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As an area of emphasis for Iceland, gender equality was included as one of the priority issues of its Arctic Council Chairmanship program in 2019-2021. Gender Equality in the Arctic (GEA), dating back to 2013, is an international collaborative project intended to raise visibility and understanding of diverse gender topics in the region. A major component of Gender Equality in the Arctic Phase III (GEAIII), launched in 2019, has been the development of a pan-Arctic report to identify priorities and concrete strategies to increase diversity and gender balance in policy- and decision-making processes. Please join us for the virtual launch event on the Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality in the Arctic, hosted by the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute with Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, The Icelandic Arctic Council Chairmanship, Norðurslóðanet Íslands / Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network, the Stefansson Arctic Institute, the Directorate of Equality (Jafnréttisstofa), and the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth. The report provides an overview of gender-related issues in the Arctic, including Law & Governance; Security; Gender and Environment; Migration and Mobility; Indigeneity, Gender, Violence, and Reconciliation; and Empowerment and Fate Control. The launch event will reflect extensive collaboration between the Arctic Council’s Chairmanship, Sustainable Development Working Group, its Social, Economic and Cultural Expert Group (SECEG), project partners, editorial committee, Indigenous peoples’ associations and experts, Youth Advisory Group, lead authors, contributing authors, reviewers and youth reviewers in the production of the GEAIII report.
Agenda:
Welcoming by Michael Sfraga, Director, Polar Institute // Director, Global Risk and Resilience Program
Key-note: Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development Cooperation, Iceland; Chair of the Arctic Council
Moderator: Embla Eir Oddsdóttir, Director, Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network (IACN)
Speakers:
- Marya Rozanova-Smith, Former Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution; Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University;
- Andrey Petrov, ARCTICenter Director and Associate Professor of Geography, University of Northern Iowa;
- Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek, Project Coordinator, UiT Arctic University of Norway; Co-lead “Women of the Arctic”;
- Tahnee Lisa Prior, Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University; Co-lead “Women of the Arctic”;
- Jennifer Spence, Executive Secretary, Sustainable Development Working Group, Arctic Council.
Panelists:
- Hjalti Ómar Ágústsson, Project Manager, Gender Equality in the Arctic Project, Phase III; Special Advisor, Directorate for Equality in Iceland;
- Gunhild Hoogensen Gjörv, Research Professor, The Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway;
- Friðrik Jónsson, Director General for GRÓ, Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainability and Societal Change; Iceland‘s Senior Arctic Official to the Arctic Council;
- Bridget Larocque, Policy Advisor and Researcher, Arctic Athabaskan Council;
- Laurel Katchatag, Arctic Youth Ambassador
- Tonje Margrete Winsnes Johansen, Adviser, Arctic and Environmental Unit, Saami Council
For more information on Gender Equality in the Arctic project, please visit: https://arcticgenderequality.network/
See you soon!
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