16 February 2017
UNU-GEST Researcher Dr. Anne Flaspöler reflects on her participation in the Future Force Conference 2017.
Dr. Anne Flaspöler, postdoctoral researcher at EDDA and UNU-GEST, participated in breakout panel session "Operation Peace: Challenges to Peacekeeping in the 21st Century" together with relevant representatives from the academia, diplomacy and the military entities, including the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
10 February 2017
Gender Full Spectrum Blog Series: How Migrant Women are Leading Locally in France, Spain & beyond
Janina Pescinski, a Junior Research Fellow at UNU-GCM in their Female Agency, Mobility and Sociocultural Change programme, has contributed to the UNU Gender Full Spectrum blog series with an article on how female migrants can have a voice in local politics and challenge the divide between formal and informal politics by enacting their universal human rights to assembly, association and expression in the public sphere.
3 February 2017
Lecture series event: Keiko Nowacka from the OECD Development Centre discusses SDG#5
"Achieving the gender SDGs: the OECD Development Centre's work on social norms, gender statistics and transformative policy making" is a lecture given by Keiko Nowacka on Thursday, 9 February at 12:00, in the National Museum’s lecture hall. Keiko is the second lecturer in the UNU-GEST & RIKK 2017 Spring Lecture Series.
27 January 2017
UNU-FTP fellow Chrisphine Nyamweya to defend PhD at the University of Iceland
Chrisphine Sangara Nyamweya of Kenya first came to Iceland as a fellow of the UNU-FTP in 2012. Through funding provided by the UNU-FTP, he enrolled in a doctoral programme at the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences a the University of Iceland. He will defend his PhD in Ecological Modeling at the Hátíðarsalur in the University of Iceland's Main Building on Monday, January 30th at 10:00.
19 January 2017
First RIKK and UNU-GEST lecture series event; documentary screening and discussions 19.01.17
"Notes towards a history", an experimental documentary by Francesca Soans, was screened today at the Iceland National Museum's lecture. This was the first event of UNU-GEST and RIKK lecture series for the spring semester of 2017.
17 January 2017
UNU- GEST welcomes the class of 2017!
The United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST) Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland is welcoming eighteen fellows, twelve women and six men, during the spring semester of 2017.