BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251009T005554EDT-1705Pbz4rb@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251009T045554Z DESCRIPTION:Presented by Inter Gentes in collaboration with the CHRLP.  On Zoom. The role of legal pluralism in advancing gender equality through (in ternational) human rights instruments.  With Meghan Campbell\, Geoffrey Sw enson\, Palwasha L. Kakar.  Hosts: Poonam Sandhu and Kassandra Neranjan.   \n \n Inter Gentes is a journal that has two guiding objectives: rethinking international law through the lens of legal pluralism and creating a globa l\, twenty-first century academic journal. The journal centers around enga ging forums to discuss and debate articles between numerous legal professi onals\, scholars\, students\, and the general public. Hosting a conversati on on International Women’s Day provides Inter Gentes the unique forum to marry conversations of legal pluralism with that of gender equity. More sp ecifically\, human rights instruments and endeavours to produce positivist international law have been lauded and undertaken with a magnanimous conv iction that such efforts are essential to advancing gender justice\; but d oes this hold\, in truth? We aim to engage activists\, scholars\, and prac titioners in a dialogue regarding legal pluralism in a dynamic setting of international law to explore: what are the multiple ways in which gender j ustice can and should be advocated for globally? What can we learn for fut ure initiatives?\n\nAbout the speakers\n\nDr. Meghan Campbell: Dr. Campbel l is Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University of Birming ham. Her research explores how the international human rights system can b est respond to gender inequality and poverty. Her monograph Women\, Povert y\, Equality (Hart Publishing\, 2018) explores how the concept of equality in the UN Convention on the Discrimination on the Elimination of All Form s of Discrimination Against Women can be interpreted to address gender-bas ed poverty. She has published peer-reviewed articles on gender equality\, human rights\, international legal system and public law and provided writ ten evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and Women and Equaliti es Committee on Brexit and human rights. \n\nDr. Geoffrey Swenson: Dr. Geo ffrey Swenson is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations in the Department of International Politics at City\, University of London. He is also a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations a nd an External Affiliate with the Ostrom Workshop at the University of Ind iana\, Bloomington.  Geoffrey's current research focuses on issues related to post-conflict reconstruction\, democracy and the rule of law\, legal p luralism\, international institutions\, international relations theory\, a nd foreign aid. Geoffrey has held fellowships at the London School of Econ omics\, Stanford University\, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously\, he was an in-country program manager for the Asia Fou ndation in Timor-Leste and Nepal\, the founder and in-country director of Stanford Law School's Timor-Leste Legal Education Project\, and a global p olitical party development specialist with the National Democratic Institu te. Geoffrey completed a DPhil in International Relations at Oxford as a C larendon Scholar and won the Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Prize fo r most outstanding thesis. He holds an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict f rom Queen's University Belfast as a Mitchell Scholar\, and a JD from Stanf ord Law School.  Geoffrey's research has been published in leading journal s including International Security\, World Development\, International Stu dies Review\, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.\n\nPalwasha L. Kak ar: Palwasha L. Kakar is the interim director for religion and inclusive s ocieties at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). Kakar joined USIP after fo ur years with The Asia Foundation where she was the Afghanistan director f or Women’s Empowerment and Development. Prior to joining the Foundation\, Kakar led the Gender Mainstreaming and Civil Society Unit in the United Na tion Development Program's Afghanistan Subnational Governance Program mana ging a small grants program for Afghanistan's civil society initiatives. K akar also served as program manager for The Gender Studies Institute at Ka bul University. She has experience working with the World Bank Group on ge nder\, social justice and environmental issues surrounding their various p rojects in the region. Kakar moved to Afghanistan 2004 to work with the Af ghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)\, an independent research or ganization\, on women's participation at the local levels in the National Solidarity Programme (NSP). Before moving to Afghanistan\, she was the dir ector of the Newton Peace Center (currently Peace Connections) a faith-bas ed civil society organization.\n\nAn Afghan-American\, she has experience teaching and researching religion\, gender\, security and local governance . Kakar has published research regarding women’s participation in local go vernance\, Pashtunwali-Afghan customary law\, Afghan women's identity\, an d social spaces in Afghanistan. Her research has taken her to Afghanistan\ , Pakistan\, Bangladesh\, Egypt\, Israel\, Palestine\, Jordan and Syria. S he earned a master's focusing on gender\, politics and religion from Harva rd University’s Divinity School and a bachelor's in religion and global st udies focusing on peace and conflict from Bethel College in North Newton\, KS.\n DTSTART:20220308T180000Z DTEND:20220308T193000Z SUMMARY:Gender Justice and Lived Legal Pluralism: Advancing Equity through Human Rights Instruments. URL:/humanrights/channels/event/gender-justice-and-liv ed-legal-pluralism-advancing-equity-through-human-rights-instruments-33811 4 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR