National Diversity Gala, of which the Global Day is a part, will provide participants an unprecedented opportunity to network with leaders in business and government, provide mutual support in the ever-changing world of business, and learn best practices of top-tier organizations. To register, please contact: Leila Kerroudj, Project Associate, Government and International Projects, Business Women's Network, Phone: (202) 463-3796, leila@tpag.com, www.BWNi.com.

Foundation and Leadership Skills for Gender Equality and Mainstreaming Workshops
A new consulting firm, The Capacity Development Group, will host two workshops, each of them four days long, at the IBM Conference Centre in Palisades, just outside New York. The first highly participatory workshop entitled "Foundation Skills for Gender Mainstreaming: or how to be a Change Agent" (21-24 February 2003) is for middle management and program officers who are committed or mandated to gender justice, but feel uncertain where to start, or how to advocate in the most effective way. It is for those who want a practical understanding of what working for gender equality involves, and how to apply it to the work currently on their desks. The workshop is also valuable for those interested in organizational change more generally, and in developing a range of monitoring, information and knowledge management and process management skills.

The second workshop - "Facilitation and Leadership for Gender Equality" - explores the proposition that management for gender mainstreaming is very close to effective facilitation, while some management styles prevent gender mainstreaming from taking place, no matter how committed the manager concerned. The workshop is designed for managers and supervisors who have some experience of working for gender equality, and responsibility for gender programmes and gender mainstreaming processes. It is also of interest to trainers and capacity building specialists who would like to broaden their approach to capacity development through co-facilitation, and anyone interested in management in a learning organization. More details of these workshops, together with cost and registration information, and details of other services offered by the Capacity Development Group, can be found at the CDG website - www.capacitydevelopment.net - where you can also choose to subscribe to their free bi-monthly electronic newsletter Change Agent, full of tips and information on gender equality and organizational change.

ADVOCACY

An Exercise in Outraged Democracy

The U.S. Committee for the United Nations Population Fund is responding to a citizen initiative to replace part of the $34 million denied to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) by the Bush Administration in July. Peter Purdy, President of the U.S. Committee, praised Inland Planet, a west coast outgrowth of the Planet Campaign formerly funded by the Hewlett and Packard Foundations to encourage public support for international family planning. Jane Roberts, speaking on behalf of the Inland Planet, calls on Americans to "do the right thing even if the government won't." Inland Planet is calling on Americans to send in $1 dollar to help make up the difference. Their goal is to have 34 million Americans to do this, to make up for the $34 million denied to UNFPA. Inland Planet asks Americans to send $1 dollar to the U.S. Committee for UNFPA, 220 East 42nd Street, Suite 2800, New York, NY 10017. For more information on this campaign, please contact Jane Roberts at julianrob@aol.com or call 909.793.4578.

Women Gain Last Minute Victory at Global Earth Summit

As the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa drew to a close, delegates agreed to add language to the final plan that guarantees access to comprehensive healthcare and reproductive services for women. http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=6856.

The Annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign

November 25 to December 10. This campaign has been an organizing strategy by individuals and groups from around the world to call for the elimination of all forms of violence against women. Growing out of the Global Center's first Women's Global Leadership Institute in 1991, the Campaign links violence against women and human rights, emphasizing that all forms of violence, whether perpetrated in the public or private sphere, are a violation of human rights. For the past eleven years, over 1,000 individuals and organizations from over 100 countries have sponsored activities in their communities during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence to raise awareness about all forms of violence against women. Activists have used this 16-day period to create a solidarity movement that raises awareness around gender-based violence as a human rights abuse. The movement works to ensure better protection for survivors of violence and calls for the elimination of all forms of violence against women. During this year's campaign, advocates are encouraged to discuss and strategize around the link between culture and all forms of violence against women. If you have suggestions or would like to collaborate, please contact: Lisa M. Clarke, 16 Days Campaign Coordinator, Center for Women's Global Leadership,160 Ryders Lane, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555, email: lmclarke@rci.rutgers.edu or visit: www.cwgl.rutgers.edu.

California Governor Signs Landmark Bills for Women's Rights

In keeping with the state's status as a pioneer in the protection of women's rights, California Governor Gray Davis signed four bills that will ensure that CA women have access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare services. http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=6857

Two Years On: What Happened Since the Passing of Security Council Resolution 1325?

Some notable advances have been made since the first anniversary of the resolution of the Security Council on Women, Peace and Security - a wide range of activities and initiatives have emerged from the UN system, governments and non-governmental organizations. PeaceWomen considers it important to continue documenting the projects and programs around SC Resolution 1325 to monitor the progress and ensure all governments, UN agencies and NGOs are playing their role to ensure the implementation of 1325. The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security produced a document called One Year On, listing activities around Security Council Resolution 1325. If interested in the implementation of 1325 go to: www.peacewomen.org/un/UN1325/since1325.html. PeaceWomen is also interested in updating the One Year On document to produce a Two Year On document which will describe activities, initiatives, publications and decisions taken since Oct. 2001 around Resolution 1325. Please send submissions for Two Year On to: info@peacewomen.org.

