Join us for our Indigenous Women Convening for Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation. The Indigenous Women Convening on Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation brings together Indigenous scholars and women leaders from seven indigenous socio-cultural zones of the world to share stories of war and conflicts in their territories and find collective ways of ideating indigenous conflict resolution and peace-making processes.
Speakers and Presenters
Elsa Stamatopoulou: Former Chief of UN Permanent Forum of Indigenous Peoples, Director, Indigenous Studies Program at Columbia University
Louise Herne: Wakerakatste is the Bear Clan Mother for the Mohawk Nation Council, founding member of Konon:kwe Council, a circle of Mohawk women
Tarcila Rivera Zea: Founder of the organization Chirapaq : Center for Indigenous Peoples Cultures, Peru
Rauna Kuokkanen: Sami, Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland, Finland
Lucy Mulenkei: Executive Director, Indigenous Information Network (IIN), Kenya
Claire Charters: Ngāti Whakaue, Tūwharetoa, Ngā Puhi, Tainui, Associate Professor, University of Auckland Faculty of Law, New Zealand.
Tukumminnguaq Olsen: Inuit Circumpolar Council & Member of Board of Trustees at United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples’
Vera Solovyeva: Sakha Ph.D. Candidate at George Mason, Department of Environmental Science and Public Policy
Binalakshmi Nepram: Manipur Nation, Fellow, HKS Carr Centre for Human Rights & Co-Founder, Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace.
Mariam Aboubakrine: Présidente, Association Tinhinan Canada et membre Tinhinane Sahel
Organizer
Additional Organizers
Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Scholars at Risk Program, Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender, Justice, and Peace. Center for the Study of World Religions; Conflict and Peace Initiative; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Harvard College Writing Program; HUNAP; Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative; Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Source: www.hks.harvard.edu