As part of our EU-funded project on gender education in the MENA region, CGDS is offering a four-day workshop, “Introduction to Social Justice,” for NGO workers from Baghdad and southern Iraq. Thirty two participants were hosted at the Titanic Hotel in Sulaimani, where the workshop took place. The...
On August 18, 2019, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi and EU Project Manager Mr. Shko Shwan met with a delegation from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Jordan, Mr. Roar (Rob) Haugsdal, Minister Counsellor, Ms. Marie Louise Teige, Senior Advisor, and Mr. Knut Eiliv Lein, Special Representative...
On September 5, 2019, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi and LSE Project Manager Mr. Miran Fattah met with UK Consul General in Kurdistan, Mr. James Thornton and Mr. Vinay Anicatt, Head of Political Team. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce CGDS projects to the Consul General, discuss...
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 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...
Dr. Hawzhin Azeez will join the Center for Gender and Development Studies as a full-semester Visiting Scholar. Dr. Hawzhin, whose PhD is from the University of Newcastle, Australia, works on a variety of topics in Political Science, with a focus on nation building and post war reconstruction....
Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director and Professor in the Social Sciences, has had a paper accepted for presentation at the 4th World Disability & Rehabilitation Conference 2019 (WDRC 2019), to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2019. The paper, “Disability Perceptions and Policy in Sulaimani, Kurdistan,” links the...
