Syllabus for RLG 309F Religion and Human Rights (Fall Academic Session 2023)

Time & Location: Asynchronous Online

Instructor: Dr. E. Pontoriero, Ph.D.
https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/eleanor-pontoriero
Office Hours: By Appointment
Contact: [email protected]

This year, we will focus on religion, women, and human rights in a contemporary global context. Our approach will be
intersectional, cross-cultural, inter & intra-religious and inter-disciplinary. Our aim will be to include both theory and
practice. The theme of our exploration is the necessary connection between peace and justice.

We will begin with the development of key documents, issues, and models of the three inter-related goals of UN
Women addressing the human rights of women and girls North and South: 1) peace, 2) sustainable development, 3)
gender equity and empowerment. Issues examined will include: the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, sexual
orientation with gender; universalism and cultural relativism; genocide; moral and legal perspectives; rights and
responsibilities; the rights of racial, religious and sexual minorities; the role of culture and religion as both a pretext for
violence and as a basis for multi-lateral peacebuilding initiatives, both religious and secular, including local/grassroots
and global initiatives; the relationship of feminist liberation theologies with reconciliation and justice; inter- and intra-
religious dialogue; religious theories of peace and peacebuilding; VAW (violence against women); transitional justice;
gendered justice and narratives; religion, trauma, and healing; social justice, reconciliation and community-based
mindfulness; environmental justice; sexual and reproductive rights; the rights of the girl child. We will discuss Hindu,
Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, African, and North American Indigenous contexts, and perspectives. We will draw
on both academic and non-academic resources including UN Women, and women’s local/grassroots and global
initiatives.

Since the course is asynchronous this term, weekly course lectures and mindfulness practices will be recorded, and
posted on the Quercus course website Tuesdays by 11:59 PM ET. There will be an online Q & A format with Prof, as
well as an online discussion forum and discussion groups facilitated by the TAs each week. The weekly recorded
lectures will begin with the traditional land acknowledgment honoring our ongoing reconciliation with Indigenous
peoples. There will then be a PowerPoint presentation on the weekly topic and readings. There will also be an
opportunity to explore socially engaged mindfulness practices that support human rights work and peacebuilding.
These will include mindfulness of breathing, mindful listening, and speaking, as well as compassion and contemplative
practices drawing on both secular and interfaith sources.

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Course Readings:

Course readings are either a) posted on Quercus, RLG 309F course website or b) are available as links to electronic
resources (included in weekly schedule listings). Please see schedule for weekly readings and additional resources.

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Course readings include:

RR Required Readings
SR Supplementary Readings and Resources (posted on Quercus, or links provided in syllabus)
SD Supporting Documents
AV Audiovisual Resources

Community/Socially Engaged Mindfulness resources include (posted on Quercus):

“Chapter 5: The Five Mindfulness Trainings & The Path of Transformation,” from Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings:
EBSCOhost Ebooks

Dr. Rhonda V. Magee, “Community-Engaged Mindfulness and Social Justice: An Inquiry and Call to Action,” “Teaching
Mindfulness with Mindfulness of Race and Other Forms of Diversity,” “The Way of Color Insight: Understanding Race
and Law Effectively through Mindfulness-Based Color Insight Practices,” “Racial Suffering as Human Suffering,”
excerpts from “The Inner Work of Racial Justice,” “Reflecting on our Interconnectedness,” and “Justice begins with a
Breath.”

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Evaluation:

Four (4) Papers 90%

5-7 DS pages each, 250 words per page; Topics will be posted two weeks
prior to each due date, and based on RLG 309F guidelines, lectures, and readings.
Due dates: #1 (20%) October 3, #2 (25%) October 31, #3 (25%) November 21,
and #4 (20%) December 12.

N.B. Prof will mark all four (4) assignments.

