{"id":18031,"date":"2012-12-03T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/2012\/12\/avslutningsseminarium-foer-projektet-overcoming-gender-disparities-as-a-tool-for-social-change-en\/"},"modified":"2012-12-03T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T13:37:48","slug":"avslutningsseminarium-foer-projektet-overcoming-gender-disparities-as-a-tool-for-social-change-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/avslutningsseminarium-foer-projektet-overcoming-gender-disparities-as-a-tool-for-social-change-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing seminar of the project  \u201dOvercoming Gender Disparities as a Tool for Social Change\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tool for Social Change\u201d has been implemented since autumn 2010 as a tripartite cooperation between the \u00c5land Islands Peace Institute, the non-governmental kindergarten \u201cNendre\u201d in Lithuania and the non-commercial partnership \u201cThe Star of Hope\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>A discussion free from judgment with integrated gender perspective has been used as the main method with the aim to increase the participants\u2019 awareness of gender (in)equality and gender norms in the society as well as to promote their empowerment and self-esteem.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u00c5land Islands Peace Institute, gave account for their findings and recommendations.&nbsp; Gender awareness among the project participants has, in general, increased, but the process of attitude change requires a longer period of time, in particularly among adult men.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar was also attended by a number of gender experts from Lithuania who presented their experiences of gender equality work with the focus on both women and men.<\/p>\n<p>The project was financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers and Emmaus \u00c5land.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-16926\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" alt=\"vilnius 2\" src=\"https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/vilnius-2.jpg\" height=\"98\" width=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/vilnius-2.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/vilnius-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/vilnius-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/vilnius-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16928\" style=\"margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;\" alt=\"ogd1\" src=\"https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ogd1.jpg\" height=\"98\" width=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ogd1.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ogd1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ogd1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ogd1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16930\" style=\"margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;\" alt=\"nendre ogd\" src=\"https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nendre-ogd.jpg\" height=\"98\" width=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nendre-ogd.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nendre-ogd-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nendre-ogd-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peace.ax\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nendre-ogd-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tool for Social Change\u201d has been implemented since autumn 2010 as a tripartite cooperation between the \u00c5land Islands Peace Institute, the non-governmental kindergarten \u201cNendre\u201d in Lithuania and the non-commercial partnership \u201cThe Star of Hope\u201d 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\u2019 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 \u00c5land Islands Peace Institute, gave account for their findings and recommendations.&nbsp; Gender awareness among the project participants has, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nyhet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}