November 7, 2005 (Vol. 2, No. 5)

Symposium Proceedings on World Peace/Gender Equity Now Available

A special edition of the Women's Studies Review is now available on the Women's Studies Website, as well as in print. The Review features proceedings from the 2004 symposium on "The Role of Women in World Peace and The Role of Men and Boys in Gender Equity," which was jointly sponsored by Lehman College and the International Health Awareness Network (IHAN).

"The material presented at the conference was relevant to the understanding of how, together, men and women can stop conflict, maximize opportunities and bring about peace in a democratic society," says Professor Elhum Haghighat (Sociology and Social Work), who co-edited the Review with Professor Sharon Freedberg, director of the Lehman Women's Studies Program, and Professor Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol-Banoum (Black Studies).

Included in the proceedings are remarks by Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, who delivered the keynote address at the symposium, and those of other speakers: Ambassador Anwarul Karim Chowdhury; Dr. Patricia Fernández-Kelly of Princeton University; Professor Michael S. Kimmel of the State University of New York at Stony Brook; Dr. Vijaya Melnick, the First Vice President of IHAN and Director of the Office of Sponsored Research and Programs at the University of the District of Columbia; the Honorable Olara Otunnu, who was then United Nations Undersecretary General and Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict; and Dr. Sorosh Roshan, founder and president of IHAN.

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