Please note: “The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is strictly prohibited for all assignments and posts in
this course. This includes but is not limited to, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and open-source models that you have trained
and/or deployed yourself. You may not interact with, copy, paraphrase, or adapt any content from any generative AI
for the purpose of completing assignments/posts in this course. Assignments/posts/logs that do not comply with this
guideline will not receive a grade.”

Attendance and Informed Participation 10%

Students may participate in 1) the online discussion groups facilitated by TAs (see guidelines and schedule
posted on Quercus) and/or 2) the online discussion board (guidelines posted on Quercus) for the 10% allotted
for attendance and informed participation.

OR

Students may participate in the online weekly mindfulness logs (guidelines and recordings posted on Quercus)
for the 10% allotted for attendance and informed participation.

TA lead Saliha Chattoo: [email protected]

TA lead Carolyn Beard: [email protected]
TA Kainat Bashir: [email protected]
TA Amber Moore: [email protected]
TA Allison Murphy: [email protected]

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Schedule

Tuesday September 12 Introduction and Overview

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Tuesday September 19 The United Nations, Human Rights, Women North & South

Required Readings

RR#2A - Devaki Jain and Shubha Chakho, ‘UN, HR and Women North and South’ (posted on Quercus)
RR#2B - Hilary Charlesworth, ‘UN HR & Women’ (posted on Quercus)
RR#2C - Rights of Women Within Islamic Communities | Riffat Hassan (direct link)
RR#2D - Frances Raday, “UN, HR, Culture, Religion and Women” (posted on Quercus)
RR#2E – Arati Roy on “Chapter 18: Women, HR and Cultural difference” (posted on Quercus)
RR#2F – Ronit Irshai, “Judaism, Gender and Human Rights” (posted on Quercus)

Additional and Supplementary Resources – (additional ones are posted on Quercus)

Karen Mingst, et. al., “Chapter 6: UN & HR in the 21st century” link: Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete;
Hilary Charlesworth, “What are Women’s International Human Rights?” link: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania
Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999
Natan Lerner, “Chapter 3: Religious Human Rights under the UN” link:
Scholars Portal Books: Brill - Human Rights & Humanitarian Law 2006-2017;
Jocelyn Hellig, “Anti-Semitism and Human Rights” (posted on Quercus)
David Novak, “Chapter 2: Judaism and Human Rights” Oxford Scholarship Online Complete
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Chapter 3: Islam and Human Rights” Oxford Scholarship Online Complete
Tarushikha Sarvesh, et. al. “Dalit Women in History” Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women’s Issues
Arati Rao, link: Speaking/Seeking a Common Language: Women, the Hindu Right, and Human Rights in India
Arvind Sharma, Hinduism and Human Rights, chapters 1 and 2 and Appendix 2 Hindu Declaration of Human Rights, link:
Oxford Scholarship Online Complete;
Werner Menski, “Chapter 4: Hinduism and Human Rights” link: Oxford Scholarship Online Complete
Nancy Martin, “Rights, Roles and Reciprocity in Hindu Dharma” (posted on Quercus)
Frances Raday, “CEDAW, Women’s HR, & Religion and Culture” link: Gale OneFile: Contemporary Womens Issues
Laura Jenkins, “Chapter 2: Ambedkhar Buddhists link: Scholars Portal Books: De Gruyter - Pennsylvania 2019
Devaki Jain, “Indigenizing Feminism” (posted on Quercus)
Devaki Jain, “Women of the South: Engaging with the UN as a Diplomatic Manoeuvre” (posted on Quercus)
Devaki Jain, “The Evolution of Ideas: A Feminist’s Reflections on the Partnership with the UN System” (posted)
Devaki Jain, Close Encounters of Another Kind: Women and Development (2018) (selections chapters 9-A View from the
South, 12-Morals in Politics) Direct links: 1. Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA and Devaki Jain, Women, Development
and the UN: a sixty year quest for equality and justice. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005. 1. Women and
Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present.

