A study day on concepts of collective identity and community empowerment
April 9, 2019
The Institute of Women's Studies held, on Saturday 6/4/2019, a study day on concepts of collective identity and community empowerment. It targeted master's students from several programs at Birzeit and Bethlehem universities (the Master Program in Gender and Development Studies, Master Program in Community Psychology, and Master Program in Social Work). The study day aimed to promote conceptual and applied-practical knowledge related to concepts of community empowerment and collective identity to achieve social change. Facilitators and participants presented and discussed the roots of these concepts, their development, applications and transformations in the Palestinian context.