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Victims are Agents, excerpts from the book, “Worlds Apart”

Posted by on October 28, 2011

On October 25, 2011, Ambassador Swanee Hunt, and the filmmakers of the PBS documentary series “Women, War, and Peace” Abigail Disney, and Pamela Hogan, addressed lessons that could be gathered from the women in the Balkan peace process at a screening of “We came to Testify” at USIP in Washington, DC. Amb. Hunt served in […]

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Miraculous Things in Waging Peace

Posted by on October 24, 2011

On a recent trip to Islamabad, Pakistan, the team from Inclusive Security worked with a coalition of women to bring their message of peace to a wider audience. One coalition member, Huma Chughtai, explains why women are capable of playing a particularly key role in peacebuilding and relates her ideas to examples of the Institute’s […]

Palestinian-Israeli Women Lose a Voice for Peace

Posted by on September 21, 2011
Palestinian-Israeli Women Lose a Voice for Peace

This article was originally published by Women’s eNews. A Palestinian-Israeli women’s group that had been pushing for a two-state solution for Israel and the occupied territories can’t offer any comment on the Palestinian Authority’s push for statehood recognition at the United Nations this week. That’s because the group, International Women’s Commission for a Just and […]

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Gaining Proportional Representation

Posted by on September 1, 2011

In the Summer of 2011, Rima Nazzal spoke with the staff of the Institute for Inclusive Security about her influence in the process of gaining proportional representation for women in Palestinian Legislature.

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What Role Did Women Play in the Egyptian Revolution?

Posted by on June 22, 2011

Inclusive Security not only works to connect women leaders from around the world with other powerful peacemakers, but also raises the awareness of women’s presence at key historical events. In a series designed to document women’s contributions to the Egyptian Revolution in early 2011, the Institute’s staff sat down with Egyptian leaders to see a […]

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On the Role of Women in the Egyptian Revolution

Posted by on June 22, 2011

Inclusive Security not only connects women leaders from around the world with other powerful peace makers but also raises the awareness of women’s presence at key historical events. In a series designed to document women’s contributions to the Egyptian Revolution in early 2011, the Institute’s staff sat down with Egyptian leaders to get a gender perspective […]

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Women Building Peace in Nepal

Posted by on June 22, 2011

Sujata Thapa talks about how women in Nepal have worked together to get their needs put into the constitution so they can overcome their feeling of being second class citizens in their own country.

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Senator Jaffer Discusses Peace Process in Darfur

Posted by on June 20, 2011

Canadian Senator Mobina Jaffer, who was also her government’s Special Envoy to the Peace Process in Sudan, discusses what she learned from visiting women in camps for internally displaced persons in northern Darfur.

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Harassment Was the Order of Their Day

Posted by on April 28, 2011

At a meeting with the staff of the Institute for Inclusive Security in 2011, Leymah Gbowee discussed the issues she discovered as she analyzed the security sector in Ghana.

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Must Create a Counter Narrative

Posted by on April 28, 2011

In April 2011, The Insititute for Inclusive Security conducted a training with women peacebuilders in Pakistan. Ammara Durani spoke to staff about ways to combat the ideology of extremism beyond on the ground military actions.

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