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Tuesday September 26 UN Women & Human Rights: Key Documents and Issues

Required Readings

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RR#3A - Linda Sheryl Greene, “African American Women & the 4th UN World Conference” (posted on Quercus)
RR#3B- The United Nations Gender Architecture: A Room with a View” by Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin
(posted on Quercus)
RR#3C - Rashida Manjoo, “The Continuum of Violence against Women and Challenges” (posted on Quercus)
RR#3D Madhavi Sundar, “Chapter 17: Keeping Faith: Reconciling Women’s Human Rights and Religion” (CEDAW &
Muslim women) link: Oxford Scholarship Online Complete
RR#3E- Yvonne Haddad, “Chapter 4: Muslims, Human Rights, and Women’s Rights” (posted on Quercus)
RR#3F – Nura Taefi, “Intersectionality, International Human Rights Law and the Marginalization of the Girl Child”
(posted on Quercus)

Supporting Documents – excerpt from UN Women reports re: Sen’s development as freedom, human rights and
capabilities, Women and Sustainable Development Goals 2030, intersectionality of VAW CEDAW & CRC Joint
Recommendations re: harmful religious & cultural practices, UN Resolution 1325+.

Supplementary Readings

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, “Becoming UN Women: Realizing Rights and Gaining Global Recognition” (posted)
Bhushan Sharma, et. al. “Casteing Gender: Intersectional Oppression of Dalit Women” Gale OneFile: Contemporary
Womens Issues
Maria Pilar Aquino, Feminist theology and Globalization link: Oxford Handbooks Online Complete
Aisha K. Gill, “The Social and Cultural Implications of ‘Honor’-Based Violence,” (direct link): 1. Springer Law and
Criminology eBooks 2020 English/International
Filomena M. Critelli & Jane McPherson, “Women, Trauma, and Human Rights” (link): 1. Springer Behavioral Science and
Psychology eBooks 2019 English/International
Ruth Gaffney-Rhys (link) International Law and Child Marriage
Rashida Manjoo on women, culture, peace and justice (posted)
Nobel Laureate Malala Yousefzai & AV resources (posted)
UN CEDAW & CRC Joint Recommendations re: harmful religious & cultural practices; UN Women report re: addressing
intersectionality of VAW (posted)
Savitri W. E. Goonesekere The Indivisibility of Rights and Substantive Equality for Women
Savitri Goonesekere, “From Social Welfare to Human Rights for Girls – A Path to Achieving Gender Equality” (posted)
Clara Chapdelaine Feliciati, “Restorative Justice for the Girl Child in Post-Conflict Rwanda” (posted)
Hilary Charlesworth, “Feminist Reflections on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)” link: Brill Online Journals
Niamh Reilly, International Human Rights of Women
Morny Joy, ed. Explorations in women, rights, and religions
Marie A. Failinger and Susan J Stabile, Feminism, law and religion
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, “Chapter 3: Islam and Human Rights” link: Oxford Scholarship Online Complete
International Human Rights of Women (direct link): 1. Springer Law and Criminology eBooks 2020 English/International
(in this volume, please see Marsha A. Freeman, “CEDAW: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women”; “The Human Rights of Minority and Indigenous Women,” by Silvia Gagliardi ; “Sex
Trafficking and International Law,” by Heather Smith-Cannoy)
Black Trauma in the US and the Pursuit of Human Rights: A Brief History by Christopher St. Vil, Noelle M. St. Vil, link: 1.
Springer Behavioral Science and Psychology eBooks 2019 English/International

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Tuesday October 3 Gender and Reproductive Rights: Secular and Religious Views

Required Readings

RR#4A - Gloria Careaga Perez, “The Protection of LGBTI Rights: An Uncertain Look,” (posted on Quercus)
RR#4B - Gloria Careaga Perez, “Moral Panic and Gender” (posted on Quercus)

