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DESCRIPTION:Presented by Inter Gentes in collaboration with the CHRLP. On Z
 oom. The role of legal pluralism in advancing gender equality through (int
 ernational) human rights instruments. With Meghan Campbell\, Geoffrey Swen
 son\, Palwasha L. Kakar. Hosts: Poonam Sandhu and Kassandra Neranjan. More
  information\n	\n	Inter Gentes is a journal that has two guiding objectives:
  rethinking international law through the lens of legal pluralism and crea
 ting a global\, twenty-first century academic journal. The journal centers
  around engaging forums to discuss and debate articles between numerous le
 gal professionals\, scholars\, students\, and the general public. Hosting 
 a conversation on International Women’s Day provides Inter Gentes the uniq
 ue forum to marry conversations of legal pluralism with that of gender equ
 ity. More specifically\, human rights instruments and endeavours to produc
 e positivist international law have been lauded and undertaken with a magn
 animous conviction that such efforts are essential to advancing gender jus
 tice\; but does this hold\, in truth? We aim to engage activists\, scholar
 s\, and practitioners in a dialogue regarding legal pluralism in a dynamic
  setting of international law to explore: what are the multiple ways in wh
 ich gender justice can and should be advocated for globally? What can we l
 earn for future initiatives?\n\nAbout the speakers\n\nDr. Meghan Campbell:
  Dr. Campbell is Reader in International Human Rights Law at the Universit
 y of Birmingham. Her research explores how the international human rights 
 system can best respond to gender inequality and poverty. Her monograph Wo
 men\, Poverty\, Equality (Hart Publishing\, 2018) explores how the concept
  of equality in the UN Convention on the Discrimination on the Elimination
  of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women can be interpreted to addres
 s gender-based poverty. She has published peer-reviewed articles on gender
  equality\, human rights\, international legal system and public law and p
 rovided written evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and Women 
 and Equalities Committee on Brexit and human rights.\n\nDr. Geoffrey Swens
 on: Dr. Geoffrey Swenson is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Int
 ernational Relations in the Department of International Politics at City\,
  University of London. He is also a Term Member of the Council on Foreign 
 Relations and an External Affiliate with the Ostrom Workshop at the Univer
 sity of Indiana\, Bloomington. Geoffrey's current research focuses on issu
 es related to post-conflict reconstruction\, democracy and the rule of law
 \, legal pluralism\, international institutions\, international relations 
 theory\, and foreign aid. Geoffrey has held fellowships at the London Scho
 ol of Economics\, Stanford University\, and the Carnegie Endowment for Int
 ernational Peace. Previously\, he was an in-country program manager for th
 e Asia Foundation in Timor-Leste and Nepal\, the founder and in-country di
 rector of Stanford Law School's Timor-Leste Legal Education Project\, and 
 a global political party development specialist with the National Democrat
 ic Institute. Geoffrey completed a DPhil in International Relations at Oxf
 ord as a Clarendon Scholar and won the Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Wincheste
 r Prize for most outstanding thesis. He holds an MA in Comparative Ethnic 
 Conflict from Queen's University Belfast as a Mitchell Scholar\, and a JD 
 from Stanford Law School. Geoffrey's research has been published in leadin
 g journals including International Security\, World Development\, Internat
 ional Studies Review\, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.\n\nPalwas
 ha L. Kakar: Palwasha L. Kakar is the interim director for religion and in
 clusive societies at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). Kakar joined USIP
  after four years with The Asia Foundation where she was the Afghanistan d
 irector for Women’s Empowerment and Development. Prior to joining the Foun
 dation\, Kakar led the Gender Mainstreaming and Civil Society Unit in the 
 United Nation Development Program's Afghanistan Subnational Governance Pro
 gram managing a small grants program for Afghanistan's civil society initi
 atives. Kakar also served as program manager for The Gender Studies Instit
 ute at Kabul University. She has experience working with the World Bank Gr
 oup on gender\, social justice and environmental issues surrounding their 
 various projects in the region. Kakar moved to Afghanistan 2004 to work wi
 th the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)\, an independent re
 search organization\, on women's participation at the local levels in the 
 National Solidarity Programme (NSP). Before moving to Afghanistan\, she wa
 s the director of the Newton Peace Center (currently Peace Connections) a 
 faith-based civil society organization.\n\nAn Afghan-American\, she has ex
 perience teaching and researching religion\, gender\, security and local g
 overnance. Kakar has published research regarding women’s participation in
  local governance\, Pashtunwali-Afghan customary law\, Afghan women's iden
 tity\, and social spaces in Afghanistan. Her research has taken her to Afg
 hanistan\, Pakistan\, Bangladesh\, Egypt\, Israel\, Palestine\, Jordan and
  Syria. She earned a master's focusing on gender\, politics and religion f
 rom Harvard University’s Divinity School and a bachelor's in religion and 
 global studies focusing on peace and conflict from Bethel College in North
  Newton\, KS.\n
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SUMMARY:The role of legal pluralism in advancing gender equality through (i
 nternational) human rights instruments.
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 ing-gender-equality-through-international-human-rights-instruments-337802
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