(Non) Violent Stories of Gender Rights
Mar 30, 2021
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RGU School of Applied Social Studies
Online
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Join Lina AbiRafeh (Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University), Natascha Mueller-Hirth (Robert Gordon University), Meghan Laws (University of St Andrews/Third Generation Project) and Suhad Babaa (Just Vision) for a discussion about gender-based violence, resistance and rights.
After short presentations, there will be time for a panel discussion and audience questions.
Lina AbiRafeh is a global women’s rights expert with decades of experience worldwide. For the last six years, she has served as the Executive Director of the Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University, an academic/activist institute covering the 22 Arab states. The Institute was established in 1973 as the first women’s institute in the Arab region – and one of the first globally.
Lina spent over 20 years in development and humanitarian contexts in countries such as Afghanistan, Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, and others. Her specific expertise is in gender-based violence prevention and response, summarized by her TEDx talk, Women Deliver PowerTalk, keynote address for Swedish International Development Agency annual meeting, amongst others. Lina is among the Gender Equality Top 100 worldwide in 2018 and 2019.
Dr Natascha Mueller-Hirth is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, Scotland. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research utilises qualitative methodologies to examine issues around peace and conflict, violence, gender and development, primarily focusing on South Africa and Kenya. A particular interest is temporality and the politics of time in relation to conflict, peacebuilding and transitional justice. She is co-editor of Time and Temporality in Transitional and Post-Conflict Societies (2018) and co-author of The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding (2018).
Dr Meghan Laws is a Visiting Scholar in the School of International Relations (IR) at the University of St Andrews, and the Deputy Director of the Third Generation Project, an international think tank based in the School of IR focused on climate justice research and education. Her recent work seeks to chronicle narratives of dislocation, land dispossession and regime change among the first ‘conservation refugees’ in Africa’s Great Lakes region in partnership with local community-based organizations. Relatedly, she is involved in a collaborative advocacy project that analyzes the intersections of the climate crisis and gender-based violence in Indigenous communities around the world.
Suhad Babaa is a media strategist, producer, human rights advocate and the Executive Director of Just Vision, an organization that researches, documents and disseminates the stories of Palestinians and Israelis working to end the occupation and build a future of freedom, dignity and equality for all. Suhad leads Just Vision’s journalistic efforts as the Co-Director of the award-winning Hebrew-language news site, Local Call, and executive produced their acclaimed feature-length documentary, Naila and the Uprising (2017).
This event is a Community Seminar Series event hosted by Robert Gordon University's School of Applied Social Studies and is co-sponsored by the Rector's Office at the University of St Andrews. Our seminars are free to attend, open to all, and held online.
Who: RGU School of Applied Social Studies
Where: Online
When: 30 March 2021 Time: 01:00 PM EST