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RR#4C – Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey, “Chapter 1: Black Women’s Experience and Queer Black Women’s Lives” & “Chapter
7: Imago Dei, In the Image of God” link: Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles
RR#4D - Tina Beattie, “Whose Rights, Which Rights: The United Nations, the Vatican, Gender and Sexual
Reproductive Rights” (posted on Quercus)
RR#4E – Martha Christian Green, “Chapter 15: Christianity, Women and Human Rights” (posted on Quercus)

Supporting Documents – UN Report - Born Free and Equal: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Human Rights
Law & UN Report “Religion, Women’s Health and Rights”; Faith Based Women & SRHR report; Arrows
for Change on Politics of SRHR; UN reports re: addressing violence against LGBTIQ &
recommendations] (posted on Quercus)

Supplementary Readings

Multi faith Feminist LGBTIQ+ perspectives & AV resources (posted on Quercus)

Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey, et. al. “The Boston Declaration: A Prophetic Appeal to Christians of the United States”
link: Gale In Context: Canada
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, “Sexual Health and Women’s Rights”
AdaMaria Isasi-Diaz, Mujerista Theology: Latina Theology link Access content in Alexander Street Press
Frances S. Adeney, “Human Rights and Responsibilities: Christian Perspectives” (posted on Quercus)

Women’s Rights and Religious Law (direct link) 1. Scholars Portal Books: Taylor and Francis Routledge xxxx-2016 (in this
volume, please see Mary Ann Case, “Implications of the Vatican commitment to complementarity for the equality of
the sexes in public life,” Pnina Lahav “The Women of the Wall as a religious social movement and as a metaphor”)

International Human Rights of Women (direct link): 1. Springer Law and Criminology eBooks 2020 English/International
(in this volume, please see “Sexual Health and Sexual Rights,” by Susana T. Fried and Andrea Espinoza-Kim)

The Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: A Trauma-Informed and Human Rights Perspective by
Diane E. Elze in Trauma and Human Rights, eds. Lisa D. Butler, et. Al. 2019 (Direct link online: 1. Springer Behavioral
Science and Psychology eBooks 2019 English/International

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Tuesday October 10: Environmental Justice, Religion, and Women North and South

Required Readings

RR#5A - Faith for Earth: A Call for Action - UN Environment Programme (link)
RR#5B - Maite Nkoana-Mashabane “Thuto ya Batho” Teachings of the People: Women adapt to Climate Change (link)
RR#5C – Yamini Narayanan, “Chapter 27: Women’s Right to Sustainable Development: Integrating Religion and a
Rights-based Approach” (posted on Quercus)
RR#5D - Emma Tomalin, “Chapter 6: Gender, Religions, Development” (posted on Quercus)
RR#5E – Melanie L. Harris, “Ecowomanism: Black Women, Religion, and the Environment” (posted on Quercus)
RR#5F – Eleanor Pontoriero, “Teachings of the People: Environmental Justice, Religion and the Global South” (posted)

Supplementary and Additional Resources

Melanie L. Harris, Ecowomanism, Religion and Ecology

United Nations Environment Programme Faith for Earth Initiative at Yale University (link)
https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/letters/thich-nhat-hanhs-statement-on-climate-change-for-unfccc
Maricel Mena Lopez “Compassionate Care for All Creation: A Latina Perspective” (posted on Quercus)
Anna Halaloff and Matthew Clarke, “Sacred Places and Sustainable Development” (posted on Quercus)
Emma Tomalin, Shabaana Kidy, Jorg Haustein, “Religion and SDG goals” (posted on Quercus)

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Erika George, “The Challenge of Climate Change and the Contribution of African Women” (posted on Quercus)
Greta Thunberg, Climate (selections posted)

Tuesday October 17: Women, Peacebuilding, Transitional and Gender Justice – Local & Global

