Waging Peace: Using Women to Fight Extremism
This article was originally published by Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
The Institute for Inclusive Security’s (IIS) annual conference, “Policy Forum 2010: Women Moderating Extremism,” held Jan. 19 at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC, included a lunch for nearly 500 professionals involved in peace and security issues. Government representatives from the U.S. and other countries, non-government organizations, private contractors, and academia listened to this year’s participants discuss the challenges and victories they’ve had as prominent leaders in their own nations.
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