Navigating Marriage Decisions: Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Ghanaian Society

Murtala Labaran Gariba¹, Agartha Pokuaah Aduse Oduro², Sabiu Mohammed Gariba³, Ibrahim Mohammed Gariba⁴

1: Chereponi District Assembly, Ghana, University for Development Studies, Ghana; 2: Achiase District Assembly, Ghana; 3: University for Development Studies, Ghana; 4: University of Pardubice, Studentská 95, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic

United Nations and African Union Inclusion of Women with Disabilities in Peacebuilding Efforts

Kirsten Van Houten¹, Fabian Garcia²

1: University of the Fraser Valley, Canada; 2: University of Guelph, Canada

Post-Secondary Experiences of International Students: Voices of Disabled Women from the Global South Studying in Canada

Linh Thuy Dang, Rosemary Condillac

Brock University, Canada

Navigating Fieldwork in Repressive Homelands: Strategies and Challenges for Local Researchers.

Merouan Mekouar, Kira Jumet

York University, Canada

Gazing and Performing: Can the practitioner be perceived?

Remy Bargout

University of Ottawa, Canada

Forging bonds within the neoliberal university: Three graduate women’s experiences forming a feminist collaborative space

Lina Aburas Awadalla¹, Karen Spring², Phuong Tran³

1: University of Ottawa, Canada; 2: University of Ottawa, Canada; 3: University of Ottawa, Canada

Reflections on Fieldwork: Activists, Research, and Knowledge Production

Nausheen Quayyum

York University, Canada

Extractivist development revisited: The changing political, economic, and socio-environmental dynamics of energy transitions

Chair(s): John P. Hayes (University of Calgary, Canada), Alicja Krubnik (McMaster University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Policy Entrepreneurs & Advocacy Coalitions in the Mexican Mining Sector: 2006-2018

John P. Hayes
University of Calgary

The Role of Development Financing in Green Industrialization: A Critical IPE Analysis of Brazil and Ecuador

Alicja Krubnik
McMaster University

Open Veins of a Global Energy Transition: the Unresolved Politics of Lithium Extraction in Bolivia

Craig Johnson¹, Manuel Olivera Andrade^2
1University of Guelph, ²CIDES – UMSA

From Commodity Consensus to Extractive Bans: Social and Indigenous Movements Mobilizing against Extractivism Across the Americas

Thomas Chiasson-Lebel
Université de l’Ontario français

Hand in Hand? Exploring Non-Traditional Actors in Canadian Foreign Policy at the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus

Chair(s): Kirsten Van Houten (University of the Fraser Valley, Canada)

Presentations of the Symposium

Reconciliation, Foreign Policy, and Global Affairs Canada: A Mismatch between Rhetoric and Practice in GAC’s Action Plan on Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples

Adam Gaudry
University of Alberta

Human Rights, Violence, and Civil Society: Canadian Civil Society Organizations Challenge Canadian Foreign Policy in the Americas, By: Laura Mac Donald

Laura Macdonald
Carleton University

Canada and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Reconciling Ambition, Challenges, and Policy Coherence

Madison Filmore
University of Ottawa

Canada's human-rights-based responses to peacebuilding efforts in the context of mass atrocity

Andrew Thompson
Balsillie School

Decolonizing Participation though Silence

Neha Soni Arora, Kristina Berynets

Simon Fraser University, Canada

Decolonizing the Field of Project Management: Decentering Western Dominance in ‘Development’ Projects

Ruby Dagher

University of Ottawa, Canada

Decolonizing Narratives: Exploring the Canadian Aporetic Condition in International Development

John Wilfred Bessai

Okanagan College, Canada

Theatre of the Oppressed as a Community-Building Tool for International Students: Paradigms Shift

Rita Dhungel, Asha Thapa, Niraj Joshi, shelley Liebembuk, Jessica Ho, Sampada Subedi, Krishta Timalsina, Kanchan Thapa, Slesha Chhetri, Nishan Pun, Samir Thapa, Bikash Shah

University of the Fraser Valley, Canada

Bridging Perspectives: Examining the Conceptualizations of Development Contributions Among International Scholarship Returnees and Donor Countries

Mai Anh Phuong Tran

University of Ottawa, Canada

'Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to stay': International students' fight for justice in Canada

Ethel Tungohan

York University, Canada

Constructing the Ideal Woman Farmer in Ethiopia: How Gender Representations become embedded in Digital Agriculture Initiatives

Matthew Schnurr, Selamawit Abdella

Dalhousie University, Canada

Developing gender-responsive, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed learning tools to address GBV and development challenges in fishing communities in Kenya

Philip Onguny¹, Neil Arya², Ilene Hayman³, Patricia Orawo⁴, Caroline Odera⁵, Melissa Whaling², Philip Osano⁶, Victoria Gachuche¹, Yassin Ally⁷, Mumbua Mutunga⁸, Austin Omondi⁹, Sylvia Scott¹⁰

1: Saint Paul University, Canada; 2: PEGASUS Institute, Canada; 3: University of Toronto, Canada; 4: STADA, Kenya; 5: WISE-Hub, Kenya; 6: Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI), Kenya; 7: Kivulini - Women's Rights Oragnization, Tanzania; 8: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 9: Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya; 10: Caring Partners Global Inc

Building foundations for change through Feminist Participatory Action Research: Insights and learnings from working with adolescent mothers in Uganda

Shelley Jones, Kathleen Manion

Royal Roads University, Canada

“pls send me pics” : sexual harassment and Indonesian and Filipino domestic workers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ashlynn Ashita Chand

York University, Canada

Rethinking Development through the Lens of Feminist Flourishing

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

Presentations of the Symposium

Decolonializing Development Through Expanding our Understanding of Wellbeing: Exploring Feminist Flourishing as a Conceptual Framework

Rebecca Tiessen, Ayewa Donko
University of Ottawa

‘Love On Top of Mercy’: Complex Decision Making Among Women Who Survived Wartime Forced Marriage in Northern Uganda

Ketty Anyeko
University of Toronto

Feminist Flourishing as a New Lens for Enhancing Women’s Participation in Peace Processes: An Analysis of Women’s ‘Advisory’ Boards in Yemen and Syria

Madi Fillmore
University of Ottawa

Emotional Wellbeing as a Determinant of Adolescent Flourishing in Uganda

Daniel Kikulwe
York University