Required Readings

RR#6A - Elisabeth Porter, “Feminists Building Peace and Reconciliation: Beyond Post-conflict” (posted on Quercus)
RR#6B - Wendy Lambourne & Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon, “Engendering Transitional Justice: A Transformative
Approach to Building Peace and Attaining Human Rights for Women” (posted)
RR#6C – Elisabeth Porter, “Gendered Narratives: Stories and Silences in Transitional Justice” (posted on Quercus)
RR#6D - Elisabeth Porter, Women-of-Faith Peacebuilders (pp. 1-71) (posted on Quercus)
RR#6E - Nthabiseng Motsemme, Direct links online: Lived and embodied suffering and healing amongst mothers and
daughters in Chesterville Township, Kwazulu-Natal (pp. 87, 89) & The Mute Always Speak: On Women’s Silences at the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Supplementary Readings
N. Motsemme, Direct Link online: Gendered Experiences of Blackness in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Wendy Lamborne on Restorative Justice and Reconciliation (Direct Link online: Scholars Portal Books: Taylor and
Francis Routledge xxxx-2016).

Resources - 2015 UN Women Report: Christine Bell, “Text and Context: Evaluating Peace Agreements for their Gender
Perspective,” & UN Women 2018 Report on Women’s Meaningful Participation in Negotiating Peace.” (posted on
Quercus)

Supplementary Readings

Wendy Lamborne, “Restorative Justice and Reconciliation” link: Scholars Portal Books: Taylor and Francis Routledge
xxxx-2016).
Maria Pilar Aquino, “Chapter 45: Religious Peacebuilding” Scholars Portal Books: Wiley 2011
Ada Maria Isasi Diaz, "Reconciliation: An Intrinsic Element of Justice" (posted on Quercus)

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October 24 Women, Peacebuilding, Transitional and Gender Justice – Local & Global

Required Readings

RR#7A - Elisabeth Porter, Women-of-Faith Peacebuilders (pp. 72-151) (posted on Quercus)

RR#7B - “Women, Religion and Peacebuilding: Introduction & part 1” by K. Marshall & S. Hayward (posted on Quercus)
RR#7C – Ogega & Marshall, “Religion Women’s Peace Work w/conclusions” (posted on Quercus)
RR#7D – Ellenbogen, Jewish Women in Peacebuilding: Embracing Disagreement in the Pursuit of Shalom” (posted)
RR#7E – Prewitt, “Women, Religion, Trauma Healing: A Case in India.” (posted on Quercus)

AV and supplementary resources posted.

Supplementary Readings

Nancy Good and Julianne Funk, "Trauma in the Context of Peacebuilding," pp. 15-35 (posted on Quercus)
UN Women 2018 Report on Women’s Meaningful Participation in Negotiating Peace (posted on Quercus)
Additional supplementary readings posted.

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October 31 Cambodia – Buddhism – Healing - GV – Transitional Justice – Post-Conflict

Required Readings

RR#8A – Diane Sankey, “Recognition of Gendered Experiences of Harm at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia: The Promise and the Pitfalls” (posted on Quercus)
RR#8B - Inger Agger, “Calming the mind: Healing after mass atrocity in Cambodia” (posted on Quercus)
RR#8C – Beine Ye, “Truth and Reconciliation: Cambodian Women’s Hearings” (posted on Quercus)
RR#8D – Alexandra Kent, “Sheltered by Dhamma: Gender, Religion and Security in Cambodia” (posted on Quercus)
RR#8E – Kathyrin Poethig, “Moveable Peace: engaging the Transnational in Cambodia’s Dhammayietra” (posted on
Quercus)
RR#8F - Kassie Neou, “Buddhism, Human Rights, Women’s Rights and Democracy in Cambodia” (posted on Quercus)

Supporting Documents: 2015 UN report re: GBV under the Khmer Rouge & information platform (posted on Quercus)

Supplementary Readings

Kassie Neou, “Teaching Human Rights in Cambodia” (posted on Quercus)

