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SUMMER SCHOOL ON HUMAN RIGHTS “STAND UP FOR WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS” 31.05 – 04.06.2016 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Theology
Brief biographies of speakers/moderators
SVANHVIT ADALSTEINSDOTTIR is an adviser with the Office of the Special representative of Women peace and security at NATO. She is an Icelandic national and has been with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Iceland since 1998, most recently at the Directorate for Development and the Iceland Crisis Response Unit. She was active in the last update of the Icelandic National Action Plan for implementations of UNCR 1325 and has recently been involved with updating the 1325 NATO/EAPC Action Plan on Women Peace and Security.
THE VENERABLE CHRISTINE ALLSOPP Christine was one of the first women to be ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1994. In 2005 she was the sixth woman to be appointed to the senior role of Archdeacon. She served on the Church of England’s General Synod, campaigning for legislation to allow women to be bishops. She is currently a member of the executive committee of the Anglican- Lutheran Society.
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LUCA BARATTO, is a Waldensian pastor. He works for the Communication service of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI). He is also responsible for the Radio programme “Culto evangelico” broadcasted by RadiounoRAI (www.cultoevangelico.rai.it).
REV BILL CAVE is a Church of England Prison Chaplain, with 20 years’ experience of different prison regimes and situations. He is currently the Manager of Religious Affairs at the Verne Immigration Centre on Portland in Dorset. He is the Vice-Chairman of IPCA Europe, the European Region of the International Prison Chaplains’ Association, and a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral.
W. COLE DURHAM, JR. is the Susa Young Gates University Professor of Law and Founding Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at the Brigham Young University Law School. He is President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies based in Milan, Italy, and a founding editor of the Oxford Journal for Law and Religion. He is the author (with Brett Scharffs) of Law and Religion: National, International and Comparative Perspectives (Wolters Kluwer 2010), and a co-editor of Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Deskbook (Brill, 2004), and many other books and articles.
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KATHERINE GILMOUR is the Violence Against Women Development Officer for the Church of Scotland. She has a policy, strategy and training background in frontline violence against women services and also works as a national policy and practice coordinator for Homeless Action Scotland. Her academic background is in human rights law, with a focus on women’s rights, and she has worked on women’s rights in Ireland and in India as well as in Scotland.
GÖRAN GUNNER is Associate Professor in Mission Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden and Researcher at Church of Sweden Research Unit, Uppsala. Dr. Gunner is also Senior Lecturer at Stockholm School of Theology, Stockholm, Sweden. His research areas include religious minority situations in the Middle East and issues related to human rights. He is also the editor of the Church of Sweden Research Series. Among his publications are An Unlikely Dilemma: Constructing a Partnership between Human Rights and Peace-Building (co- authored with Kjell-Åke Nordquist, 2011) and Genocide of Armenians: Through Swedish Eyes (2013). He is also co-editor of Lutheran Identity and Political Theology (2014), Justification in a Post-Christian Society (2014) and Comprehending Christian Zionism. Perspectives in Comparison (2014).
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Since 2008, KATRIN HATZINGER has been the Director of the representation of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in Brussels. She studied law at the University of Bielefeld, Germany where she specialised in public international and European law. Katrin is editor of the quarterly policy brief of the Brussels Office (EKD-Europa- Informationen). Moreover, she is a member of the Kammer für Migration und Integration des Rates der EKD (Chamber on Migration and Integration of the EKD Council) and secretary of the Working group on EU legislation of the Conference of European Churches (CEC). She is an Alumni of the MMF programme of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and active in the German Kirchentag-Movement.
DRA. MARTINA HEINRICHS, Bonn, Germany 1955, Roman Catholic, MA in Theology and Romanistics, since 1980 in the Netherlands; academic project leader Curriculum Feminist Theology, Catholic University of Nijmegen; study leader at subsequently two Protestant academies for the ecumenical women’s movement; currently programme director at the retreat centre of the Dominican Priory Huissen, the Netherlands; former Co-President of the Ecumenical Forum of European Christian Women, 2006 – 2014; since 2014 board member of IKETH, Interreligious Conference of European Women Theologians; since 2013 regional coordinator for Europe of the Fellowship of The Least Coin; Co-President of Religions for Peace (since 2013) and member of its European women’s network (since 2008).
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ANNA KARAMANOU, PH.D Political Association of Women, Vice-President Member of the European Parliament (1997-2004), member of the Bureau of the Socialist Group and Chairperson of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament. Gender equality and human rights activist. Graduate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, MSc and PhD (with honours) in Political Science and Public Administration. Member of the Greek Political Science Association. In 1999 she was awarded the prize for “Peace and Friendship A. IPEKCI”, for her contribution to the Greek-Turkish rapprochement.
DR. ELENI KASSELOURI-HATZIVASSILIADI (1968) is a Research and Studies Officer at the Greek National Center for Public Administration & Local Government and a lecturer at the Hellenic Open University (Master Program: Studies on Orthodox Theology). She collaborated with the Volos Academy for Theological Studies (2003-2011), the Departments of Psychology and Pedagogic of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2004- 2007) as a gender expert and the National Research Center on Gender Equality (2001-2004). She was the Vice-President of the European Society of Women in Theological Research (1999-2001), member of the steering groups of WCC programmess “Women’s Voices and Visions on Being Church” (2002-2006) and “Women in Church and Society” (2007- ). She was a member of the editorial board of the electronic bulletin lectio difficilior, www.lectio.unibe.ch (2000-2006) and a co-opted WCC staff in both, Porto Alegre (2006) and Busan General Assemblies (2013). Since 2014 she has been a member of two advisory groups of WCC on gender issues and human sexuality. She is married and mother of 3 children.
