Closing seminar of the project ”Overcoming Gender Disparities as a Tool for Social Change”
Tool for Social Change” has been implemented since autumn 2010 as a tripartite cooperation between the Åland Islands Peace Institute, the non-governmental kindergarten “Nendre” in Lithuania and the non-commercial partnership “The Star of Hope” in the Kaliningrad region, Russia. During one and a half years educated leaders in Lithuania and the Kaliningrad region have been conducting girl and boy group meetings as well as meetings for men and women. A discussion free from judgment with integrated gender perspective has been used as the main method with the aim to increase the participants’ awareness of gender (in)equality and gender norms in the society as well as to promote their empowerment and self-esteem. The closing seminar took place on 27-28 September in the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Vilnius, Lithuania, and was opened by the director Bo Harald Tillberg. The partner organizations presented the challenges and achievements of the project implementation on the local level. Chairperson of the Karelian Center for Gender Studies in Russia, Larisa Boichenko, who has studied the project results together with the project manager Justina Donielaite at the Åland Islands Peace Institute, gave account for their findings and recommendations. Gender awareness among the project participants has, in […]
Visit from Lithuania to Mediation Bureau
Two lecturers, Genovaite Rosiene and Iveta Vitkute-Zvezdiniene from Kaunas University, Faculty of Economics and Law, in Lithuania did a 3 day study visit in the Mediation Bureau and the Åland Island Peace Institute 20-22 of November 2012. The lecturers are specializing in criminal law and interested in studying practical and legal aspects of Mediation. They are interested in starting a similar service in Kaunas. The visit was done through the European Social Fund, under the Operational Programme for the Development of Human Resources, administrated by UNDP Lithuania. The program allows university employees to go for study visits and students to go for internships at workplaces in cooperating countries.