October 23, 2001
Contact: Roman Baratiak
(805) 893-2078
e-mail: baratiak-r@sa.ucsb.edu

Human rights activist
Sanam B. Naraghi-Anderlini to deliver lecture,
“Women Building Peace,” at UCSB

Summary Facts:

• Sanam B. Naraghi-Anderlini
• Lecture: “Women Building Peace: From the Village Council to the Negotiating Table”
• Senior Policy Advisor with International Alert, a UK-based NGO committed to building sustainable peace
• United Nations Development Fund for Women researcher and writer
• Wednesday, November 28
• 5 pm / UCSB Corwin Pavilion
• Free event
• For information: UCSB Arts & Lectures at 893-3535

Human rights activist Sanam B. Naraghi-Anderlini will give a free lecture, “Women Building Peace: From the Village Council to the Negotiating Table,” on Wednesday, November 28 at 5 pm in UCSB Corwin Pavilion. Naraghi-Anderlini researched and authored Women at the Peace Table: Making a Difference for UNIFEM, the UN Development Fund for Women, in 1999. This monograph delineates the initial gains women like Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi have made in peace negotiations and examines other global hot spots, from Burundi to Northern Ireland, to see how women are making a difference. Naraghi-Anderlini argues “that women’s participation, whether formal or informal, has contributed to ensuring that social justice and gender equality remain central both to the agreements reached at the peace table and to the ensuing process of reconstruction and reconciliation.”

Born in Iran, Naraghi-Anderlini moved to England at the time of the Iranian Revolution. She worked as a marketing consultant and television news researcher before joining International Alert in 1996 as a speechwriter and researcher for Kumar Rupesinghe, the then Secretary-General. Now a senior policy advisor at International Alert, a U.K.-based NGO committed to establishing sustainable peace, she has coordinated and undertaken advocacy strategy to develop awareness on women, gender and peace-building, focusing on the UN Security Council, Beijing +5 Process (the review procedures following up on the 4th World Conference on Women) and UN agencies. In 1998 with Kumar Rupesinghe she co-authored Civil Wars, Civil Peace: An Introduction to Conflict Resolution (Pluto Press), a book Yehudi Menuhin, winner of the Santa Barbara-based Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award, declared “is destined to become a classic.” Naraghi-Anderlini has a Masters of Philosophy in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University and lives in Washington D.C.

This talk by Naraghi-Anderlini is presented as part of the lecture series Global Peace, Security and Human Rights by UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the UC Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, the UCSB Global Peace and Security Program, and Global and International Studies. Additional support has been provided by the UCSB Women’s Center, the Center for Middle East Studies, Santa Barbara Committee on Foreign Relations, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, PAX 2100, International Students Association at SB City College, and the International Studies Program at Ventura College.

For tickets or more information,
call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535.

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