Why Peace Professionalism Matters in Uncertain Conflict and Development Contexts

Philip Onguny¹, Nathan Funk², Evelyn Voigt³, Gordon Breedyk³, Peace Mukazi¹, Victoria Gachuche¹, Fatim Maiga², William Jackson-Monrore¹, Noman Sajjad², Neil Arya⁵, Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik⁴, Randall Puljek-Shank⁷, Allyson Bachta⁴, Jobb Arnold⁹, Jacinta Mwende⁶, Anna Snyder⁹, Lauren Levesque¹, Richard Moore¹⁰, Luis Diaz¹¹, Louis Santander⁸

1: Saint Paul University, Canada; 2: Conrad Grebel University College (University of Waterloo), Canada; 3: Civilian Peace Service Canada; 4: Alliance for Peacebuilding, USA; 5: PEGASUS Institute, Canada; 6: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 7: Peace Academy Foundation, Bosnia-Herzegovina; 8: BSocial, Colombia; 9: Canadian Mennonite University, Canada; 10: MDR Associates Conflict Resolution Inc.; 11: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC), Colombia

The conflation of abortion, LGBTI+ rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Zambia

Nomthandazo Malambo, Stephen Brown

University of Ottawa, Canada

Women's Activism in Bangladesh: Affective Communities and Spaces of Social Reproduction

Nausheen Quayyum

York University, Canada

In Search of Transformative Horizons: A Feminist Institutionalist Analysis of Canada and Transitional Justice in Colombia

Safo Musta

University of Ottawa, Canada

Transformative organizational and programmatic change? Civil society responses to the Canadian Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP)

Sheila Rao¹, Ann Delorme²

1: Concordia University; 2: Humanity and Inclusion

Chair(s): John Cameron (Dalhousie University)

Presentations of the Symposium

A Review of IDS Syllabi and Strategies to Integrate a Decolonial Lens

Alexandra Wilson
University of Ottawa

Reflections on a New Course on Decolonizing Development

Andrea Paras
Guelph University

Reflections on a New Course on Racism and Development

Ajay Parasram
Dalhousie University

Reflections on Teaching Gender and Intersectionality in International Development

Laura Parisi
University of Victoria

Chair(s): Rebecca Tiessen (University of ottawa, Canada)

Presentations of the Symposium

Reflections on the RN WPS Symposium: Taking Action to Address Gender Equality, Peace and Security

Lena Dedyuka
uOttawa

Overview of Research Priorities from the RN WPS Symposium Findings

Phuong Tran
uOttawa

Ending Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) in Crisis- and Conflict-affected Contexts: Effective Strategies and Persistent Barriers

Rebecca Tiessen
uOttawa

Conditional Cash Transfers and their Impacts on Women in Nigeria

Nnenna Okoli
uOttawa

taking care of the land for food security: The Indigenous Planning of Quechua People in Peru

Silvia Leonor Sarapura Escobar

University of Guelph, Canada

Social reproduction and agricultural productivity: the case of Malawi

A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi

Trent University, Canada

Women’s challenges in indigenous knowledge food security in South Africa: The case of Alice in the Eastern Cape Province

Gabriel Acha Ekobi

University of Fort Hare, South Africa

The political economy of agroecological transitions

Ben McKay¹, Georgina Catacora-Vargas², Ryan Nehring³

1: University of Calgary, Canada; 2: Professor of Agroecology, Academic Peasant Unit “Tiahuanacu” of the Bolivian Catholic University; 3: Associate Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

Decolonial Disability Studies and Overlapping Global Crises: Transcending Traditional Development Intervention and Epistemic Paradigms

Chair(s): Alexis Padilla (University of Missouri Saint Louis)

Presentations of the Symposium

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Karen Soldatic¹, Thuy Nguyen², Shilpaa Annan^3
1Toronto Metropolitan University, ²Carlton University, ³Telangana University