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Using a Yashica 28mmf2,8 ML lens with my EOS R. Set this lens to f/8 and focal distance to infiniy.. PSRP-1-58
Christopher Gardner is the owner and CEO of Christopher Gardner International Holdings with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Surmounting acute obstacles on his road to success, Gardner is an avid motivational speaker, addressing the keys to self-empowerment, beating odds, and breaking cycles. Gardner is also a passionate philanthropist committed to many charitable organizations.
The amazing story of Gardner’s life was published as an autobiography, The Pursuit of Happyness, (Amistad/Harper Collins) on May 23, 2006, and became a New York Times and Washington Post #1 bestseller. Gardner is also the inspiration for the movie The Pursuit of Happyness released by Columbia Pictures on December 15, 2006. The movie was #1 at the box office its opening weekend. Will Smith stars as Gardner and received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nominations for his performance. Gardner is an associate producer on the movie.
Always hard working and tenacious, a series of circumstances in the early 1980’s left Gardner homeless in San Francisco and the sole guardian of his toddler son. Unwilling to give up Chris Jr. or his dream of financial independence, Gardner started at the bottom. Without connections or a college degree, he earned a spot in the Dean Witter Reynolds training program. Often spending his nights in a church shelter or the bathroom at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland, Gardner was the sole trainee offered a job at Dean Witter Reynolds in 1981. He spent 1983-1987 at Bear Stearns & Co., where he became a top earner, and then in 1987, he founded the brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co. in Chicago.
Born February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Gardner never knew his father. He lived with his mother, Bettye Jean Gardner, whom he adored, and, when necessary, in foster homes. Despite a life of hardship and emotional scarring, his mother provided him with strong “spiritual genetics” and taught him some of the greatest lessons of his life, which he follows to this day. Bettye Jean convinced him that in spite of where he came from, he could attain whatever goals he set for himself by saying, “If you want to, one day you could make a million dollars.” Gardner believed this to be fact, and knew he would have to find a career he could be passionate about, and one that would allow him to “be world-class at something.”
Straight out of high school, Gardner enlisted in the Navy, just like his uncles, his role models, had done. After the military, Gardner went to San Francisco and took a job as a medical supply salesman. Then he reached a turning point in his life. In a parking lot, he met a man driving a red Ferrari. "He was looking for a parking space. I said, 'You can have mine, but I gotta ask you two questions.' The two questions were: What do you do? And how do you do that? Turns out this guy was a stockbroker and he was making $80,000 a month."
That pivotal encounter gave Gardner a clear career goal and he began knocking on doors, applying for training programs at brokerages even though it meant he would have to live on next to nothing while he learned. When he was finally accepted into a program, he left his job in medical sales. But his plans collapsed when the man who offered him the training slot was fired, and Gardner had no job to go back to. Then he was put in jail for $1,200 in parking violations he couldn't pay. Chris Jr.’s mother left and Gardner, despite his circumstances, fought to keep his son because, as he says, "I made up my mind as a young kid that when I had children they were going to know who their father is, and that he isn’t going anywhere."
Finally managing to enter the training program at Dean Witter Reynolds, Gardner’s meager stipend as a trainee meant he, like so many working poor in America, had a job but couldn't make ends meet. Chris’s co-workers never knew he spent his evenings trying to arrange day care, find food and a safe place for him and his son to sleep. After spending nights in a locked bathroom at an Oakland subway station, Gardner persuaded Rev. Cecil Williams, founder of a new shelter program for homeless women at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, to let him and Chris Jr. stay at the shelter.
Gardner passed his licensing exam in 1981on the first try. He arrived early, stayed late and worked the phones day after day to lure new clients. He and Chris Jr. got an apartment, and in 1983 he joined Bear, Stearns & Company. After becoming a top producer, first in San Francisco and later in New York, Gardner left in 1987 to establish Gardner Rich & Company, Inc., an institutional brokerage firm specializing in the execution of debt, equity and derivative products transactions for some of the nations largest institutions, public pension plans and unions. The company has expanded into Christopher Gardner International Holdings and now has a business project underway in South Africa.
Gardner reaches out to many programs serving the homeless, donating time, assistance, and funds. Foremost among these are the Glide United Methodist Church in San Francisco and The Cara Program in Chicago. At Glide, Gardner assists with fundraising, donates clothes and shoes, and speaks at services and events. He is also involved in a plan to revitalize and provide new housing in the neighborhood around Glide. At Cara, which assists the homeless and at-risk populations in Chicago with comprehensive job training and placement, Gardner speaks at counseling sessions, assists with permanent job placement, and also donates clothing and shoes.
Gardner serves as a board member of the National Fatherhood Initiative, whose mission is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers. Gardner was the recipient of the group’s Father of the Year Award in 2002.
Gardner is particularly committed to educational organizations. He serves on the board of the National Education Foundation and sponsors two annual awards: the National Education Association’s National Educational Support Personnel Award and the American Federation of Teachers’ Paraprofessionals and School-Related Personnel (PSRP) Award. He is also involved with the Chicago Teachers’ Union, sponsoring activities and outings for Chicago public school kids.
In addition to the father of the Year Award, Gardner has also been honored by the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women (LACAAW) with the 25th Annual Humanitarian Award, and by the Continental Africa Chamber of Commerce with the 2006 Friends of Africa Award.
