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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