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   | Experts

• Asha Hagi Elmi, 6th Clan, Somalia 
• Richa Singh, Palestine/India
• Zameret Hershko, Isha La Isha, Israel
• Elaine Zuckerman, Gender Action, USA
• Renée Ernst, Women’s Security Council, Germany

Facilitator: Ulrike Allroggen, Feminist Insitute of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Germany

Using examples from Northern and Southern countries, this workshop will analyze successful strategies and their applicability in different contexts for implementing a gender perspective and increasing women’s participation in the maintenance and promotion of security. Representatives from both the South and North are asked to present their strategies for implementing a gender perspective and/or for increasing women’s participation. These strategies will be analyzed on the basis of their respective social environments, their potential and their limits. Important questions include:

• What aspects of these strategies are country-specific and/or can experience be drawn from?
  
• What legal guidelines have these strategies employed? 
  
• What is the effectiveness of instruments such as “gender mainstreaming” and “empowerment,” and political movement approaches such as “top-down” and “bottom-up” – the latter being especially relevant to large-scale civil society interventions made by women?
  
• What common strategies should and could women from the South and North develop?

   | Contact

Gitti Hentschel, Feministisches Institut, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Berlin, Deutschland 
E-Mail feministisches-institut@boell.de, Homepage http://www.glow-boell.de/

Aktualisiert: 23.08.2005, hbr