Natalia Szablewskaa and Olga Juraszc, "Sexual and Gender-based Violence: The Case for Transformative Justice in
Cambodia" (posted on Quercus)
Buddhist Association of Nuns and Laywomen in Cambodia (ANLWC): Peacebuilding, Women and Sustainable
Development: Cambodia’s “Quiet Movement” (posted on Quercus)
Sallie B. King, “Chapter 5 “Human Rights” link: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook Package 2000-2013
and Socially engaged Buddhism
Keown, Daniel: Are there Human Rights in Buddhism? (chapter 2) The Oxford handbook of Buddhist ethics ;
Chand R. Sirimanne, “Buddhism and Gender” (selected pages on kamma & gender, practices, de-conditioning, and
healing] [AV resources: Agger, et. al, Justice and Healing in Cambodia, Transitional Justice, Testimonial therapy & local
peacebuilding. (Posted on Quercus)
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, “Chapter 42: Buddhist Perspectives on Human Rights” Scholars Portal Books: Wiley 2013
Sallie B. King and Christopher Queen, Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia

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November 7 Fall Break – No Class

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November 14 African Perspectives – Women, Human Rights, Peacebuilding

Required Readings

RR#9A – Adrien Katherine Wing, “International Human Rights and Black Women: Justice or Just Us?” (posted)
RR#9B– Anna Spain, “African Women Leaders and Peacebuilding” (posted on Quercus)
RR#9C – Julie Xuan Ouellet, “Women and Religion in Liberia's Peace and Reconciliation” (posted on Quercus)
RR#9D – Fareda Banda, “Gender, Religion and Human Rights in Africa” (link) 1. Scholars Portal Books: Taylor and
Francis Routledge xxxx-2016
RR#9E - Erika George, “The Challenge of Climate Change and the Contribution of African Women” (posted on Quercus)

Supporting Documents – TRC report Liberia GBV, supplementary readings & AV resources (posted on Quercus)

Supplementary Readings

S. Bawa, Women and the Human Rights Paradigm in the African Context (link )
N. Motsemme, Direct Link online: Gendered Experiences of Blackness in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Sidonia Angom, Women in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda 2018. (chapters 7 and 8) link: Springer
Earth and Environmental Science eBooks 2018 English/International
Leymah Gbowee, "When Women Stand Together" (posted on Quercus)
Wonshul Shin, "Mama, Keep Walking for Peace and Justice: Gender Violence and Liberian Mothers’ Interreligious Peace
Movement." (posted on Quercus)

Isabel Apawo Phiri, “Peacemaking and Reconciliation: The Contribution of African Indigenous Religious
Women in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa” (posted on Quercus)

Sidonia Angom, Women in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda 2018 (selections: chapters 7
and 8 Women and Peacebuilding) (posted on Quercus)
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, "Forgiveness is ‘the wrong word’: Empathic Repair and the Potential for Human Connection
in the Aftermath of Historical Trauma" (posted on Quercus)
Aili Mari Tripp, Women and Power in Post Conflict Africa (chapters on Uganda, Liberia). (posted on Quercus)

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November 21 Indigenous Perspectives – Women & Human Rights, Truth & Reconciliation

Required Readings

RR#10A - Rauna Kuokkan, “Gendered Violence and Politics in Indigenous Communities” (posted on Quercus)
RR#10B - Rauna Kuokkan, “Self-Determination and Indigenous Women’s Rights” (posted on Quercus)
RR#10C - Cynthia C. Wesley-Esquimaux “Trauma to Resilience: Notes on De Colonization” (posted on Quercus)
RR#10D – Mary Annette Pember, "Intergenerational Trauma: Understanding Natives’ Inherited Pain" (posted)
RR#10E – Winona LaDuke, “What is Sacred” (posted on Quercus)
RR#10F - Cindy Hanson, “Gender, Justice and Indian Residential School Claims Process” (posted on Quercus)

Supplementary Readings (posted on Quercus)

Winona LaDuke, "Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Futures"