Peace as a Theme for Ugandan Women at the World Summit for Sustainable Development

The National Association of Women Organisations in Uganda (NAWOU) was the Uganda focal point for the WSSD Women's Peace Train project. In addition to marking the WSSD, the Peace Train project marked 10 years of NAWOU's existence. A report on the Peace Train activities in Uganda is available online. Also available is a photo gallery including flag-off activities, peace placards and torch/train stops in Uganda. Following the report are links to interviews conducted by Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) of Litha Musyimi-Agana, Kenya, the chief organiser of the Women's Peace Train and Sadre Twinomugisha of NAWOU. http://www.wougnet.org/Documents/NAWOU/peacetrain.html.

Iraq's Little Secret (By Nicholas D. Kristof)

Published in the New York Times, 10/01/02.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The White House is right that Iraq is by far the most repressive country in the entire Middle East - but that's true only if you're a man.

To see how many Arab countries are in some ways even more repressive to women, consider how an invasion might play out. If American ground troops are allowed to storm across the desert from Saudi Arabia into Iraq, then American servicewomen will theoretically not be able to drive vehicles as long as they are in Saudi Arabia and will be advised to wear an abaya over their heads. As soon as they cross the border into enemy Iraq, they'll feel as if they are entering the free world: they can legally drive, uncover their heads, and even call men idiots.

Iraqi women routinely boss men and serve in non-combat positions in the army. Indeed, if Iraq attacks us with smallpox, we'll have a woman to thank: Dr. Rihab Rashida Taha, the head of Iraq's biological warfare program, who is also known to weapons inspectors as Dr. Germ.

A man can stop a woman on the street in Baghdad and ask for directions without causing a scandal. Men and women can pray at the mosque together, go to restaurants together, swim together, court together or quarrel together. Girls compete in after-school sports almost as often as boys, and Iraqi television broadcasts women's sports as well as men's.

"No one thinks that sports are just for men," said Nadia Yasser, the captain of the Iraqi national women's soccer team. "It's true that my mother was a bit concerned at first when I took up soccer, but I insisted, and so she accepted it and just started praying for me."

The point is not to be soft on Saddam Hussein, whose rash wars and policies have killed hundreds of thousands of women as well as men. Iraqi women would be much better off with Saddam gone, and in any case the relative equality of women in Iraq has little to do with his leadership. Iraq has been civilized more than twice as long as Britain, after all (it was old when Babylon arose), and Iraq got its first woman doctor back in 1922. Then the Iran-Iraq war boosted equality by sending men to the front lines and forced women to fill in as factory workers, bus drivers and government officials.

Still, we shouldn't demonize all of Iraq - just its demon of a ruler - and it's worth pondering this contrast between an enemy that empowers women and allies that repress them. This gap should shame us as well as these allies, reminding us to use our political capital to nudge Arab countries to respect the human rights not just of Kurds or Shiites, but also of women.

More broadly, in a region where women are treated as doormats, Iraq offers an example of how an Arab country can adhere to Islam and yet provide women with opportunities.

"I look at women in Saudi Arabia, and I feel sorry for them," said Thuha Farook, a young woman doctor in Basra. "They can't learn. They can't improve themselves."

At the Basra Maternity and Pediatric Teaching Hospital, 25 of the 26 students in ob-gyn are women. Across town, 54 percent of Basra University's students are female.

Iraqi women who work typically get six months' maternity leave at full pay and another six months at half pay. Subsidized day care is usually available at the workplace. Female circumcision, still common in American allies like Egypt and Nigeria, is absent in Iraq.

To be sure, aside from brutal political repression that is gender-blind, Iraqi women also endure groping on crowded buses and an occasional honor killing, in which a man kills a daughter or sister for being unchaste. Honor killings typically result in a six-month prison sentence in Iraq; they sometimes go completely unpunished in other countries.

A glance around any Baghdad street also demonstrates that Iraq doesn't have hang-ups about the female body that neighboring countries do. A man can travel widely in the Arab world and know about women's legs only by hearsay, but careful reporting in Iraq confirms that Arab women do have knees: In Baghdad I saw women volleyball players who felt uninhibited enough to roll up their sweats.

So as we invade Iraq for its barbaric and repressive ways, our allies in the Muslim world should feel deeply embarrassed that a rogue state offers women more equality than they do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/01/opinion/01KRIS.html?
ex=1034486444&ei=1&en=e397f036afc81e83

And Our Flag Was Still There (by Barbara Kingsolver)

Published in the San Francisco Chronicle, 09/25/01.

