Global Week

GLOBAL WEEK 2020

Seats at the Table: Women, Peace and Security recognizes the power of women as storytellers, activists, and strategists and honors the continued commitments to this work on the 20th anniversary of the UN Security Council's landmark resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.


We believe that understanding others’ perspectives is at the heart of meaningful engagement with conflict resolution and a key competency to global leadership. Understanding that the personal is political, Global Week 2020 will explore women's experiences, voices, and activism in the context of peace and security:

Women as storytellers. Balancing Narratives — Who has the power and access to construct narratives, particularly in armed conflicts? How have women been part of or pushed back from building these narratives? How have new communication tools changed how we understand and engage with conflict?

Women as activists. Building Belonging — How can we change the way we relate to conflict? How do we talk to people with differing perspectives and experiences? How do we create communities that hold space for competing narratives and perspectives?

Women as strategists. Gendered Experiences — What are the consequences of our deeply gendered experiences of the world? How does an intersectional lens change the way we experience conflict and peacemaking?

“Almost 20 years since the adoption of resolution 1325, we don’t just need to be at the peace table. It’s time to redesign the table.” ~Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, Chair of the Board of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict

Global Week 2020 will be a 4-day experience from Monday, January 6—Thursday, January 9, 2020.

During the week our all-school activities will take the shape of listening to keynote speakers and panels and participating in dynamic group workshops on the following topics:

MONDAY:
Womxn, Peace and Security: Defining Our Collective Narratives
Dr. Melissa I. M. Torres, Vice President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Gendering Conflict: Towards a Feminist Understanding of Peace & Conflict
Carly Fox, History Teacher, Castilleja School

TUESDAY:
Women with Voice: Critical Perspectives on Security from the Local to the Global
Lauren Bean Buitta, Founder and Executive Director, Girl Security
S. Leslie Ireland, Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis
Feker Kebere, Promotion and Resource Mobilization 
Moderated by Dr. Danielle Zach, Postdoctoral Fellow, City College of New York, CUNY

New Global Security and the Need for Understanding, Innovation, and Leadership
The Honorable Susan M. Gordon, Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence

COMMUNITY EVENING EVENT:
Engaging Security Challenges in the Twenty-first Century: The Role of Diversity, Representation, and Women's Empowerment

Liesl Gerntholtz, Deputy Executive Director for Programme, Human Rights Watch
The Honorable Susan M. Gordon, Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Moderated by Dr. Danielle Zach, Postdoctoral Fellow, City College of New York, CUNY

WEDNESDAY:
Show Me the Women: The Impact of Conflict on Women and their Role in Peace Making
Liesl Gerntholtz, Deputy Executive Director for Programme, Human Rights Watch

Alumnae Panel: Developing Peace through Gender Equality
Elizabeth Zumwalt Harmon ’08, Policy Analyst, Countering Transnational Organized Crime Policy, Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Headquarters
Bronte Kass ’14, Program Manager, Stanford University
Neelam Noorani ’91, Senior Human Rights Legal Consultant

THURSDAY:
Empowering Girls in National Security
Lauren Bean Buitta, Founder and Executive Director, Girl Security
Gina Bennett, Board Director, Girl Security
Erin Connolly, Associate Program Director, Girl Security

The Role of the U.S. in Global Security
Gina Bennett, Board Director, Girl Security

Please note that only some of these events are open to guests, please RSVP for selected events here.

Use the button below to download the Global Week 2020 Program which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.

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Everything we do in life, from tying your shoes to performing brain surgery, is learned. So education is as key to survival as food. Just as there should be equity and fairness in everybody having enough food to survive, there should be equity and fairness in education.

Download the booklet which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.

What will we think about both during the year and during Global Week?

Community Learning Opportunities and Conversations
Equity is a complicated topic because it includes questions of access and resource distribution that are driven by both social and cultural norms and economic factors. These norms and factors look different around the globe, and there are many competing points of view about rights and best practices in the field of education. Our theme is designed to help us understand what questions to ask when we are trying to understand what makes an educational experience equitable in a specific context.

Grade-Level Learning Opportunities and Conversations
Depending upon each classes’ grade-level theme and classroom projects and discussions, students will have different opportunities to learn more about both the terminology (i.e. access, resource distribution, social factors, cultural factors, economic factors) and the concepts we’ll be talking about during Global Week.

What will the keynote topics be during Global Week?
During the week our all-school activities will take the shape of listening to keynote speakers and panels and participating in dynamic group workshops on the following topics:

Download the booklet which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level. 

GW 2015 explores the history and future of cities. How do historians, anthropologists, urban planners, futurists, and bureaucrats think about cities? Begin your thinking about cities with our guiding questions and key concepts, and join us for a keynote arc moving from past to future.

Guiding questions: What has the role of the city been throughout history? How are decisions made in a city? How is community built and maintained in a city? What is the future of “the city”?

Key Concepts Cities Must Have: 
Water 
Justice 
Diversity
Sense of Identity tied to Place 

Keynote Arc: 
What is Urban? 
What is a City? 
The History of Cities 
The Future of Cities
The Megacity: Challenges and Opportunities  

Download the booklet which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.  

Thank you to everyone who engaged in Global Week 2014: Artists with a Cause. We were so pleased so share the week engaging with students, employees, and community members. All ages were seen getting down with New Style Motherlode, exploring the role of plastic in the world with One Beach Plastic, learning the beauty of graffiti art with Mural, Music and Arts Project, and much, much more. Here is a brief recap of some of the amazing projects the students were working on during the entirety of the week.

Middle School 
The 6th Grade worked with Daniel Barash, creating shadow puppet movies around a global issue of the students' choice. 7th Graders were inspired by speakers, movies and workshops focused on food justice, as well as a visit to the San Francisco Ferry Building. The 8th Grade interviewed elders from the Stevenson House and then wrote up their stories. The week culminated in an art project given to the elders to represent their life story.

Upper School 
The 9th Grade worked with presentation guru Michael Moon on their year-long interdisciplinary project. The 10th Grade students worked with entrepreneur Jess Munro to create and develop their own innovative solution to a global issue. We missed the 11th Grade on campus; however, they were off engaging with the global community on their Investigator trip in either China, India, Guatemala or France. The 12th Grade worked on three separate projects: a photographic essay, led by Amanda Jones, documentary films with MTV World's Raeshem Nijhon, and a school graffiti mural.

Elective Workshops 
All students had the opportunity to connect with local and global artists, as well as do hands-on work during their elective selections. Some beautified our campus in a student-led "graffiti moss" elective, others learned the art of plating with local social entrepreneur Kathleen Hughes of Ada's Café, while others learned about the art of merchandising when they designed a teen pendant for the American market to support the organization Made by Survivors.

Download the booklet which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.  

Youth Speaks officially kicked off Global Week 2013, "Social Change: Standing Up and Speaking Out". Youth Speaks is a non-profit, which empowers the next generation of leaders, self-defined artists, and visionary activists through written and oral literacies. They challenge youth to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of social change. 

During the week, students engaged in a variety of experiences. Week-long workshops focused on Grassroots Movements, Social Media and the Protestor, the Political Process, and Partnership in Action.

Download the booklet which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.