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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.  
 More information\n	\n	Inter Gentes is a journal that has two guiding objecti
 ves: rethinking international law through the lens of legal pluralism and 
 creating a global\, twenty-first century academic journal. The journal cen
 ters around engaging forums to discuss and debate articles between numerou
 s legal professionals\, scholars\, students\, and the general public. Host
 ing a conversation on International Women’s Day provides Inter Gentes the 
 unique forum to marry conversations of legal pluralism with that of gender
  equity. More specifically\, human rights instruments and endeavours to pr
 oduce positivist international law have been lauded and undertaken with a 
 magnanimous conviction that such efforts are essential to advancing gender
  justice\; but does this hold\, in truth? We aim to engage activists\, sch
 olars\, and practitioners in a dialogue regarding legal pluralism in a dyn
 amic setting of international law to explore: what are the multiple ways i
 n which gender justice can and should be advocated for globally? What can 
 we learn for future initiatives?\n\nAbout the speakers\n\nDr. Meghan Campb
 ell: Dr. Campbell is Reader in International Human Rights Law at the Unive
 rsity of Birmingham. Her research explores how the international human rig
 hts system can best respond to gender inequality and poverty. Her monograp
 h Women\, Poverty\, Equality (Hart Publishing\, 2018) explores how the con
 cept of equality in the UN Convention on the Discrimination on the Elimina
 tion of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women can be interpreted to ad
 dress gender-based poverty. She has published peer-reviewed articles on ge
 nder equality\, human rights\, international legal system and public law a
 nd provided written evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and Wo
 men and Equalities Committee on Brexit and human rights. \n\nDr. Geoffrey 
 Swenson: Dr. Geoffrey Swenson is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) i
 n International Relations in the Department of International Politics at C
 ity\, University of London. He is also a Term Member of the Council on For
 eign Relations and an External Affiliate with the Ostrom Workshop at the U
 niversity of Indiana\, Bloomington.  Geoffrey's current research focuses o
 n issues related to post-conflict reconstruction\, democracy and the rule 
 of law\, legal pluralism\, international institutions\, international rela
 tions theory\, and foreign aid. Geoffrey has held fellowships at the Londo
 n School of Economics\, Stanford University\, and the Carnegie Endowment f
 or International Peace. Previously\, he was an in-country program manager 
 for the Asia Foundation in Timor-Leste and Nepal\, the founder and in-coun
 try director of Stanford Law School's Timor-Leste Legal Education Project\
 , and a global political party development specialist with the National De
 mocratic Institute. Geoffrey completed a DPhil in International Relations 
 at Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar and won the Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Win
 chester Prize for most outstanding thesis. He holds an MA in Comparative E
 thnic Conflict from Queen's University Belfast as a Mitchell Scholar\, and
  a JD from Stanford Law School.  Geoffrey's research has been published in
  leading journals including International Security\, World Development\, I
 nternational Studies Review\, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.\n
 \nPalwasha L. Kakar: Palwasha L. Kakar is the interim director for religio
 n and inclusive societies at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). Kakar joi
 ned USIP after four years with The Asia Foundation where she was the Afgha
 nistan director for Women’s Empowerment and Development. Prior to joining 
 the Foundation\, Kakar led the Gender Mainstreaming and Civil Society Unit
  in the United Nation Development Program's Afghanistan Subnational Govern
 ance Program managing a small grants program for Afghanistan's civil socie
 ty initiatives. Kakar also served as program manager for The Gender Studie
 s Institute at Kabul University. She has experience working with the World
  Bank Group on gender\, social justice and environmental issues surroundin
 g their various projects in the region. Kakar moved to Afghanistan 2004 to
  work with the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)\, an indepe
 ndent research organization\, on women's participation at the local levels
  in the National Solidarity Programme (NSP). Before moving to Afghanistan\
 , she was the director of the Newton Peace Center (currently Peace Connect
 ions) a faith-based civil society organization.\n\nAn Afghan-American\, sh
 e has experience teaching and researching religion\, gender\, security and
  local governance. Kakar has published research regarding women’s particip
 ation in local governance\, Pashtunwali-Afghan customary law\, Afghan wome
 n's identity\, and social spaces in Afghanistan. Her research has taken he
 r to Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, Bangladesh\, Egypt\, Israel\, Palestine\, Jo
 rdan and Syria. She earned a master's focusing on gender\, politics and re
 ligion from Harvard University’s Divinity School and a bachelor's in relig
 ion and global studies focusing on peace and conflict from Bethel College 
 in North Newton\, KS.\n
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LOCATION:Zoom
SUMMARY:Gender Justice and Lived Legal Pluralism: Advancing Equity through 
 Human Rights Instruments.
URL:/law/channels/event/gender-justice-and-lived-legal
 -pluralism-advancing-equity-through-human-rights-instruments-337802
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