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MAG. ELIZABETA KITANOVIĆ is Executive Secretary for Human Rights of the Conference of European Churches in Brussels. She is working as a senior human rights advocate vis-à-vis International Organisations. She is editor of the Human Rights Training Manuel for European Churches and is editor and founder of the first European Churches Human Rights Library and the CSC Annual Reports 2007-2014. In 2009/2010 she was a member of the Advisory Panel of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and was again nominated for 2012/2014. Mag. Kitanović completed her studies in Theology and post- graduate studies in International Affairs of the Political Science Faculty in Belgrade. She graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Serbian Government. She is also finalising her PHD. Mag. Kitanović regularly gives lectures and presentations in the area of human rights and communications. She speaks English, French, Greek and Serbian.
TORSTEN MORITZ holds a Ph.D. in political sciences from the Free University Berlin and has broad research experience in Eastern and Central European transformation after 1989. Having been involved in the leadership of various pan-European Youth networks in the late 90ies, since 2002 is working for the Churches´ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) as executive secretary on EU policy and projects. He is, in this capacity, carrying out CCME´s advocacy work with the European Parliament and the European Commission as well as the Council of Europe and in the interregional global ecumenical network on migration of the World Council of Churches. He is active in conceptualising and implementing a variety of projects and initiatives, among other issues on migration and (co) development, trafficking in human beings, refugee resettlement and integration of third country nationals. He represents CCME in the Alliance expert coordination team of the OSCE´s Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Being.
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FULATA LUSUNGU MOYO, PhD Programme Executive World Council of Churches Just Community Of Women & Men Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School "What we need to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. (Dorothy Day).
Doctor in law, Barrister at the French Bar of Versailles, France, ANNE NÈGRE lectures at University Paris 1-Pantheon-Sorbonne. She is engaged in equality of rights between women/men. She participated as an activist on the modification of the French constitution on parity, the European constitution on equality between women and men and the place of women on company boards with the European Commission. She has led an INGO founded in 1919, present in 70 countries, dedicated to education and rights. Its regional group, the University Women of Europe has supported her candidacy in 2015 as the Gender Expert of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe where she was elected.
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AIKATERINI PEKRIDOU is research associate at the Institute for Missiology & the Study of Theologies beyond Europe, Catholic Faculty of Theology, and University of Münster, Germany. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. In the past she worked with the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, and served on the Churches in Dialogue Commission of the Conference of European Churches. Katerina is member of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies.
REV. PIRJO-LIISA PENTTINEN: MA Theol., ordained Evangelical-Lutheran, qualified in Adult Education and trained by Council of Europe on HR issues, intercultural learning and management, currently acting as National General Secretary (CEO) for YWCA Finland and Member of Board of Managers of the YWCA Hotel Company in a building declared to be “discrimination free zone”. Consultant on faith-related and ecumenical issues for World YWCA, representing YWCAs at UN Commission on Status of Women since 2007 and WYWCA delegate to World Council of Churches GAs. Served National Council of Women as Chair of the Election Committee and member of the Constitution Committee.
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DR PETER PETKOFF is a Law Lecturer at the Brunel Law School, London. He is also Director of the Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, a collaborative international research network at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and Managing Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. He is Legal Consultant on Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression for the Representative on Freedom of the Media at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a TEPSA (Trans European Policy Studies Association) consultant of the European Parliament as well as a consultant for the All Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief at the House of Lords.
THE REVD DR PATRICK ROGER SCHNABEL studied Divinity at Bethel College, Bielefeld, St Mary’s College, St Andrews (M.Theol. Hons., First Class) and Göttingen University, where he took his First Church Exam. He completed his theological education at Loccum Monastery with the Second Church Exam, and was ordained a Lutheran Pastor in the Church of Hanover. He studied European, Ecclesiastical and Church-State Law at Göttingen University and at Potsdam University, where he received the degree of a Doctor of both Laws (Dr. iur. utr.). He worked as Legal Advisor and Deputy Head of Office with the EKD representation in Brussels from 2007 – 2011, and is currently Head of the Church Development Service of the Protestant Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. He also continues to teach Ecclesiastical and Church-State-Law at Potsdam University, where he is a lecturer at the Protestant Institute for Ecclesiastical Law.
PAMELA SLOTTE, DR. THEOL., is an Academy research fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of
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Helsinki, Finland. She is adjunct professor of religion and law research (University of Helsinki) and adjunct professor of theological ethics and philosophy of religion (Åbo Akademi University). Among her newest publications is the co-edited volume Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
NATALLIA VASILEVICH, born in 1982 in Minsk, Belarus. Graduated from the Belarusian State University (Political Sciences, Law) and University of Bonn, Germany (Ecumenical Studies). M.A. in Political Sciences, Ecumenical Studies. Currently writing her PhD in theology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Bonn University on the topic of the social doctrine in the pre-conciliar process and documents of the Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church. She represents WSCF-E in CEC's Thematic Reference Group on human rights.
GEESJE WERKMAN has worked for more than 25 years in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands and since 2000 as the project manager for Refuges and Migration, (including also human trafficking, racism) at the diaconal office named Kerk in Actie. She works in the National office which has over 1700 local parishes. Recently they launched a collective complaint against the State, through CEC, on the issue of denying shelter, food and clothes to undocumented migrants, being a violation of human rights. They also were involved in large campaigns on (migrant) children rights for example “No child behind bars.” Ms Werkman is 64 years old, living and working in Utrecht, and studied at the Social Academy in the Netherlands.
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