Chris Gardner’s remarkable story of struggle, faith, entrepreneurialism, and fatherly devotion has catapulted him beyond the notoriety he has found on Wall Street. He has been featured on the “Evening News with Dan Rather,” “20/20,” “Oprah,” “Today Show,” “The View,” “Entertainment Tonight,” CNN, CNBC, Fox News Channel as well as being the subject of profiles in numerous newspapers and magazines including People, USA Today, Associated Press, New York Times, Fortune, Jet, Reader’s Digest, Trader Monthly, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He is also a highly sought-after speaker.
Gardner has two children and resides in Chicago and New York.
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Kate Rice, University of Toronto, who presented on 'Men's Anxieties about false Beating and Rape Accusations in Rural South Africa: Implications for Understanding Gender'.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Marieke Froehlich, Basel University/Swisspeace who prtesented with Sarah Pelham, independent researcher, on 'Possibilities and realities of competing configurations of masculinity in the context of the 'refugee crisis'.'
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or resttucturing of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu... .
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Isabella Flisi, Transitional Justice Instutute, Ulster University, who presented on 'DDR as an opportunity to address Masculinities: Reflections on the Colombian Peace Negotiations'.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
President B. Jones with members D. Gillespie, A. Powell, and M. Thomas of Chastain M.S. post presenting the First-Place Award for the JFT/PSRP JPSD Parent Teacher Conference Competition. Mrs. Gillespie led all middle schools in the entire district with 97 percent Parent Participation for the September 26, 2011 Conference.
This photo shows the panel for a roundtable discussion, 'Masculinities Work in Practice, from the Local to the Global'. From left: Carol Wrenn (Trócaire); Callum Watson (DCAF/Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces); Hannah Wright (Saferworld); Dave Magee (speaking on research on loyalist men in Northern Ireland); Anne Maki-Rahkola (former Gender Advisor, EUPOL, Afghanistan), and Henri Myrttinen (International Alert), chair.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Ekaterina Rozanova, University of London, Goldsmiths College, who presented on 'Human Security and Masculinities'.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Jan Melia, University of Aberdeen, who presented on 'Masculinities and Violence: Discourse and Practice'.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Brandon Hamber, INCORE/Ulster University, who instead of presenting his paper at the end of a long day gave a pithy summary of the six questions which he saw emerging.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Stephanie Oula, London School of Economics (LSE) and United Nations Foundation, who presented on "A Mobilization of Post-Conflict Masculinity: a re/construction of the nation-state through organized male engagement in Rwanda'.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Ebru Demir, University of Sussex, who presented on 'Ethno-Nationalism, Masculinities and the Reproductive Rights and Autonomy of Women in Post-Conflict Situations'.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Discussants for the third panel presentations were Synne Dyvik, University of Sussex, left, and Fidelma Ashe, Ulster University.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
OSEA members including Government Relations Committee Chair Misty Talerico and Zone I Director Chelsea Shotts talk with Lauren Samet, director of AFT PSRP.
Koen Slootnaeckers, Queen Mary University of London, who was the discussant on the first panel presentations.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Some of those attending the conference talking during a coffee break.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or resttucturing of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu... .
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Emma Brännlund , National University of Ireland, Galway,
who presented on 'Militarised masculinities and respectable feminities: Gender, violence and Kashmir'.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
This photo shows, from left, Henri Myrttinen of International Alert, Chris Dolan of the Refugee Law Project, and Philipp Schulz, one of the organisers from TJI.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu... .
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) was a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, Congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury. He was also a founder of New York University.
Heleen Touquet, left, University of Leuven, and Ellen Gorris, independent researcher, who presented on 'Secondary victims: Men and Boys' magininality in conceptualizations of conflict-related sexual violence'.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Karen De Villiers Graaff, University of Stellenbosch, who presented on 'Masculinities and Violence in Post-Conflict South Africa'.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu...
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).
Students at Saucedo Elementary set up a band to serenade their striking teachers, clinicians and PSRPs.
Ford's Theatre, 511 10th Street, earned notoriety on Apr. 14, 1865, at 10:15pm when President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of Our American Cousin. John Thomson Ford (1829-94), the builder of the theater, was imprisoned for more than a month after the assassination until acquitted of complicity. Congress then forced him to sell the theater, and closed it to further productions. Misfortune struck again in 1893 when part of the edifice collapsed, killing 28 people. Since 1968 the building has been maintained by the National Park Service as a Lincoln museum, with the presidential box restored to its original condition.
Some of those attending the conference talking during a coffee break.
The postgraduate conference, “Masculinities, Violence and (Post-)Conflict”, which took place on 14th January 2016 was organised by TJI/The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, in association with INCORE and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at UU along with International Alert, Saferworld, Conciliation Resources and PSRP.
This is a topic which is gaining additional attention but is a difficult one in some ways. While the redefinition or restructuring of masculinities is a key aspect of building peace in all societies, the issues have to be dealt with in such a way that does not either divert attention from, or proclaim greater need than, violence against women and children. After all, most violence is against women. But issues of men as victims (usually but not always by other men) and of what men need to move forward and away from violence and abuse are not sufficiently covered or explored.
As a way of portraying some of the researchers and research being done in this field we include in this photo feature all the presenters at the conference, and include the institution they are associated with, and the topic they presented on.
TJI is at www.ulster.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-institu... .
An article about this conference appears in INNATE’s monthly publication ‘Nonviolent News’ at www.innatenonviolence.org/readings/2016_02.shtml (after a piece entitled ‘Women and Peacemaking: the state of play’).