Feminenza Conference
Humanity and Gender:
A Gathering of Vision in a Time of Change
Hosted by Feminenza with the support of UNESCO PEER Culture
of Peace Network for the Great Lakes Region, Africa
10-13 January
2006 in Nairobi, Kenya
Two-year
Programme in Kenya
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Conference Overview
Why focus on humanity and gender? Because the human race is at
a critical crossroads: On the one hand, a new global consciousness
is beginning to emerge, a feeling for one another that surpasses
race, creed or gender; a knowing that we are in truth brother and
sister. This arising feeling is calling for a different response
and responsibility about creating a global community in which the
values of respect, care and dignity due to each life, regardless
of gender, are integral to the fabric of every community. On the
other hand, there is a huge cry of desperation in nations around
the world as we search for new solutions to escalating poverty,
disease, war, terrorism, and environmental degradation ...
The proposition of the conference on Humanity and Gender is
that as a human race, we cannot address the problems of the world
without
addressing the issues, attitudes and behaviours that are a departure
from humanity, that still hold us back from becoming part of the
solution rather than continuing to be part of the problem. Within
this context, the gathering was an opportunity to share our
visions concerning the challenging issue of redefining and improving
the way men and women perceive and value each other. One gender
on its own cannot solve the problems of the world. The two genders
coming together to serve humanity itself may have a chance.
From within this four day process, we sought to discover some
of the ingredients that can support a new vision about what it
means to be a man or woman, and aimed to crystalise a vision of
a partnership between the genders: one that honours the strength,
richness and nobility that is inherent to both. The world and
we the human race urgently need peace and peace of mind. It is
our hope that this gathering will contribute towards that peace
and towards a better inheritance for the children of tomorrow.
A theme of the gathering was that each of us is an agent of
change and that whilst one can always point to changes that are
needed in the governance of any situation, something is calling
for an acceptance of responsibility at the personal level, that
is just as important if not more so than the collective level,
if we are to connect to the current of what is now possible for
humanity and gender.
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more about the Conference and some of the issues it covered.
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two year programme in Kenya.
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