Talk by Dr. Daniela Lucia Rapisarda
Talk by
Dr. Daniela Lucia Rapisarda
Women’s participation in peace building
At Italian Institute of Culture
on Thursday, 6th March 2014 at 7.00pm.
Free entry
The changing nature of on-going armed conflicts from inter-state to intra-state has an unprecedented impact on civilians and women, it affects the extent to which women are victims of violence and gender based violence, but it also affects the extent to which women play an increasing role in conflict prevention, mitigation, management and peacebuilding. In most contexts of armed conflict, women actively engage in peace work, still their work remains greatly invisible and unrecognised. Why does women’s engagement in peace work receive so limited attention? Why are women excluded from official peace negotiations and what would be the implications of women’s full participation at all levels of peace work, from peacebuilding to peace making to post-conflict reconstruction? The issue of women’s participation in peacebuilding will be approached from two perspectives, one more ideological and one more praxis oriented, distinct and at the same time interconnected: the issue of the right of women to participate in peace work and the issue of the practical outcome of their engagement.
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Daniela Lucia Rapisarda is an Italian protestant theologian. She studied at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology in Rome and at New College in Edinburgh and graduated with a thesis on the Rhetoric of Power in the books of Luke and Acts. She has worked as Executive Secretary of the World Student Christian Federation – Europe Region, as coordinator of the Norwegian Ecumenical Peace Platform and for two years as Lecturer in Systematic Theology and New Testament at Bishop Gwynne College, Juba, South Sudan where she conducted field research on Women, Conflict and Peace. She is currently a PhD candidate at MF – Norwegian School of Theology and her area of research is Women’s participation in faith-based peacebuilding. Daniela is based in Nairobi with her husband and her four-year-old son.
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