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WOMEN BUILDING PEACE BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

When: 12-2 PM, Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Where: Room 1200 (12th floor), 1 Nicholas St., Ottawa

Ms. Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal,
executive editor, Kashmir Times

Ms. Ammu Joseph,
journalist and founder of Network of Women in Media

Ms. Rubina Saigol,
writer/researcher and member of Women Action Forum

Ms. Ammu Joseph, Ms. Rubina Saigol and Ms. Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal
will be speaking about the role women are playing in their
communities, in the media and on the political level for a lasting
peace between India and Pakistan. The wars between India and
Pakistan, the issue of Kashmir, and each country' s nuclear
capabilities (made public in 1999) have stoked the conflict between
these two countries.

Women suffer the consequences of conflicts they did not start, and
then are excluded from peace negotiations and the peacebuilding
processes that serve to formally end conflict. The enduring conflict
between Pakistan and India is one such conflict. Human rights groups
and democratic organizations such as the Pak-India People's Forum for
Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) have stepped into the gap left by formal
diplomacy over the past 10 years to develop people-to-people
dialogues. Each year, hundreds of people meet in either India or
Pakistan to talk about peace and building democratic institutions.
Women have played a prominent role in such initiatives as "Talking
Peace".

In January 2004 the leaders of India and Pakistan met and discussed
all outstanding issues, signaling a major shift in diplomatic
relations and a significant breakthrough. The current moment is a
critical juncture for South Asia and one in which Canada could play a
significant role. Canada is a middle-power nation with significant
economic, political, historical and cultural ties to both countries
and a reputation for international peace-building and conflict
resolution. Canada can play an important role in supporting the peace
process between Pakistan and India, while ensuring that the rights of
the people of Kashmir are promoted and protected. A sustainable peace
agreement may require a shift in policy and programming priorities,
with, for example, needs and opportunities for relevant programming
interventions for women and girls in Kashmir.

Please RSVP to Peter Moore by email
pmo...@sapcanada.org
or by telephone 613-241-1333 ext. 227.

Speaker Biographies:

AMMU JOSEPH

Ms. Joseph is an independent journalist and media-watcher based in
Bangalore, India. She writes mainly on issues relating to gender,
human development, equity, peace and the media. She has written or co-
authored four books: Terror, Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out,
Storylines: Conversations with Women Writers, Women in Journalism:
Making News and Whose News? The Media and Women's Issues. In 2003,
she received the Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy by the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication based
in the United States. She participated in a United Nations Expert
Group Meeting on Women and the Media in Beirut in November 2002 and
represented the expert group on an official panel at the annual
meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York in
March 2003. She is a founder and member of the Network of Women in
Media, India, and co-editor of its website (www.nwmindia.org).

RUBINA SAIGOL

Ms Saigol is a freelance writer and researcher and contributes
occasionally to local dailies. She has participated in alternative
theatre used for consciousness raising and has been an active member
of Women Action Forum in Lahore. She holds a doctoral degree in
Educational Sociology from the University of Rochester, United
States, and a Master's of Arts degree in Developmental Psychology
from Columbia University, United States. Her books on education
include, Knowledge and Identity: Articulation of Gender in
Educational Discourse in Pakistan, Symbolic Violence: Curriculum,
Pedagogy and Society, Qaumiat, Taleem Aur Shanakht (Nationalism,
Education and Identity) in Urdu, and Education: Critical
Perspectives. She has published papers on religious intolerance in
education and the construction of 'enemies' in social studies
education. Her books on gender issues include, Locating the Self:
Perspectives on Women and Multiple Identity (co-edited), Aspects of
Women and Development (co-edited), Engendering the Nation-state
Volumes I and II (co-edited) and Aurat Aur Mazahmat (Woman and
Resistance) in Urdu. She has published papers on women and
education, gender and militarization, effects of conflict on Afghan
refugee women, and women and Mohajir ethnic conflict in Sindh. She
recently completed papers on the state and the limits of counter
terror in Pakistan and Sri Lanka and the effects of devolution on
minority women in Pakistan. She is currently completing a project on
the peasant women's struggle for land rights in Pakistan.

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal

Ms. Bhasin Jamwal is executive editor of Kashmir Times, the largest
and oldest English daily in Jammu and Kashmir. During her fifteen
years in the profession, Ms. Jamwal has worked and written
extensively on the Kashmir conflict, focusing on the need for intra-
state dialogue between India, Pakistan and the people of Jammu and
Kashmir. Her work has also focused on issues of displaced people in
Jammu and Kashmir, including border migration and land mines. She has
participated in several women, peace and media workshops and
conferences organised by South Asian Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR),
South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), Women in Security
Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP), Calcutta Research Group and
Kashmir Partners for Peace. Ms. Jamwal's research paper on the
media's role on displaced people of Jammu and Kashmir was recently
published by the Calcutta Research Group. She also writes fiction for
children and adults. National Book Trust has published some of her
short stories for children, and a collection of short stories for
adults will soon be published. She is currently working on a
collection of stories about lives disturbed by the unnatural
partition of 1947, more than 50 years ago.

Peter Moore
Communications Coordinator
South Asia Partnership Canada
Tel. 613-241-1333 ext. 228
Fax 613-241-1129

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