http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jane_gabriel/csw_art_science_or_just_plain_politics Comments for "CSW: art, science or just plain politics? , " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jane_gabriel/csw_art_science_or_just_plain_politics <p> I&#39;ve just come out of a session called &#39;The Politics of Funding and Funding Politics&#39; hosted by the Women&#39;s Intercultural Network and the Coalition of Women from Asia and the Middle East. It started with two American speakers talking about selling ‘your product&#39;, ‘seducing the funder&#39;, grant writing tips and advice to us on telephone manners when speaking to funders. The talk was of funding being both an art and a science. The meeting ended with a woman from Somalia saying that it wasn&#39;t about either: it was about politics and that it was disheartening that American foreign policy had &quot;come down to the woman having the right to an abortion or not, that it&#39;s far more complex, has nothing to do with proposal writing and is all about race and politics&quot;. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jane_gabriel/csw_art_science_or_just_plain_politics" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jane_gabriel/csw_art_science_or_just_plain_politics">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jane_gabriel/csw_art_science_or_just_plain_politics#comment CSW 2008 CSW 2008 Jane Gabriel 5050 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:48:46 +0000 Jane Gabriel 35872 at http://www.opendemocracy.net