News-Line on Women’s Inititatives for a Culture of Peace

1. Student scholarship

: The International Peace Research Association Foundation, IPRA, is offering a two-year scholarship to Third World women to do graduate work in areas of interest to IPRA. This award is contingent on acceptance into a graduate peace and conflict studies program. Next award date: February 15, 2000. Application deadline: January 15, 1999.

For further information please contact: Ms Linda Johnston at telephone number 1 703 993 1300, email: ljohnst3@gmu.edu

2. The Women and a Culture of Peace programme has organized a Presentation and Discussion on Men Against Violence: A Culture of Peace Perspective which will be held on Saturday October 30, 1999, from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm in Salle XIV at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The guest speaker at this occasion will by Mr. Michael Kaufman, founder and International Director of the White Ribbon Campaign.

For futher information please contact: Ms Ingeborg Breines at telephone number 33 1 45 68 12 12, email: i.breines@unesco.org

3. During the 27^th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies a round-table workshop, organized by the Swedish Red Cross in collaboration with UNESCO and UNICEF will be held on Promoting a Culture of Peace: Highlighting the Role of Men and Masculinity at the Omega Auditorium, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Wednesday, November 3, 1999 from 13:00 – 17:00.

For further information please contact: Ms Lena Hansson at email: lena.birgitta.hansson@redcross.se

4. The Seventh Congress of the Association of Interbalkan Women’s Cooperation Societies, UNESCO Center for Women and Peace in the Balkan countries on the theme Human Rights and Culture of Peace will be held in Tirana, Albania from November 19-20, 1999.

For further information please contact: The UNESCO Center for Women and Peace in the Balkan Countries at telephone number 031 42 22 70, fax: 031 42 22 71

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