Background
DAWN has described the first decade of the 21st century
as the painful birthing of a “fierce new world” in
light of the paradigmatic shifts induced by a run-away
neoliberal globalization; a militarized and financialized
political economy; a crisis in climate and other natural
systems; a deepening food crisis; an energy crisis
from fossil-fuel dependence; the decline of the nation-state;
and the reconfiguration of the geopolitical context.
These crises have generated heated debates on the
restructuring of global governance. Pressures to respond
to these challenges in all their complexities have
come to preoccupy sovereign nations and the peoples
they govern. At the same time, these nations and peoples
struggle to uphold values associated with sustainable
livelihoods, poverty eradication, human rights promotion,
freedom of expression and mobility, respect for identity
and sexuality.
DAWN recognizes this developing multilateral terrain
as part of a fierce new world that is replete with
complicated contradictions, serious fractures, severe
backlash, broken promises, and uncertain outcomes
for the world's women, especially women from the economic
South. There is an urgent need for women's and civil
society organizations to critically engage with these
debates and advocate strongly for a world where economic
and climate justice coincide with gender justice.
In response, the DAWN Training Institute, a three-week
intensive training programme, was launched in 2002.
The programme draws on both DAWN's feminist analysis
which interlinks issues under the themes of Political
Economy of Globalisation including Gender and Trade,
Political Ecology and Sustainability, Sexual and Reproductive
Health and Rights, and Political Restructuring and
Social Transformation; and the network's considerable
experience in UN conference processes and other sites
of struggle, including the global civil society movement
against neoliberal economic globalisation, as well
as regional, sub-regional and national processes.
The fourth DAWN Training Institute will be held in
Southeast Asia from 10 October – 28 October 2011.
It is being organised by Development Alternatives
with Women for a New Era.
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July 23, 2010.
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