Event Type
Conferences and Workshops

Current Realities, Future Challenges

Event Dates
2014-10-30 - 2014-10-31
Location
Akureyri, Iceland
Find out more
http://www.arcticiceland.is/en/gender-equality-in-the-arctic

The conference on Gender Equality in the Arctic will broadly focus on the living condition of women and men throughout the Circumpolar North, addressing key issues such as access to and control over resources, representation in decision-making positions, political participation, regional development, human security, and material and cultural well-being. The purpose is to promote extensive, policy-relevant dialogue on gender equality issues in terms of current realities and future challenges and in the context of climatic and environmental changes and economic and social development.

Themes and topics will be divided into the following plenaries:

  • Gender Equality and the Arctic: Current Realities, Future Challenges
  • Political Representation and Participation in Decision-making: Gendered Dimensions
  • Regional Socio-Economic Development and its Gendered Impacts
  • Climate and Environmental Change, Natural Resource Development, and Gender
  • Human Security: Gendered Aspects
  • Human Capital and Gender: Migration, Mobility, Education and Adaptation
  • (Re-)Construction of Gender in the Arctic

Sessions will consist of three brief presentations in addition to panelist contributions with questions and answers.

Speakers:
Information concerning confirmed speakers and panelists can be found on the conference page.

Early Bird Registration:
Early bird registration of 150 USD for the full program and conference dinner until 5 October 2014.

The conference is sponsored by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, the Icelandic Government’s Equality Action Fund, the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Nordic Cooperation Committee and the Nordic Council of Ministers for Gender Equality (MR-JÄM).