MY DAUGHTER came home from kindergarten and announced, "Tomorrow we all have to wear red, white and blue." "Why?" I asked, trying not to sound wary. "For all the people that died when the airplanes hit the buildings."

I fear the sound of saber-rattling, dread that not just my taxes but even my children are being dragged to the cause of death in the wake of death. I asked quietly, "Why not wear black, then? Why the colors of the flag, what does that mean?"

"It means we're a country. Just all people together."

So we sent her to school in red, white and blue, because it felt to her like something she could do to help people who are hurting. And because my wise husband put a hand on my arm and said, "You can't let hateful people steal the flag from us." He didn't mean terrorists, he meant Americans. Like the man in a city near us who went on a rampage crying "I'm an American" as he shot at foreign-born neighbors, killing a gentle Sikh man in a turban and terrifying every brown- skinned person I know. Or the talk-radio hosts, who are viciously bullying a handful of members of Congress for airing sensible skepticism at a time when the White House was announcing preposterous things in apparent self-interest, such as the "revelation" that terrorists had aimed to hunt down Air Force One with a hijacked commercial plane. Rep. Barbara Lee cast the House's only vote against handing over virtually unlimited war powers to one man that a whole lot of us didn't vote for. As a consequence, so many red-blooded Americans have now threatened to kill her, she has to have additional bodyguards.

Patriotism seems to be falling to whoever claims it loudest, and we're left struggling to find a definition in a clamor of reaction. This is what I'm hearing: Patriotism opposes the lone representative of democracy who was brave enough to vote her conscience instead of following an angry mob. (Several others have confessed they wanted to vote the same way, but chickened out.) Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth who've spent years learning our culture and contributing their talents to our economy. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder? Who are we calling terrorists here? Outsiders can destroy airplanes and buildings, but it is only we, the people, who have the power to demolish our own ideals.

It's a fact of our culture that the loudest mouths get the most airplay, and this in times of crisis it is treasonous to question our leaders. Nonsense. That kind of thinking let fascism grow out of the international depression of the 1930s. In critical times, our leaders need most to be influenced by the moderating force of dissent. That is the basis of democracy, in sickness and in health, and especially when national choices are difficult, and bear grave consequences. It occurs to me that my patriotic duty is to recapture my flag from the men now waving it in the name of jingoism and censorship. This isn't easy for me.

The last time I looked at a flag with unambiguous pride, I was 13. Right after that, Vietnam began teaching me lessons in ambiguity, and the lessons have kept coming. I've learned of things my government has done to the world that made me direly ashamed. I've been further alienated from my flag by people who waved it at me declaring I should love it or leave it. I search my soul and find I cannot love killing for any reason. When I look at the flag, I see it illuminated by the rocket's red glare.

This is why the warmongers so easily gain the upper hand in the patriot game: Our nation was established with a fight for independence, so our iconography grew out of war. Our national anthem celebrates it; our language of patriotism is inseparable from a battle cry. Our every military campaign is still launched with phrases about men dying for the freedoms we hold dear, even when this is impossible to square with reality. In the Persian Gulf War we rushed to the aid of Kuwait, a monarchy in which women enjoyed approximate the same rights as a 19th century American slave. The values we fought for and won there are best understood, I think, by oil companies. Meanwhile, a country of civilians was devastated, and remains destroyed.

Stating these realities does not violate the principles of liberty, equality, and freedom of speech; it exercises them, and by exercise we grow stronger. I would like to stand up for my flag and wave it over a few things I believe in, including but not limited to the protection of dissenting points of view. After 225 years, I vote to retire the rocket's red glare and the bullet wound as obsolete symbols of Old Glory. We desperately need a new iconography of patriotism. I propose we rip stripes of cloth from the uniforms of public servants who rescued the injured and panic-stricken, remaining at their post until it fell down on them. The red glare of candles held in vigils everywhere as peace-loving people pray for the bereaved, and plead for compassion and restraint. The blood donated to the Red Cross. The stars of film and theater and music who are using their influence to raise money for recovery. The small hands of schoolchildren collecting pennies, toothpaste, teddy bears, anything they think might help the kids who've lost their moms and dads.

My town, Tucson, Ariz., has become famous for a simple gesture in which some 8,000 people wearing red,white or blue T-shirts assembled themselves in the shape of a flag on a baseball field and had their photograph taken from above. That picture has begun to turn up everywhere, but we saw it first on our newspaper's front page. Our family stood in silence for a minute looking at that photo of a human flag, trying to know what to make of it. Then my teenage daughter, who has a quick mind for numbers and a sensitive heart did an interesting thing. She laid her hand over a quarter of the picture, leaving visible more or less 6,000 people, and said, "That many are dead." We stared at what that looked like -- all those innocent souls, multi-colored and packed into a conjoined destiny -- and shuddered at the one simple truth behind all the noise, which is that so many beloved people have suddenly gone from us. That is my flag, and that's what it means: We're all just people together.