2015 Truth and Reconciliation Report
The Survivors Speak, Principles of Truth and Reconciliation
Church Apologies, Calls to Action,
The Gatherings - Reconciliation Circle with Indigenous and non-Indigenous Women
Ronald Niezen, “Chapter 7: Indigenous Religions and Human Rights” Oxford Scholarship Online Complete
Rosemary Nagy, "Combatting Violence against Indigenous Women” (posted on Quercus)
Hilary N. Weaver, Enhancing Indigenous Well-Being: Applying Human Rights and Trauma-Informed Perspectives with
Native Americans link: 1. Springer Behavioral Science and Psychology eBooks 2019 English/International;

Supporting Documents and Resources (posted on Quercus)

Canadian TRC report; Elder Hazel Squakin: Residential School Survivor Personal Stories
International Indigenous Women’s Forum, Canadian Endorsement
UN Declaration of Indigenous Peoples
TRC Truth Native Women’s Association, Culturally Relevant Gender-Based Models of Reconciliation and Roberta Stout
and Sheryl Peters, Inter-generational Effects on Professional First Nations Women, Truth and Reconciliation Report
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Volume 1a (2019 Canada)

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November 28 Case Study - Religion, Women, Human Rights & Peacebuilding in BiH

Required Readings:

RR#11A – Jagoda Rosul-Gajic, "Women's Advocacy in Post-War Bosnia and Herzogovina and the Implementation of
UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security" (posted on Quercus)
RR#11B - Zilka Spahic Siljak, “Women Citizens and Believers as Agents of Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina”
RR#11C – ZSS, “Women, Religion and Peace leadership in BiH” (posted on Quercus)
RR#11D – Z. Spahic Siljak, "Merhametli Peace is Woman’s Peace in BiH” (posted on Quercus)
RR#11E – Z. Spahic-Siljak, “The Confluence of Islamic Feminism and Peacebuilding in BiH” (posted on Quercus)
RR#11F – Z. Spahic-Siljak, “Victims or survivors: Choosing Identity after Wartime Sexual Violence.” (posted on Quercus)
RR#11G - Janine Natalya Clark, "Transitional Justice as Recognition: An Analysis of the Women’s Court in Sarajevo"
(posted on Quercus)

Supporting Documents and AV Resources (posted on Quercus)

UN Women Report - Reparations-for-conflict-related-sexual-violence: Lessons from the Western Balkans

2015 UN Women report re: GV & BiH & Peace Strategies Report from Women’s Organizations in BiH”
''Trauma, Memory and Healing in the Balkans and Beyond”
UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Addressing GBV and Justice.
2015 & 2016 UN Women Reports on GBV & BiH: recommendations and reparations
Bridging the Religious-Secular Feminism Divide and Muslim-Christian inter-religious dialogue post conflict
Women’s Court of Sarajevo
Healing and Peacebuilding after War: Transforming Trauma in BiH.]

December 5 Women’s Faith Based NGOs: Grassroots Human Rights Activism and Peacebuilding

Required Readings:

RR#12A – Ouyporn Khuankaew, “Coming Back Home: The Awakening of a Feminist, Buddhist, Anti-Oppression
Peacebuilder” (posted on Quercus)
RR#12B – Ouyporn Khuankaew, “Listening to the World: Engagement with those who Suffer & International Women’s
Partnership for Peace and Justice” (posted on Quercus)
RR#12C – “Talking Environment [electronic resource]: Vandana Shiva in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo.”
link: Oxford Scholarship Online

Supplementary Readings (posted on Quercus)

Ouyporn Khuankaew, Kathryn L. Norsworthy & Duanghathai (Nuch) Buranajaroenkij, “Crossing Borders, Building
Bridges, and Swimming Upstream: Feminist Liberatory Work within South Thailand Communities in Conflict
Katherine Norsworthy and Ouyporn Khuankaew “Feminist Border Crossings: Our Transnational Partnership in Peace
and Justice Work.”

Sallie B. King, Mindfulness, Compassion and Skillful Means in Engaged Buddhism

Rhonda V. Magee, "Community-Engaged Mindfulness and Social Justice: An Inquiry and Call to Action"