“Feminism is about women’s dignity. It isn’t happiness but insight – for instance, the insight that human plurality is the basis of all politics and that justice and self-determination must become friends with the world.”

Honorary Bodies and  Honorary Support

Renowned women from politics, academia, economics, and the arts advise and support the FI thematically and strategically through two main bodies:

• The Working Group on Gender in Security Policy and Civil Conflict Prevention 
  
  advises and supports the FI in the area of [peace and security policy, and conflict prevention]. The Working Group discusses and analyzes European security and defense policy from a gender perspective. The group develops particular strategies for engendering defense and security policy. Outcomes of the group’s meetings become part of the FI’s activities and are put up for public debate. For example, the FI will organize workshops and expert talks to increase the expertise and networking capabilities of women in this area. The group is also preparing a position paper on international peace and security policy, and civil conflict prevention. The paper will summarize the outcomes of the group’s work thus far. It will also be presented at the conference “Femme Globale – Gender Perspectives in the 21st Century” in Berlin where it will be discussed by an international group of experts. For further information please see the German version [AG Gender & Sicherheit].
  
  
• The Workshop on the Future of Feminism
  
  seeks to bridge the gaps between feminist and gender theories, and different political practices. Since 2003, a small working group had been planning a large workshop on the future of feminism with the goal of re-politicizing feminist perspectives. This “Workshop on the Future of Feminism” took place in February of 2005. Over 40 men and women from academia, the arts, media, and the public sector debated the following questions: which strategies and interventions are necessary for the creation of a society based on gender equality? How can we break through gendered divisions of labor? Which strategies irritate hegemonic patterns and lead to the break-down of gender hierarchies? What potential for intervention do feminist traditions have to offer and into which networks can they be integrated? Further information in the German version [Zukunftswerkstatt]

Partners for Cooperation 

• Political Networks
  
  The FI is also significantly involved with the Women’s Security Council (WSC), a network of more than 20 non-governmental organizations, women’s and peace organizations, academic institutes, and foundations in Germany. The WSC supports, analyzes, and critically observes the federal government’s policies in the UN Security Council from a gender perspective. [Women’s Security Council]
  
  
• Academic Institutions
  
  The FI closely cooperates with a number of universities, both at home and abroad, for the realization of its e-learning concepts. These include MIT, Cambridge (USA), Zagreb University (Croatia), the Ruhr University of Bochum, the Universities of Bielefeld, Bremen, and Muenster, and the Free and Technical Universities in Berlin (Germany). [Virtual Campus]
  
  

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Aktualisiert: 10.08.2006, hbr