WIDE Annual
Conference 2006
2-3 June 2006,
Hosted by
KARAT Coalition
WIDE
– Network Women in Development Europe – has the pleasure to invite you to its
Annual Conference “What ‘state’
are we in? Women’s lives, changing States and expanding Markets” to
be held on 2-3 June 2006 in
The conference will be hosted by
the KARAT Coalition.
The
conference is a unique opportunity to initiate a discussion between women from
diverse backgrounds from the East, North and Global South on their experience
and expectations regarding states and markets with a goal of finding feminist alternatives for the future.
The
Conference will look critically at the failure of markets to provide economic
and social processes that share national wealth and ensure women and men’s
well-being. A wide ranging discussion will look at the implications of the bias of macroeconomic and
development policies over the last decades in their focus on expanding
market-based economic processes, as reflected, for example, in structural
adjustment programs in the global South, transition and economic reform in the
former state-socialist “East”, and welfare state reform/retrenchment efforts in
the North.
Together
participants will look at: What state are we in today?
What Markets are we in? What
should be changed? What is the best solution for women? What are feminists
concerned about today in our different regions? How can we learn together about
the intersections of our lives and issues? The conference panels, facilitated
debates, workshops and other side events will create a vibrant space where women living in the East, South, and North can debate share
and search together for viable alternatives. The conference will feature
international experts and within each panels/facilitated debates there will be
speakers from East, South and North looking at the issues from specific regional
perspective.
The
event will start with a pre conference Capacity Building Day on June 1st, that
will introduce the main concepts and paradigms for example: states, “shrinking”
states, markets discussed during the two-day international conference on 2-3 of
June.
For
further information on the conference, including latest agenda of the conference
and pre conference capacity building day, list of speakers, information on
accommodation and registration form, please go to: http://www.karat.org/wide_conference.html or http://www.wide-network.org
Please
join us! Just fill out the
registration form available at: http://www.karat.org/wide_conference/registration.html and return as
advised. The deadline for registration
is
11, 2006
.
We
look forward to seeing you in
Wendy
Harcourt
Kinga Lohmann
Chair,
WIDE
Executive Director, KARAT Coalition
Karat Coalition
ul. Karmelicka
16 m. 13
00-163 Warsaw, Poland
cellular +48 502 065 237
Tel/Fax (48 22)
636 83 07
office@karat.org.pl
http://www.karat.org/
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