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of nine books including "The Poisonwood Bible," (Harperflamingo, 1999).

CONFERENCES/MEETING

HIV/AIDS: A Humanitarian and Development Crisis, Addressing the Challenges for PVOs and NGOs in Africa.

October 16-17, Academy for Educational Development, Washington, DC. The PVO-USAID Steering Committee on Multisectoral Approaches to HIV/AIDS, a joint initiative of USAID's Bureau for Africa and approximately 20 PVOs, cordially invites you to a two-day conference, HIV/AIDS: A Humanitarian and Development Crisis, Addressing the Challenges for PVOs and NGOs in Africa. The size of the conference is limited to 150 participants, and to maximize the participation of as many PVOs as possible, organizations should send no more than two participants. Please register online at: http://sara.aed.org/pvo-aids.

2002 Women Waging Peace Americas Regional Meeting

November 1-9, Cambridge, MA. The fourth annual colloquium will be held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. For more information about the regional meetings or colloquium, please contact Meghan Camirand at: Meghan_Camirand@huntalternatives.org.

From Costs to Benefits: 6th Symposium on Gender Research

Nov 15-17, Germany. The conference will focus on the following topics: gender and the labor market; gender and the globalized economy; gender and leadership; and the social costs of gender. Of interest are questions like the following: How much does it cost when women earn just as much as men? How useful is the gender-specific distribution of tasks? How expensive is it not to make use of the leadership potential of women? For more information please go to: http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2002/1238-event.html.

WARI: Gender Course and Conference

March 9-16, 2003, Bangkok, Thailand. Women's Action and Resource initiative WARI is a Bangkok-based education and training organization that will be hosting a 6-day Gender Course "Women, Men, and Development". The course is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of gender. It aims to increase the conceptual understanding as well as practical skill to apply gender concepts and tools in different development sectors. It will cover the techniques of gender analysis, gender planning, and gender mainstreaming. The course is suitable for GOs, NGOs, students/academics, independent consultants and donor agencies. The course focuses on Southeast Asian experiences. The fee for the 6-day training course (not including room, board and travel) is USD 1,000. For details and for the application form, please visit our website (below).

The Gender and Southeast Asia Conference will take place just after the Gender Course on March 15-16, 2003. This year, the focus is on gender and trade related issues of agricultural production, natural resources management and economic integrity. Other possible panels are HIV-AIDS, violence against women, trafficking/prostitution as well as human resource development-related issues of health, education and training. The conference combines academics and activism. We invite researchers, NGO/GO practitioners and support agencies to submit abstracts and papers. The deadline for the abstract is November 30, 2002, for payment of fee December 30, 2002 and for submitting the completed paper, January 15, 2003. Conference registration fee is USD250. For more information, or to register for either the conference or the course, please visit the WARI Website at: http://www.geocities.com/wari9/course2003.htm, or email WARI at: wari9@yahoo.com.

TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, AND COURSES

Reassessing Gender Training Workshop: Women's Rights and Citizenship in Egypt

November 3-4, Cairo, Egypt. The Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the American University in Cairo will host the second workshop in its Reassessing Gender Training Series. This workshop centers on a discussion of legal and other rights as constructed by states, activists, and academics in Egypt. The workshop will attempt to provide a forum for the consideration and appreciation of varying visions and how they structure the present and future of women in society, as well as research on their roles as citizens. The workshop will also question the meaning of modernization, national identity and globalization as projected by on the ground efforts to realize different rights for different women. For more information regarding the workshop write to Dr. Hania Sholkamy: hanias@aucegypt.edu. Abstracts and papers should be submitted to the IGWS Secretariat: igws@aucegypt.edu.

International Training of Trainers Workshop

November 18-23, Bratislava, Slovakia. The Mediterranean Women's Studies Centre (KEGME) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are organizing a 5-day workshop with women participants from conflict and post conflict areas. One overall goal of the workshop is to empower women and to enable them to play a key role in community rebuilding and development. The Workshop will be conducted using a gender perspective and participatory methodology, including group work, short presentations, role play, case studies and exercises. For additional information, please contact Ketty Lazaris at: alazaris@hol.gr, or write to kegme@hol.gr or to stamiris@hol.gr. You may also visit the KEGME Website at: http://www.kegme.org.gr/newsviews.asp.

International Course: Gender and Peace Building

November 18-24, San Jose, Costa Rica. Application Deadline: October 8, 2002. This is an advanced one-week course organized by the Gender and Peace Studies Department at the University for Peace in collaboration with its international partners, including the University of Jyväiskylä in Finland. The course will be given at the main campus of the University for Peace in San José, Costa Rica. This course offers professionals working with government and intergovernmental institutions, as well as members of the non-profit sector and graduate students, the opportunity to establish dialogue with colleagues from around the world, to face new challenges in this field and to improve practical skills in a an atmosphere of engaging debate and case study analysis. The program is open to all those who work in programs related to gender issues as well as those who are interested in acquiring knowledge and expertise in this field. For more information, including application procedures, please visit the UPEACE Website at: http://www.upeace.org.

