GWNP | War & Peace Series | September 2024
Special Focus on Duty of Care Training and Conflict Journalism
Global Women’s Narratives Project | War & Peace Series
1 - 6 September 2024
Held at Merton College, University of Oxford
7 - 10 September 2024—Join volunteer narrative teams in Northern Ireland, or Cairo, Egypt.
Our global landscape is dominated by wars and conflict, brutally revealing human tragedy, devastation, and desperation. How do we find hope in successful peacebuilding endeavors, strategic moral diplomacy, and the resilience of the human spirit? Join us for an interactive week in Oxford with faculty and practitioners with a focus on our Duty of Care training, trauma-sensitivity, and narrative interviewing techniques. This workshop particularly benefits trauma-informed fieldwork and working with vulnerable populations in conflict-prone areas.
We will explore the roles and agency of women—how they participate in their conflicts—and ways of breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma on communities. The workshop will feature interactive sessions created by our Fellows and partners, with new sessions on the vulnerability of women in politics and pressing issues facing women journalists and media coverage in war zones.
The daily schedule in Oxford is generally 9:00 am to 3:30 pm, with one evening session and one half-day free to tour Oxford. Previous schedules are on the 2022 and 2023 workshop pages.
Immediately following the Oxford portion, there will be two separate opportunities to join small GWNP narrative teams (five to eight members) to interview women in Belfast/Derry or Cairo. We will post additional information on this fieldwork by late April/early May. Acceptance as a delegate for the Oxford workshop does not guarantee placement on a fieldwork team. Oxford GWNP student editors and partners receive first consideration, after which our 2024 workshop delegates will be considered for the remaining openings in the order applications are received. We can let you know immediately if spaces remain open. After completing the training in September, delegates are considered part of our community and are encouraged to apply for any future GWNP team fieldwork. Our plans for Spring and Summer 2025 will focus on partnerships in Cairo, Egypt, and Accra, Ghana.
Resonate Joy Nonprofit, an arm of the Optimum Joy private practice in Chicago, IL, USA, partners with the Global Women’s Narratives Project to provide trauma-informed training and therapeutic support. Trauma specialists lead several sessions in our Oxford training and will be joining the work in Northern Ireland and Cairo, Egypt, in September.
GWNP team members in Northern Ireland, 2023.
Join us.
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Course fees cover tuition and all course materials, private en suite dorm accommodation at Oxford, breakfast, afternoon tea, several lunches, and a final banquet dinner.
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Covers tuition, all course materials, afternoon tea, several lunches, and a final banquet dinner. Day delegates do not have Merton dorm accommodation or breakfast included.
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All participants must meet their travel costs to Oxford and arrange any country entry requirements.
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We host three one-hour online sessions led by Oxford Initiative faculty and fellows in the weeks preceding our workshop. These sessions prepare delegates for the intensive workshop week by offering theoretical grounding and essential background knowledge. We will distribute course materials in late July.
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We welcome applications from all who resonate with the mission of our project. We encourage accomplished professionals, graduate students, and experienced undergraduates to apply. Applications are considered bi-weekly on a rolling basis until the workshop is full (22 max). Waitlisting is possible.
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Don’t hesitate to email us at admin@oxfordgloblethics.org with any questions. We are happy to schedule a phone call or Zoom to discuss further.
