Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace
2023 GLOBAL FORUM EVENT
An event hosted by CUNY Law's new institute for cross-sectoral, cross-movement, and transnational organizing, research, and scholarship
November 16-17th, 2023
The City university of New York school of Law
POSTPONED: The Institute looks forward to inviting you to its forthcoming spring programming
Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of CUNY Law’s Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace, will host a public panel event convening global thought leaders to explore transformative peace and justice in these times.
Cosponsored by the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at CUNY School of Law and MADRE.
Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee and Other Global Thought Leaders Explore Transformative Peace
Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, is a peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. Ms. Gbowee’s leadership of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace—which brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that played a pivotal role in ending Liberia’s civil war in 2003—is chronicled in her memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers, and in the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Ms. Gbowee is the Executive Director of the Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace at the City University of New York(CUNY) School of Law.
She is the founder of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, the founding head of the Liberia Reconciliation Initiative, and the co-founder and former Executive Director of Women Peace and Security Network Africa (WIPSEN-A). She previously served as Executive Director of the Women, Peace, and Security Program at Columbia University. She is also a founding member and former Liberian Coordinator of Women in Peacebuilding Network/West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WIPNET/WANEP).
A global thought leader and international facilitator for peace, Ms. Gbowee has been named one of the 100 Most Influential African Women by Avance Media, one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy, by Apolitical, and one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Fortune Magazine. In 2020, Ms. Gbowee was honored with the Martin & Coretta King Inaugural Peace & Justice Award. She advises numerous organizations working for peace, women’s rights, youth, and sustainable development, and currently serves as a Member on the United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Board on Mediation, as a Juror for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Hilton Humanitarian Prize, and as a Trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Ms. Gbowee holds an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, and has received a number of honorary degrees from universities around the world.
About Leymah Gbowee
CONVENING
Workshop with Grassroots Activists, Organizers, and Scholars
NOV 16-17 | CLOSED WORKSHOP | CUNY School of Law
The Institute was created as a joint effort with grassroots organizations from around the world. A select group of global scholars, organizers, and grassroots peace activists will gather for a closed two-day workshop at CUNY School of Law. The group of experts will discuss transformative peace, policymaking, and movement-building in these times. The perspectives raised and documentation gathered during the workshop will directly inform the Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace's future work.
The Institute’s Global Forum will convene scholars, organizers, and grassroots peace activists from around the world to discuss transformative peace, policymaking, and movement-building.
The convening takes place in times of heightened inequality, hate crimes, and global consciousness of gender- based violence, and in times of vibrant transnational mobilizations for gender and racial justice. The Institute believes this opportunity for transnational exchange can serve to generate knowledge, advocacy, and new forms of networks to support peace and justice projects both around the world and domestically.
The Global Forum will consist of a public panel event featuring global thought leaders, as well as a closed two-day workshop for scholars, grassroots activists, and organizers.
About the InStitute
The Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace aims to reimagine policymaking from the perspective of social movements, bringing those most impacted by crisis and conflict into the policy development process. The Institute serves as a hub for cross-sectoral, cross-movement, and transnational organizing, research, and scholarship. It works to advance the cutting edge of rights-based approaches to national and international law and policy, including peace and transitional justice processes, reconstruction, and human rights mechanisms. The Institute promotes the leadership of women and LGBTQI+ persons who face interlocking forms of discrimination, including those at the intersections of race, ethnicity, and disability, partnering with them to strengthen movement-building initiatives and change attitudes, policies, and practices that shape global crisis response.
Institute for Gender, Law, and
Transformative Peace
2023 GLOBAL FORUM EVENT
November 16-17, 2023 • The City University of New York School of Law