Training of Trainers in Gender and Development

December 7-18, Beirut, Lebanon, Application Deadline: October 20, 2002. The Training of Trainers in Gender and Development aims to enable gender-aware practitioners in key institutions to undertake the task of facilitating and leading the process of mainstreaming gender analysis for development, policy formulation and institution building. At various professional and activist forums in the Arab region, the need to cultivate teams of gender resource persons and develop capacity in their own institutions is continuously being emphasized. This has inspired KIT (Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands) and GLIP (Gender Linking and Information Project) to team up in order to run this gender workshop, developed to support both women and men, involved in the development and implementation of gender programs. Participants are expected to be from the Middle East/Maghreb region and have some knowledge and awareness of gender and development concepts and issues, have some working experience (or are concretely planning to work) in this area, and preferably in a position to integrate gained experiences in their organizations. The instruction language is Arabic and it is essential that participants are adequately fluent and literate in Arabic. Those who wish to participate are requested to complete the application form found on our website at http://www.macmag-glip.org.

Gender, Organizational Change, Agriculture and Leadership

February 10-28, 2003, Wageningen University, Netherlands. Application deadline: December 1, 2002. This course will be offered at the International Agricultural Center/Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Some fellowships from the Dutch Government are available. For more information, please visit the International Agriculture Centre's Website at: http://www.iac.wageningen-ur.nl, or email: training@iac.dlo.nl.

RESOURCES

BOOKS, REPORTS, & OTHER WRITTEN MATERIALS

Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and HIV/AIDS

Learn about how organizations and individuals from around the world have responded to the challenge of gender inequality as related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Access the latest tools that can help us take action on gender and HIV/AIDS. Read the arguments for approaches that empower and transform gender relations. The pack has three parts: 1) a report outlining key issues by Vicci Tallis of Project Empower, South Africa, with support from Alice Welbourn, pioneer of the Stepping Stones Approach; 2) a GAD In Brief bulletin - featuring articles by Promundo (Brazil) and the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (Thailand and Zimbabwe); and 3) a collection of supporting resources - summaries of key texts, case studies, tools and guides, and information about organizations, websites, and courses. It is downloadable free from the BRIDGE website at www.ids.ac.uk/bridge or you can order the pack through the IDS virtual bookshop at: www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/index.html.

The Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict Transformation

Sheila Meintjes, Anu Pillay and Meredeth Turshen (eds.) This title analyzes how transitions from war to peace and from authoritarian to democratic regimes can be used as opportunities for real social transformation. It presents an accounting of what women lose and gain in wartime and how they organize, as well as a study of why they fail to consolidate their gains. It reflects on how war changes identities, on the myths that men and women invent about each other in wartime, and on the problems of reconciliation and women's solidarity; and it focuses specifically on shifts in gender relations in the context of post-conflict reconstruction and transformation. The contributors also consider the relation of the state to society in the aftermath, searching for a vision of the transformed society. For ordering information go to: http://www.womenink.org or contact Women, Ink., 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA Tel: 212-687-8633 ext. 204, Fax: 212-661-2704, email: wink@womenink.org.

The Human Rights of Women: International Instruments and African Experiences

Wolfgang Benedek, Esther M. Kisaakye and Gerd Oberleitner (eds.) This book examines the international instruments that deal with the human rights of women and, the African experience in trying to implement them. The book begins with a general analysis of human rights and gender issues, standards of equality, the work of the United Nations, and other specialized agencies and then moves on to a discussion of the European human rights system in comparison with other regional instruments. The book then focuses on the legal and administrative systems in African countries through which standards are implemented nationally and monitored internationally. Specific topics such as female genital mutilation, human rights of women in armed conflict, refugee women as well as women and Islam are discussed. For ordering information go to: http://www.womenink.org or contact Women, Ink., 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA Tel: 212-687-8633 ext. 204, Fax: 212-661-2704, email: wink@womenink.org.

Picturing a Life Free of Violence: Media and Communications Strategies to End Violence Against Women

UNIFEM. This title showcases a wealth and variety of media and communications strategies and materials used around the world to end violence against women. A collaboration between UNIFEM and the Media Materials Clearinghouse of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the publication highlights materials and campaigns, providing descriptions of innovative communications methods for awareness raising. It is an attempt to facilitate information sharing between organizations working to end violence against women, so that strong and effective strategies can be replicated in other contexts. For ordering information go to: http://www.womenink.org or contact Women, Ink., 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA Tel: 212-687-8633 ext. 204, Fax: 212-661-2704, email: wink@womenink.org.

Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women

Mahnaz Afkhami, Ann Eisenberg and Haleh Vaziri. This manual acts as a learning tool and primer on a participatory, dialogue-based, and inclusive approach to leadership. It is based on the concept that women need to be empowered if they are to achieve their rights, participate in building civil society, and help attain sustainable and equitable development. Leading to Choices seeks to enable the reader to identify for herself and develop the best means to communicate, listen, build consensus, create shared meaning, and foster learning partnerships at work, at home, and in her community. Features a contextual chapter, twelve workshop sessions, and an appendix containing culture-specific scenarios relevant to the cultivation of effective leadership skills. For ordering information go to: http://www.womenink.org or contact Women, Ink., 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA Tel: 212-687-8633 ext. 204, Fax: 212-661-2704, email: wink@womenink.org.

Making a difference? Getting serious about gender and participatory development

A paper from the Institute of Development Studies examines the gender dimensions of participation through a series of case studies of projects, programs and policy research in Africa and Asia. It puts the use of participatory approaches such as Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) under the gender microscope. It argues that neither the 'add women and stir' approach nor treating women and men as generic categories can do much to address issues of gender and power. The paper emphasizes that what is needed instead are approaches that engage with the complexity and diversity of women's and men's experiences of poverty and powerlessness. The paper pays particular attention to PRA, the approach that has become widely associated with participation over the last decade. It suggests that as PRA is geared to consensus rather than challenge and is often used as a quick-fix by impatient agencies and that issues of gender and power can easily be submerged without a determined facilitator to keep them on the agenda. Further Information: Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of Brighton, Brighton Sussex BNl 9RE, UK, Tel: +44 (0)1273 606 621, Fax: +44 (0)1273 621202, Email: andreac@ids.ac.uk.

Gender and Economic Justice in EU Accession and Integration

The Network of East-West Women-Polska has developed a "gender-sensitive" analysis of the opinion polls run by Eurobarometer and by the OBOP (Public Opinion Research Center in Poland). This report presents results from the ten Candidate Countries of Central Europe and is focused on women. The primary aim of this report is to give an overview of how women from the Candidate Countries feel about various aspects of the European Union and how their opinions differ from men's point of view. To obtain a copy of the report, go to www.neww.org.pl.

ONLINE MATERIALS

Domestic Violence in India: Exploring Strategies, Promoting Dialogue

The International Center for Research (ICRW), in collaboration with Indian researchers, have published the fourth and fifth reports in a series summarizing research studies undertaken in India in domestic violence against women. The fourth report brings together fours studies exploring the links between masculinity and domestic violence as well as an aggregate analysis undertaken by ICRW on these linkages. The fifth report brings together three studies documenting and assessing the impact of three innovative women-initiated community level responses to domestic violence. The two summary reports are available on the ICRW website, www.icrw.org.

WHO Publication: Transforming Health Systems: Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health

Training resource designed to equip participants with the analytical tools to integrate a gender equity and reproductive rights perspective into their reproductive health programs. The publication is available on-line at: http://www.genie.ids.ac.uk/static/whohiv.htm.

National Women's Calendar

The National Women's Calendar is the largest electronic publication of women's events in North America. The mission is to provide a calendar of events covering every possible venue, topic or issue important to women. Women's groups, organizations, communities and businesses are invited to list their events. The National Women's Calendar is a superb networking tool for all women with connections to almost every known women's organization in America. www.nationalwomenscalendar.org.

UNFPA Fact Sheets on Women's Issues

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has prepared many fact sheets covering women's issues in topics such as armed conflict, contraceptive needs, economics, reproductive health, and education, among others. Facts sheets are also available in French and Spanish. Please visit: www.savingwomenslives.org/facts_index.htm.

Brave New Women of Asia: How Distance Education Changed Their Lives

New publication by the Commonwealth of Learning and edited by Asha Kanwar and Margaret Taplin. The aim of this collection of case studies is to inspire and encourage women to participate in open and distance learning. Text available online at: www.col.org/resources/publications/BraveNew.pdf. For more information, please email: info@col.org.

Gendering Demilitarization as a Peacebuilding Tool

Vanessa Farr, Bonn International Conversion Center (BICC). This report covers women and Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR). These activities are designed to facilitate disbanding military fighters and easing their transition back into society. They are often given priority at the cease of hostilities, as it is important to help former combatants settle into peacetime occupations. The DDR process is covered in paragraph 13 of Security Council Resolution 1325 that "Encourages all those involved in the planning for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration to consider the different needs of female and male ex-combatants and to take into account the needs of their dependents". The report can be found at: http://www.bicc.de/general/paper20/content.html.

Gender and Debt

Barbara Kalima, African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD). This paper contributes to the debate about gender and development (GAD), specifically looking at how the debt burden of most African countries has contributed to engendering gender disparities and ultimately led to stunted economic development. To read the paper, visit www.allafrica.com/stories/200208010514.html.

