Stop the war against women worldwide!
Create shelters for women and children in conflict zones and refugee camps!
Open safe routes to Europe for refugee women and children!
Give women the tools for leading a self-determined life!
Develop solutions and communicate success stories!
Manifest for peace and carry these demands into the world!
HUMAN RIGHTS
GRASSROOTS WOMEN AS AGENTS OF CHANGE
EDUCATION
EMPOWERMENT
INTEGRATION
Since 2011, Art of Reconciliation has organized international artistic, cultural and educational projects on the topics of reconciliation, peace work, cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. We want to raise awareness for global challenges and ask questions about the implementation of human rights and sustainable justice. We want to encourage society to take responsibility, to appreciate social justice and human rights, and change our live together for the better. We develop and organize innovative event formats with Nobel Peace Prize laureates as top-level speakers, examining the topics from different angles (economy, politics, law, religion, culture).
Through our events, we reach representatives of the fields of politics, economy, academia and culture, as well as the wide public. We have a particularly strong commitment to actively include the next generation in all aspects of our work. Beside the events, we take our social responsibility one step further: together with the foundations of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates we develop and implement regional projects in their respective home countries.
June 23-25, 2017
Seefeld in Tirol/Austria
Conference:
23.6. Women, Education & Empowerment
24.6. Women, Flight & Integration
Side Events with Waris Dirie and her Desert Flower Foundation:
24.6. Desert Flower Talk: Reading from the book “Desert Flower” & discussion
25.6. Desert Flower Walk for Peace
Programme subject to change
Conference language is German.
Plans for the future
A few months ago one could easily say that Sustainable evelopment Goals 5 (gender equality) and 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions) are rather directed towards developing countries, and have no relevance for Austria’s sustainable development, since the country meets the basic requirements of a peaceful and inclusive society, e.g. rule of law and democracy. However, the last weeks and months have shown that violent conflicts in developing countries do have a visible effect on Austria. Violence, discrimination, exclusion and intolerance are not only occuring in developing countries.
Europe is facing not only a flow of refugees, but also increasing right-wing extremism. Society’s ignoreance to global challenges like peace, human rights and gender equality harbours considerable potential for conflict and jeopardises sustainable development and peacekeeping in Austria and Europe.
We will keep raising awareness about sexual and gender based violence, by organising further events in 2017 and beyond. In addition, we are developing projects and programmes with the foundations o the Nobel Peace Prize laureates as well as the representatives of woman organisations (MENA region) whom we met during the WOMEN FOR PEACE 2016 conference.
Meet the women for peace
WARIS DIRIE A NOMAD GIRL IN SOMALIA Waris Dirie was born in 1965 into a nomad family living in the Somali desert near the border to Ethiopia. At the tender age of five, she underwent the inhuman procedure of female genital mutilation. This horrible tradition is still practiced worldwide today, both by Muslims and Christians. […]
JODY WILLIAMS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 1997 Born and raised in Vermont, Jody Williams graduated from the University of Vermont in 1972. She received her Master’s in Teaching Spanish and English as a Second Language from the School for International Training from the Experiment in International Living (now World Learning) in Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1976. In […]
SHIRIN EBADI NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2003 Dr. Shirin Ebadi was born in 1947 in Hamadan-Iran. Her father, Professor Mohammad Ali Ebadi was a lecturer in Commercial Law. When Shirin was only a year old, her family moved to Teheran where she received her education. In 1965, she started her law degree, completing it 3 years […]
LEYMAH GBOWEE 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist, trained social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is Founder and current President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa. She also founded the Liberia Reconciliation Initiative and Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Women Peace and Security Network Africa (WIPSEN-A). She is also […]
DR. RIGOBERTA MECHÚ TUM NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 1992 FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE RIGOBERTA MENCHÙ TUM FOUNDATION Dr. Rigoberta Menchú Tum, a Maya K’iche’ woman, was born in the Laj Chimel village, San Miguel Uspantán, El Quiché, to parents Vicente Menchú Perez and Juana Tum K’otoja’. She is an outstanding social leader and has […]
Art of Reconciliation (AoR) organizes international artistic and cultural events and projects with Nobel Peace Prize laureates and other distinguished guests. Taking the commitment to reconciliation one step further, AoR also develops and implements projects with the foundations of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates, in their respective home countries.
WOMEN FOR PEACE started as an international conference in June 2016, organized by Art of Reconciliation together with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and External Affairs and the Office of the UN Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict. Inspired by the extraordinary atmosphere during the conference and motivated by the contributions of both panellists and audience, WOMEN FOR PEACE will keep shining a light on exceptional personalities and their efforts in the fight for women’s rights.
Our events and projects focus mainly around the topic of sexual and gender based violence, human & women rights and the role of grassroot women in regional development. We also want to show how peace and reconciliation processes can work, by presenting best practice examples and inviting strong, commited women, such aus our Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
Send us an email at office[at]art-of-reconciliation.com
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Here you can see an excerpt of the media coverage of the 2016 WOMEN FOR PEACE conference
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Here you can find some of the amazing people who joined the 2016 WOMEN FOR PEACE conference
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