A Global Initiative for Celebrating Women’s Stories
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The Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics & Human Rights
The Oxford Initiative engages across academia, policy, and activism to explore global ethics and human rights with a focus on women’s lived experiences. Our two flagship projects are the Global Women's Narratives Project, which has university and nonprofit partnerships around the world, and the Oxford Workshops, short courses held at the University of Oxford on current issues across war and peace, trauma-sensitivity, women in politics, religion, health, human security, and conflict journalism, including experiential field components.
War & Peace Series: Apply for 24 - 29 March 2025
Our short courses draw on Oxford faculty from across disciplines and colleges, international faculty, and dedicated practitioners and policymakers. Our Fellows commit to co-teaching seminars and collaborating on new and existing projects. Our executive board, global advisory board, and teams of special advisors help oversee our workshops and the Global Women’s Narratives Project.
Announcements
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BROOKE BACIGAL TO BEIJING
Brooke Bacigal, manager of our editing teams at Oxford this past year, is heading on to complete a Masters degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing as a Schwarzman Scholar. Brooke has volunteered with GWNP since 2019 and has been an integral part of our work through her time at Oxford. Thank you, Brooke. Love and best wishes.
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NEW THEME: WOMEN IN POLITICS
To grasp the scope and depth of women's political engagement, it's essential to adopt a view that encompasses not only traditional political activities but also the challenges to authority through civil society initiatives, women's organizations, and mobilization for political objectives. The sacrifices and challenges faced by these women remain largely untold.
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MALIN: CONFLICT JOURNALISM PROJECT
Andrea Malin, an award-winning journalist and network television news documentary producer/writer for NBC News, ABC News, PBS, launches a new Conflict Journalism program to explore and address challenges women experience as journalists in conflict zones.
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RESONATE JOY PARTNERSHIP
Resonate Joy Nonprofit, an arm of the Optimum Joy private practice in Chicago, IL, USA, is partnering with the Global Women’s Narratives Project to provide trauma-informed training and therapeutic support. Trauma specialists lead sessions in Oxford training and will be joining the work in Northern Ireland in September. Welcome.
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KAROSANIDZE JOINS ADVISORY BOARD
Tamar Karosanidze joins our Advisory Board and hosts a project visit to Tbilisi, Georgia. Formerly Deputy Minister of Defence of Georgia, she is a Chief of Party (CoP) at the USAID-funded civil society support project Advancing CSO Capacities and Engaging Society for Sustainability (ACCESS) project. Welcome.
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TAFADAR LAUNCHES HR ORG FOR GIRLS
Advisory Board member Sultana Tafada launched an international organisation to inform and empower girls across the world on their rights. Tafada is a criminal barrister in the UK and was appointed King’s Counsel last year. GWNP founder Dr Boyd-Judson serves on the advisory board of Girls Human Rights Hub.
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GHANA: AINCRE MAAME-FOSUA EVANS
GWNP Team Editor, Aincre Evans, DPhil History (African History) University of Oxford, is organizing a 2025 GWNP team to interview women who were politically active in the 1990s and made significant contributions to women's rights movements and the creation of the Ghanaian women's manifesto in 2004.
Global Women’s Narratives Project
We believe in the power of storytelling.
Whether in conflict studies, medicine, religion, or global activism, women’s lived experiences are underrepresented and marginalized. We believe women’s narratives be used as mechanisms for inspiration and influence. Through our archival platform, we engage the personal and collective power of women’s lived experiences. We are creating a database of narratives that storytellers, policymakers, scholars, lawyers, health practitioners, and human rights advocates can use to affect change.
GWNP leader Thembela Lubimbi participates in Geneva Peace Week from Zimbabwe.
Dr. Evelyne Tauchnitz, Special Advisor to the Global Women’s Narratives Project from Oxford Global PeaceTech Project and Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics.
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Oxford September 2024
ALEXANDRA HOERR, CLAIR MILLER
The Oxford GWNP training September 2024. Alex and Clair—trauma specialists with Optimum Joy—lead our Duty Of Care sessions.
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Athens, Greece, 2022
GWNP DELEGATES AT REFUGEE CENTER
Field interviews in Greece were led by Ms. Manas Ghanem, UNHCR Protection Consultant, Fellow, Oxford Center for Resolution of Intractable Conflict.
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Oxford August 2022
MAUREEN SHONGE
Ms. Shonge, Oxford IHRL, leads session on Preventing Violence against Women in Elections and Implications for Peace in East and Southern Africa.
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Oxford September 2024
ANNE CARR
Anne Carr from Belfast, Northern Ireland, leads a session on women and peacebuilding groups in Northern Ireland, Israel, and Palestine.
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Wellesley College Albright Interns
HIRA KHAN, THAYER WILSON. WITH GRACE POWELL (WAKE FOREST)
Reception following a talk by Lord John Alderdice, Oxford. GWNP selects up to 20 summer interns to edit narratives and train editing teams at Oxford.
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Tbilisi, Georgia, 2021
LYN BOYD-JUDSON, TAMAR KAROSANIDZE
LB-J, chair of Oxford Initiative, with advisory board member Karosanidze, former Deputy Minister of Defence, and founder of Transparency International in Georgia.