New WIDE Information Sheet

The new WIDE Information Sheet written by Marina Durano, research coordinator of the Asia Gender and Trade Network, focuses on the analysis of Foreign direct investment (FDI) and its impact on gender relations. Marina Durano explains, how the system of production has changed in recent decades and how this impacts the location and the investment choice of Transnational Corporations. In the same context she explains the roles women and women's activities play in this process. Taking Export Processing Zones as example she demythifies FDI as the remedy for economic growth of developing countries. Moreover, she explains how women's activities have been defined to suit the needs of this type of global production system and illustrates the different types of women's productive and reproductive activities related to this production process. The WIDE Info-sheet is available online at: http://www.eurosur.org/wide/Globalisation/IS_Durano.htm.

New Publication: National Policies on Women and Science in Europe

"National Policies on Women and Science in Europe" - The Helsinki Group on Women and Science produced (June 2002) this report, which maps the policies developed in 30 countries and including, for the first time, national statistical profiles. Text is available in several languages at: http://www.cordis.lu/improving/women/policies.htm, email: Gisele.Rodeyns@cec.eu.int.

Fast and Forward Series

Fast Forward is a five-part series produced by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that describes the remarkable rise of Kenya's women on the international running circuit and the remarkable way they are using their fame and fortune to improve the lives of their families and elevate the status of women in their society. One especially forward-looking runner, Lornah Kiplagat, has created a training camp for young women that not only trains girls to run but also teaches them about life. It has evolved into a quasi-development project much like the ones operated by international development agencies, and it hints at the possibility to leverage sports into economic improvements in many parts of the developing world -- if national sports federations, sports-related companies and international development organizations began to act in concert. The Fast Forward series is available at: http://www.post-gazette.com/world/20020505kenyaindexp1.asp.

WEBSITES

Gender Information Exchange (Genie) Website

This site provides links to and information about gender mainstreaming resources produced and/or funded by donor agencies. The aim of the website is to: 1) support the gender mainstreaming efforts of gender and non-gender specialists in donor agencies and other development co-operation organizations (and their partners) by providing gender information; and 2) facilitate the exchange of gender resources - research, tools, methodologies, experiences and good practice - between (and within) donor agencies to avoid duplication of effort. Genie provides a database of agency and ministry on-line gender resources; a gender country profiles database; contact details for world-wide gender consultants (and specialist organizations) including those based in the South; thematized guides to on-line resources; and various non-Anglophone materials. www.genie.ids.ac.uk.

New African Women Lawyers Association Website

The African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) translated into French as L'Association Des Femmes Africaines Avocates was founded in 1998. AWLA broadly seeks to promote networking among African Women lawyers and to enhance the status of African women and children. To achieve these objectives, the Association organizes specific activities aimed at providing open fora for discussing all matters affecting women and children in Africa, disseminating knowledge of laws on the Continent and strengthening the institutional capacity of member organizations. To find more information about A.W.L.A.'s activities please visit: www.awlaafrica.org.

New Women's Rights Website: Coalition on Violence Against Women - COVAW.

The Coalition on Violence Against Women - Kenya is a women's human rights organization that is committed to the eradication of all forms of violence against women and the promotion of women's human rights. COVAW was established in 1995 as a loose network to engage in a campaign aimed at moving the issue of violence against women from the private to the public domain. It institutionalized in 1997 and in 1998 undertook a strategic review and planning during which the three working groups were converted into programs namely Counseling and Training, Monitoring Documentation and Advocacy, Outreach and Impact Litigation and Publications which cuts across the other projects. COVAW(K) maintains that violence against women, whether in the private or public domain, is a human rights issue. COVAW also believes that women have the right to be free from violence; the right to self defense; and that people have the capacity to learn and change. Please visit the COVAW Website at: www.covaw.or.ke.

Women at Barcelona: XIV International AIDS Conference Website

This is an international coalition of scientists, researchers, activists, service providers and HIV+ women that coordinated a series of events to highlight gender issues and build women's visibility at the International AIDS Conference that took place in Barcelona in July. www.womenatbarcelona.net.

The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) Website

Formed by a group of HIV positive women in 1992, ICW is the only international network for, by and about HIV positive women. This electronic community is best know for drawing up the "Twelve Statements", which relate to the issues and needs facing all women living with HIV worldwide. www.icw.org.

New INSTRAW Website on Gender Aspects of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development

INSTRAW is pleased to announce the launching of a website and discussion forum on "Gender Aspects of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development". A discussion paper prepared by Irene Dankelman has been posted online and a bulletin board is now open for posting comments, concerns, views and queries. The site also contains a Special Collection of resources, a searchable database of relevant documents, which provides full references, abstracts and links to online documents. The site also provides links to relevant UN documents as well as of relevant UN and other websites. Visit the Website at: http://www.un-instraw.org/en/research/gaemsd/index.html.

