Ninth Annual Graduate School of Public & International Affairs
Third Annual Association of Women in Public Health (GSPH)
Student Conference

Transcending Boundaries: EnGendering Human Security

University of Pittsburgh

April 2 - 3, 2004

The Agora, an organization of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, in collaboration with the Association of Women in Public Health, a women’s organization of the Graduate School of Public Health, will bring together students, academics, practitioners and activists to discuss issues relevant to global human security.

• Conference Program (.pdf)

• Call for Papers (.pdf)

• Conference Schedule (.pdf)

Friday April 2, 2004

11:30 – 12:00                         Registration (University Club)

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.                    Keynote Luncheon- Theresa Loar (University Club)

2:15 – 2:50 p.m.                     Individual Panels

·         Ehaab Abdou, Fat’het Kheir  (3J12 Posvar Hall)

·         Faina Linkov, NIH funded Supercourse project (3N51 Posvar Hall)

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.                     Skill-building workshops

·         Linda Babcock, Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide (3J12 Posvar Hall)

·         Ron Porter, Fundamentals of Facilitation - What Every Facilitator Should Know (3S07 Posvar Hall)

4:35- 5:15 p.m.                       Refreshments (Registration area)

Weapons and the Destruction of the Masses (3J12 Posvar Hall)

Discussant: Daniel Simpson, Associate Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Whitney McIntyre: The Continued Presence of Landmines: A Bosnia-Herzegovina Case Study
• Andre Ashley, Janean Fazio, Mattias R. Fenton: India and Pakistan: What are the peacekeeping options?
• Mardann Olsen: The Viability of a Nonproliferation regime in the 21st century

Gearing Up for the Epidemic: HIV/AIDS Awareness Programming and Women’s Vulnerability Factors (3S07 Posvar Hall)

Discussant: Martha Terry, Senior Research Associate, Behavioral and Community Health Services, University of Pittsburgh

• Jaime Nguyen, MD, MS: Why Are Standard Prevention Messages Failing Disadvantaged Communities?
• Phi Huynh Do, MD: The HIV Epidemic & Human Trafficking in Asia
• Phamotse Ntleu: Food Security & the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Lesotho

Sustaining Life: Human Rights and Natural Resource (3N51 Posvar Hall)

Discussant: Paul Nelson, Director of International Development Division (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh

• Brant Hahn: Water’s Influence on Israel’s Territorial Expansion

• Nathan Shaffer: Indigenous Rights Confront Environmental Concerns

• Joy Braustein: On Security, Water, Rights and Life Altering Decisions: A Qualitative Study on Adult Female Immigrants from Israel

10:35 – 12:05 p.m.                  Human Security Roundtable (5J53 Posvar Hall)

·         Facing the Human Security Challenges of the 21^st Century Moderator: Dr. Silvia Borzutzky, Carnegie Mellon

o        Dr. Linda Christiansen-Ruffman, FAFIA

o        Dr. Gigi Kwik, Center for Biosecurity

o        Dr. Benoit Morel, Engineering and Public Policy, CMU

12:05 – 1:05 p.m.                   Lunch

1:05  – 2:00 p.m.                    Information Fair with local community organizations (registration area, 3^rd Floor Posvar Hall)             

   The Once and Future Plague: Africa’s HIV/AIDS Social Epidemic (3J12 Posvar Hall)

   Discussant: Buba Misawa, Professor of Political Science, Washington and Jefferson College

• Faith Brebnor: Ethnographic Evaluation of an HIV/AIDS Program in Tanzania, Africa

• William Strachan: AIDS as a Human Security Threat in Africa: The Economic Consequences

• James Ricci: Generic HIV Drugs for Sub-Saharan Africa: Corporate America versus National Security

    A Call to Peace: Global Intervention in Conflict and Genocide (3S07 Posvar Hall)

   Discussant: Simon Reich, Director of the Ford Institute for Human Security, University of Pittsburgh

• Ian Boyd: Towards Defining Intrastate Conflict

• Stephanie Mlynar: Somalia:  Conflict and Peace in a Stateless Geography

• Mardann Olsen: Genocide and the United States' Response in the 1990s

   Laws of the Lands: Fostering Gender Equality Amid Cultural Diversity (3N51 Posvar Hall)

   Discussant: Thomas Haase, Doctoral Student (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh

• Jacob Simon: A Theoretical Comparison of Gender Equity Law in the United States and China

• Leonora A. Kivuva: “Say No!” Empowering Widows in Rural Kenya to protect themselves against wife inheritance

• Laura Rosas: Health Disparities and Physician Bias:  The Potential Impact on the African-American Birth Experience

     New World Slavery: Child Labor and Human Trafficking (3J12 Posvar Hall)

     Discussant: Lance Hampton, Doctoral Student (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh

• Lisa Berardi: The New Slave Trade: Sex Trafficking as a Response to Economic Instability within East Europe

• Vera Achvarina: Child Labor in Asia: Does GDP per capita Matter?

• Martin Greenberg: A Citizen’s Role in the Prevention of Human Trafficking

  Women's Movement: Female Status in a Changing World (3S07 Posvar Hall)

  Discussant: Jennifer Baldwin, Graduate Student, University of Pittsburgh

• Dagmar Rudhrig: Gender-based Violence in Refugee Camps: The Situation of Bhutanese Refugee Women in Nepal

• Hanne Muller: Empowerment of Guatemalan Refugee Women

• Sambriddhi Kharel: Nepali Women in a Changing Economy

  Managing Violence and Conflict Through Civil Participation (3N51 Posvar Hall)

  Discussant: TBA

• Joshua Kivuva: Civil Society and the Management of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: The Role of Ethnic Based Associations in Kenya

• Sanaz Raji: NGO Advocacy at Home and Abroad: The Case Study of Iran and Iranian-Americans

• Peter Baofu: Terrorism and Civilization in the Coming Post-Democratic Age