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The second annual Women and War Conference will be held Thursday, May 1 through Sunday, May 4, 2003 in San Marcos, Texas. The Women and War Conference is a national conference hosted by The Women’s Nation Collective.
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The mission of the Women’s Nation Collective is to promote dialogue, among truly diverse women activists and scholars regarding warfare, nationalism, and territorialism and the ways in which it impacts our communities while simultaneously challenging ourselves to deconstruct racism, classism, sexism, and homophobia within our own collective.
Women’s Nation recognizes war as a much broader phenomenon, and in the case of women one that does not necessarily recognize the territorial boundaries of national or tribal wars. For example, women and children are often already at war within the domestic sphere, and "people of color" or other minoritized communities are often under attack from the same nation/states that claim them as citizens.
We recognize economic warfare as a form of aggression as egregious as any armed attack. And although we promote peace, we recognize that peace is not the absence of violence, but a balance of power.
The primary function of the Women’s Nation Collective is to produce an annual international conference, The Women and War Conference, where women representing various regions, national and ethnic backgrounds, and political interests gather for four days of panels, workshops and dialogues on warfare - the ways in which women are particularly vulnerable, and the ways in which we as women can resist these attacks across what appear to be cultural divides.
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The conference is now free due to a generous donation from the Center of the Study of the Gift Economy
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