New Website: International Telecommunications Union and Gender

This part of the International Telecommunications Union site is dedicated to the impact of gender on growth of Internet Communication Technologies (ICT) sector. Since in recent years, the ICT sector is becoming one of the fastest growing areas of the world economy, the ITU recognizes that society as a whole will benefit from equal participation of women and men in policy and decision-making and from equal access to the ICT sector. The site provides many interesting resources and links to gender perspectives on ICT, as well as event listings and official documents. Please visit the site at: http://www.itu.int/gender.

AWARDS

New Voices Fellowship Grants

Great opportunity for individuals with initiative and good ideas to work with small progressive groups in the US on a range of issues from gender and reproductive health to international economic rights (labor, trade, environment). The 2003 New Voices Fellowship Grant Application is now available online at http://newvoices.aed.org/processform.html. This year they are especially eager to identify excellent applicants in foreign policy, international economic policy, and peace and security, as these three fields have been underrepresented in the applicant pools to date.

Fellowships on Global Security and Cooperation

Deadline: December 2, 2002. The Global Security and Cooperation Program (GSC) of the Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce three fellowship opportunities to promote innovative approaches and new knowledge to better understand the causes of conflict, and to safeguard against threats to human security around the world. Fellowships are open to people working on issues related to conflict, human security and international cooperation and they are awarded in the three categories: 1) Dissertation Fellowships on Global Security and Cooperation; 2) Postdoctoral Fellowships on Global Security and Cooperation; and 3) Research Fellowships for Professionals Working in International Affairs. For more information and to apply please contact GSC at: Program on Global Security and Cooperation, Social Science Research Council, 2040 S St NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA; Tel: (202) 332-5572; Fax: (202) 332-9051; email: gsc@ssrc.org; Web: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/gsc.

Call for Papers: National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference

Deadline: October 15, 2002. 2003 National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference: "Borderlands and Beyond: Examining Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation" hosted by Arizona State University West invites abstracts/proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or media productions from all people in all disciplines and interdisciplinary fields in the arts, business, sciences, humanities, law, medicine, social sciences, and social services. 250 word abstracts/ proposals should relate to any aspect of the conference theme. Contact information: NAES National Office, College of Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University West, 4701 West Thunderbird Road--MC 3051, Glendale, AZ 85306, 602-333-0000 or submit abstracts/proposals electronically as an MS Word or RTF attachment to: naesi@asu.edu. Call for Papers Website: http://www.ethnicstudies.org.

Call for Submissions: Critical Matrix

Critical Matrix is a forum for research, criticism, theory and creative work in feminism and gender studies. Seeking connections among scholarly, aesthetic and activist approaches to gender, CM brings together written and visual materials that explore, redefine or reach across traditional disciplinary boundaries. CM was founded by feminist graduate students in the early 1980s to provide academic support for exploratory scholarship in Women's Studies and continues to encourage submission that might encounter resistance or neglect within established disciplines. CM solicits new work by authors at any stage in their careers, with or without academic affiliation. CM is currently seeking submissions from all disciplines for an issue devoted to questions of space and place. Please see this link for possible topics and guidelines: http://www.princeton.edu/~prowom/CM/call.html.

Grants for Research Collaboration in Conflict Zones

Deadline: February 1, 2003. The Global Security and Cooperation Program (GSC) of the Social Science Research Council invites applications from teams of two or more researchers residing or working in places with widespread or intractable violent conflict for short projects of 4-6 months in length. The research projects should develop new perspectives and approaches to understanding and ameliorating the root causes of conflict in those regions. Maximum award:$12,000. For more information and to apply please contact GSC at: Program on Global Security and Cooperation, Social Science Research Council, 2040 S St NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA; Tel: (202) 332-5572; Fax: (202) 332-9051; email: gsc@ssrc.org; Web: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/gsc.

Call for Applications: San Diego State University's Feminist-in-Residence Program

Application Deadline: October 15, 2002. San Diego State University Department of Women's Studies is pleased to announce a new Feminist-in-Residence Program. The aim of the program is to provide activists, artists and scholars committed to feminist social change a chance to network with colleagues on the campus and in the San Diego community, and to reflect upon and reorient their practices while contributing to the SDSU Women's Studies Department. S/he will receive a $5,000 stipend, housing, per diem, and a modest travel allowance. The successful applicant will visit San Diego State University for four weeks in spring 2003, either March 3 - March 28 or April 7 - May 2. . For more information, including application procedures, please visit: www.rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/wsweb.

Call for Papers: Women in a World of War and Militarization

October 30, 2002. The Editors of a special issue of Resources for Feminist Research, Shahrzad Mojab and Himani Bannerji seek articles dealing with feminist theories of democracy and citizenship, feminist activism and resistance, impact of current anti-terrorist legislation on women and feminism, and feminist responses to terrorism and violence, among others. For more information, please visit: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/rfr/, or email: rfrdrf@oise.utoronto.ca