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Changing Faces Women's Leadership Program
Changing Faces is a leadership development program for women from the United
States and the Asia Pacific region.
Now accepting applications for the 2008 program Women and Conflict
Transformation in Asia, the Pacific, and the United States
*Program dates:* July 20 - 31, 2008
*Application Deadline:* February 15, 2008
"Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this
day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life."
—Anton Chekhov, Russian author and playwright
In a region experiencing a wide range of low-and high-intensity conflicts
the assertion that conflict is unavoidable certainly rings true. The real
choice then, lies is in how to confront, analyze, and respond to conflict in
a way that moves society forward toward positive change. The importance of
women's participation in peacebuilding, security decision-making, and
conflict transformation, has been most clearly put forth in UN Security
Council Resolution 1325 in the year 2000: "stressing the importance of their
equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance
and promotion of peace and security, and the need to increase their role in
decision-making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution." Notably,
the resolution calls on all actors involved in negotiating and implementing
peace agreements to institute support local women's peace initiatives and
indigenous processes for conflict resolution, and that involve women in all
of the implementation mechanisms of the peace agreements. In a statement
during open debate on women, peace, and security issues marking the fifth
anniversary of the adoption of Resolution 1325 in October 2005, the Romanian
delegation to the Security Council articulated the compelling motivation for
women's representation: "Women should be acknowledged as having a valuable
contribution to their societies and to international relations not because
of their high potential to become victims, but because they are recognized
as valuable and skillful resources, able to make a difference and bring
added-value to peace processes in all parts of the world."
The 2008 Changing Faces Women's Leadership Program will focus on the issue
of women's involvement in conflict transformation. Conflict may arise in
relation to political recognition and representation, or access to natural,
social, or economic resources, and at every level: from the community to
international. And when conflicts arise, every level and facet of society is
affected: economic development and sustainability, resource allocation and
use, education, and public policy. Women's involvement in the transformation
of these conflict situations is imperative. The 2008 program seeks
professional women, in both the public and private sectors, at lower and
middle level positions of leadership from around the United States and the
Asia Pacific region to participate in a program of dialogue, exchange, and
leadership skills building focused on the issue of women and conflict
transformation.
Application Requirements
Women from all professional backgrounds, including elected officials,
government agencies, civil society organizations, the private sector,
education, and the media, who have 5–12 years of work experience and are
active in community development, inter-communal/inter-religious dialogue, or
current conflict/post-conflict peacebuilding efforts are welcome to apply.
In particular, the program seeks applicants with demonstrated leadership
experience, either professionally or through voluntary community activities,
and who have the potential to move into positions of greater responsibility
and influence. Applicants must have the ability to use English in a
multi-cultural, professional setting. Preference will be given to candidates
without significant previous international travel experience.
Costs for participation (housing accommodations, meals related to the
program, ground transportation, program materials, and a modest per diem)
will be provided by the East-West Center. *Participants will be responsible
for their round-trip transportation to Honolulu as well as all fees for
obtaining their visas.* A limited number of travel stipends (contingent on
available funding) will be available for participants from developing
countries, however selected participants should expect some level of
cost-sharing.
*PDF version* of the program
announcement.
(PDF, 89 KB)
To apply please submit the following:
1. The Applicant Contact Information
Sheet(PDF,
70 KB). (This form can be downloaded and filled in using Adobe
Acrobat software,
which is available free of charge from the Adobe
website.)
2. Letter of interest highlighting previous leadership experience and
expressing what the applicant hopes to gain from the program. Resume
including work and educational experience. (Two pages maximum)
3. Two professional letters of recommendation. A written response, not
to exceed 1,000 words, to ONE of the following questions:
- What challenges do women in positions of leadership, or those who
wish to move into positions of leadership, face in your society?
- What have been the most important influences on your leadership
style?
- What is women's most important role in peacebuilding?
*Applications must be received at the East-West Center no later than
February 15, 2008. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. *
Applications may be submitted as follows:
*Email:* ChangingFaces@EastWestCenter.org
*Fax:* 1-808-944-7600 (ATTN: Changing Faces Program)
*Post:*
East-West Seminars
ATTN: Changing Faces Program
East-West Center
1601 East-West Rd.
Honolulu, HI 96848 USA
*Please note:* Letters of recommendation should be on letterhead and display
the signature of the individual making the recommendation. Faxes are
acceptable. If you wish to submit letters of recommendation via e-mail they
MUST display the scanned letterhead and signature of the recommender.
Program Overview
The Changing Faces program is made up of the following components:
Pre-Arrival Phase
Each participant will be asked to identify a priority issue, either for her
organization or her community, and to outline ways in which she sees herself
exercising leadership to address the issue. Participants will engage in
online dialogue through the program website.
Honolulu Seminar
Workshops will cover topics including communication, team-building,
organizational planning, and models of leadership in differing cultural
contexts. Drawing on East-West Center and community expertise, participants
will meet with specialists and practitioners to explore a variety of
leadership case studies. In addition, community resource persons and local
site visits will highlight community building and dialogue activities taking
place in the culturally and ethnically diverse state of Hawai`i. During the
seminar, participants will formulate a one-year personal action plan to be
implemented following their return home.Program participants will be asked
to make presentations on the critical issues they identified prior to
arrival and how these issues may be impacted positively through their own
leadership.
Follow-up
Refine action plan relating to the critical issue and identify measurable
steps to be taken to address the issue. Maintain regular contact with
program staff and fellow participants through the program website and
listserve and provide updates on action plan progress. Participants will be
asked to submit a formal progress report in April 2009.
Program History
"I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public
issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their differing
areas of concern for the welfare of their families and their world... Too
often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up
wholly of men or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special
value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
*--Eleanor Roosevelt, December 1952*
When women are empowered to exercise leadership at all levels it is not just
in the service of women, but as a contribution to the betterment of society
as a whole. Now more than ever, communities and organizations across the
Asia Pacific region are in need of balanced and constructive leadership.
Launched in 2002, Changing Faces is a program designed to bring together
women from the United States and the Asia Pacific region to participate in
dialogue on leadership and issues specific to women in leadership around the
region. The program seeks professional women at lower and middle level
positions of leadership who have the potential to move into positions of
greater responsibility and influence.
For More Information
E-mail: ChangingFaces@EastWestCenter.org
Fax: (808) 944-7600
Phone: (808) 944-7384
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