UN experience with Women Peace and Security assignment in Mali – SDG #5 Gender Equality – Marie-Therese Atsena-Abogo

Marie Therese Atsena Abogo, Ph.D. is an Anthropologist, Consultant, and Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences. In this presentation, Marie-Therese discusses her fieldwork experience with the UN Mission in Mali.

Video recording from the March 7, 2023 SDG Week Canada at Douglas College World Café presentation: http://api.ca.kaltura.com/tiny/i3ceq

PowerPoint presentation

BIBLIOGRAPHY- CONFERENCE ON UN EXPERIENCE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF WPS AGENDA/SDG-5 (MARIE-THERESE ABOGO)

1.Mali and the Djenne Mosque 

https://www.britannica.com/place/Mali

2.Mopti and its Arts Center or “village artisanal” 

https://minusma.unmissions.org/mopti-les-populations-et-la-minusma-poursuivent-leurs-%C3%A9changes

3. University of Timbuktu and Sankore Mosque

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/institutions-global-african-history/sankore-mosque-and-university-c-1100/#:~:text=Sankore%20Mosque%20and%20University%20is,region%20of%20modern%2Dday%20Mali.

4. Dogon knowledge of Sirius star in Nasa Astrophysics journal

https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1977Obs….97…26P

5.Sirius star in Modern Science

6. The Gender Unit in the UNPeacekeeping Mission in Mali

https://minusma.unmissions.org/en/mandate-gender-unit

7. UN Resolution 1325

https://peacemaker.un.org/node/105


8.  UN Resolutions 1325 and 1820: constructing gender in armed conflict and international humanitarian law

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/files/other/irrc-877-barrow.pdf

9. Jennie Lorenzen. 2018. Women Inclusion in Peace processes (CSA) in Mali

https://www.thebrokeronline.eu/women-s-inclusion-in-the-peace-process-in-mali/

10.Women participation in Peace and Reconciliation processes in Mali (report of Peace research insitute of Oslo)

https://gps.prio.org/utility/DownloadFile.ashx?id=1166&type=publicationfile

11. Women situation rooms in Mali: An address and welcome of Ms Martha Pobee, UN Under Secretary General for Africa

https://peacekeeping.un.org/fr/le-vestibule-de-veille-pour-les-femmes-et-les-filles-accueille-la-sous-secretaire-generale-de-lonu

12. Women situations rooms in Mali: an opportunity for women participation in electoral processes

https://maliactu.net/projet-vestibule-de-veille-des-femmes-et-des-filles-une-aubaine-pour-assurer-la-participation-des-femmes-aux-processus-electoraux-au-mali/

13.Jennie Lorenzen, Nana Alassane Toure and Bassirou Gay (2019). “Women’s Participation in Peace and Reconciliation Processes in Mali : Perspectives from Segou, Mopti and Tombouctou”. Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO).

https://gps.prio.org/utility/DownloadFile.ashx?id=1166&type=publicationfile

Sustainable Development Goals Canada at Douglas College

Karen Atwal, Steven Bishop, Katharine Shipley, Colin Cheng, and Janice Sestan

A small group of organizers with a lot of supporters help the first UN SDG Week Canada event at Douglas College yesterday. The World Café featured short talks and dialogue from the following instructors who have incorporated UN SDGs into their curriculum:

Assembling with Purpose – Electronics and General Assembly program’s partnership with Purpose Society’s Digital Inclusion Hub. – Karen Atwal
Urban Orienteering
– Multiple SDGs – Jovian Radeshwar
Global Citizenship, COIL and SDGs– Janice Sestan
Indigenous Peoples and the Sustainable Development Goals – Dr. Carling Beninger
UN experience with Women Peace and Security assignment in Mal
i – SDG #5 Gender Equality – Marie-Therese Atsena-Abogo
Chemical Oceanography and Saving Howe Sound – SDG #7 – Brenda Addison-Jones

Introduction: http://api.ca.kaltura.com/tiny/tax8x

For the full week program, related Douglas College and SDG resources, upcoming events and more, see:

https://padlet.com/bishops21/sdg-week-canada-at-douglas-college-i8wyrbgi9wif5ceu