On 21 of July 2019, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi received Sorani Mama Hama Prize, given by Livin Magazine, for Freedom of Press. The other two 2019 recipients were Leyla Guven and Fariq Halabjayee. Soran Muhamad Aziz, also known as Sorani Mama Hama, was born in 1986 in Kirkuk....
On August 24 and 25 , 2019, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi took part in Beyond Boarders International Festival, celebrating its 10 th anniversary. The event took place in the ancient Traquire House, on the Scottish borders. Dr. Choman took part in the festival by giving a poetry reading...
Between 19 and 23 July, 2019 CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi took part in a Women in Conflict 1325 Fellowship Programme focusing on the arts as a peacebuilding tool. The fellowship was organized by Beyond Borders Scotland and funded by the Scottish government. The fellowship program included a private...
On Monday September 2 nd , 2019, CGDS met with two representatives of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Mr. Lionel Laforgue, the GBV Coordinator in the Humanitarian Programme, and Ms. Azhee Amin, UNFPA’s Gender Programme Analyst, spoke with the CGDS team about working together to promote applied gender...
On August 29 Dastan Jasim, visiting scholar at CGDS, held a workshop on qualitative methods and the application of those in RQDA. The objective of the workshop was to generally give a differentiation between quantitative and qualitative methods but also to show the many possibilities between these two types...
Dastan Jasim The Center for Gender and Development Studies is hosting Ms. Dastan Jasim, a master’s student of Political Sciences and Assyriology at the University of Heidelberg. She obtained a scholarship, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, that allows her to do fieldwork in Kurdistan. She worked with a not-for-profit...
