Date: Tuesday 6 December 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Bele Grau, Diana Koester, Rachel Sider
Discussant: Hannah Bond
Chair: Caroline Sweetman

Two billion people live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. This panel, convened for the launch of Gender and Development journal’s new issue, is dedicated to the challenges of working on gender in fragile contexts. It aims to contribute to knowledge around the need to address gender inequality (in policy and practice in fragile contexts), based on women's and girls' realities (in fragile conflict-affected locations) - and share experience and analysis about what this means in practice.

Bele Grau is a PhD candidate at the Goethe University Frankfurt, conducting an ethnographic research project on women’s movements in Afghanistan.

Diana Koester advises the OECD-DAC International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF) on gender, peacebuilding and statebuilding and conducts DPhil (Politics) research on these issues at the University of Oxford.

Rachel Sider is an independent consultant based in Jerusalem and until earlier this year was Oxfam's Iraq policy lead based in Erbil. She managed policy and advocacy initiatives and advises on country strategy, focusing on governance, emerging humanitarian needs, social cohesion and conflict-sensitive programming.

Hannah Bond is Director of GAPS, the UK Gender Action on Peace and Security Network.

Caroline Sweetman is Editor of Gender and Development.

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