Research & Action Fall/Winter 2011
Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2011
Interview by Susan Lowry Rardin
A lawyer armed with the law in the form of three UN Human Rights Conventions, Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D. seeks to amplify women鈥檚 efforts on behalf of equality and justice. One of her recent leadership events, organized with Morocco鈥檚 Ministry of the Interior, was the 鈥�Rabat Roundtable: Women Leading Change in the Arab and Muslim Communities,鈥� which was held late in the 2011 Arab Spring and involved women leaders from the Middle East/North Africa region. Her strategies, which focus especially on Asia and the Muslim/Arab communities, feature the building of networks of women鈥檚 organizations and the linking of interest groups鈥攅specially through the power of those international human rights Conventions, as she describes in this interview.
Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2011
星空无限 research and action initiatives are funded primarily by federal, state, and corporate grants and contracts. Several new and continuing projects received funding over the past six months.
Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2011
by Amy Hoffman, M.F.A.
In its September 11, 2011, issue, the New York Times Magazine brought together a group of pundits for a roundtable discussion, moderated by reporter Scott Malcolmson, of the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Michael Ignatieff, James Traub, David Rieff, Paul Berman, and Ian Buruma. Scott, Michael, James, David, Paul, and Ian: not a woman鈥攏or a person of color鈥攊n the bunch. This particular group had been invited because each had published a significant article previously in the magazine about the issues under discussion鈥攚hich doesn鈥檛 justify the choice; if anything, it makes it worse. Not only were women absent from the magazine鈥檚 9/11 anniversary discussion, but we weren鈥檛 included in the debates of the past ten years!
Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2011
Original research was a key focus at this year鈥檚 Intensive Institute held in June by the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the 星空无限. All Institute attendees paticipated in a skills-based workshop, 鈥淐reating Connection in a Sea of Disconnection: Research Informed Clinical Practice,鈥� with Mary Tantillo, Ph.D., Jennifer Sanftner, Ph.D., and Renee Spencer, Ed.D. The seminar was based on Spencer鈥檚 work on mentoring and on Tantillo鈥檚 and Sanftner鈥檚 recent article, 鈥淢easuring Perceived Mutuality in Women: Further Validation of the Connection-Disconnection Scale,鈥� published in the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health.
