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On November 16-17, 2023, the Institute on Law, Gender, and Transformative Peace hosted its first Global Forum event.
The Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace Initiative’s 2023 Global Forum participants Photo Credit: Milik Robinson
The Institute welcomed scholars, organizers, and grassroots peace activists from around the world to CUNY School of Law to discuss transformative peace, cross movement-building strategies, and documentation practices.
Guerline Jozef speaks during the Institute’s Global Forum. Guerline is Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies, with a particular focus on Black immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa, the Haitian community, women and girls, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture and other human rights abuses. Photo Credit: Shelby Logan-Reese
The convening was focused on closed workshops with representative movement leaders, scholars, and experts from nine countries. The focuses of their gender justice work ranged from gender-based violence, racial justice, human rights, environmental justice, LGBTQI+ rights, reproductive justice, abolition work, healing justice, immigration, and women, peace, and security. The perspectives raised and feedback given during the workshop will directly inform the Institute’s work and priorities moving forward.
Institute Executive Director Leymah Gbowee in conversation with some Global Forum attendees at CUNY School of Law. Photo Credit: Milik Robinson
Upcoming Institute Events
Coffee with Dean Setty & the Institute
March 6, 2024 | 12pm – 1pm | 2nd Flr Lobby
CUNY School of Law Dean Sudha Setty is hosting a Dean’s Coffee with the Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace and Institute Executive Director Leymah Gbowee to speak more about the Institute’s work and programming.
Resisting the Policing of Women’s Bodies: Affirming Individual and Collective Rights in 21st Century America
March 8, 2024 | 10am – 4:45pm | CUNY Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College
The Institute on Gender, Law and Transformative Peace is co-hosting a daylong conference with the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute to celebrate International Women’s Day. The Brooklyn College event will include keynote remarks by Institute Executive Director Leymah Gbowee and Prof. Michelle Goodwin, the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law.
Visit Brooklyn College’s event page for more information.