Sunday, March 08, 2009

International Women's Day 2009

UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA, FAIRBANKS, USA
(Taken from the 'Women at the Top' blog)


On Friday, March 6, 2009, Dame Julia Morton-Marr connected with us, LIVE online from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The recording of Julia's presentation is available at the following URL. (The recording is a large file, so may take a long time to open if you have a slow internet connection.)


http://elive.uaf.edu/play_recording.html?recordingId=1233801250389_1236356393988

Julia spoke about the history of women's peace, justice, environmental, and global sustainability work, as well as initiatives that we can join today!
Check out these links to Julia's work, and to the information and projects she shared:

International Holistic Tourism Education Centre - IHTEC http://www.ihtec.org/

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace http://www.vowpeace.org/

Science for Peace http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/

PeaceWomen Across the Globe http://www.1000peacewomen.org/


AND, for those interested in the upcoming World Water Day, March 22nd 2009, http://www.worldwaterday.org/ check out the SUPER resources below.

Global Issues Project - Papers from 2008 Roundtable on Water
http://www.ihtec.org/index.php?id=214

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development - IHTEC Watershed Peace Pathways Special Edition on Water
http://www.cafeweltgeist.org/ihtec/GIPWaterRT/WaterEdition-76pg-26Nov08-medres.pdf

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the link to the recording, Julia is a very good speaker and her presentation was quite interesting. I'll be watching her work. I also came across her presentation 1000 Women for Peace : Nobel Peace Prize Nomination which was very very good. I recommend it to everyone.

Take care, Jay