DECOLONIAL ALTERNATIVES

This stream recognises that knowledge production is intertwined with a colonial, patriarchal and capitalist systems of global domination. This stream explores decoloniality to discover modes of knowledge production and being that exist outside of the current global systems of domination, with their inherent racism, sexism and poverty. Key of this is understanding decolonial feminist approaches and the potential that they offer in countering patriarchy and its forms of violence.  It is within the Decolonial Alternatives that we locate the Masibambisane ngokholo Programme and the Inclusive Theological Education Convening.

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Masibambisane Ngokholo GBVF Programme

The Masibambisane ngokholo GBVF Progamme is the Centre for Black Thought and African Studies' programme to address gender-based violence and femicide. The purpose of the dialogue is to use innovative community-based models on addressing GBVF by infusing a rights-based approach based on participation, accountability, non-discrimination, empowerment and legislation that protects rights of the vulnerable to create a platform for government, civil society and other relevant stakeholders to engage in dialogue about gender-based violence and femicide.

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Inclusive Theological Education Convening

The purpose of the workshop is to gather theological institutions and public universities from Southern Africa to reflect on models of inclusive curriculum in theological education. The convening brings together representative from senior academic staff – deans, rectors, curriculum developers, etc. - from theological institutions in southern Africa to explore a curriculum development framework within which individual institutions could develop their own curricular that are inclusive.