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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. […]
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The Key to Winning the War on Terror: Women
This article was originally published by Big Think. With next year marking ten years since the term “War on Terror” was coined, the controversial war has seen its strides and pitfalls, depending on whom you ask. But as the battle against global terrorism enters its second decade, its ultimate outcome could hinge on winning the […]
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Where Were the Women at the Health-Care Summit?
This article was originally published by The Daily Beast. Much has been made about how little agreement and goodwill emerged from the recent health-care summit. And perhaps that was to be expected. But something struck me before any of the opening statements were read or the debate got under way: Where were all the women? […]
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Dan Rather Reports: A Conversation on Women, Peace, & Politics
Former US Ambassador to Austria Swanee Hunt and women from Lebanon, Pakistan, Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina talk with Dan Rather in this very special program. Rather moderates two panel discussions with women leaders — the first with women from countries recovering from genocide, and the second from countries with ongoing conflict. Joining both panels […]
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Dan Rather Reports: ‘Can Women Stop War?’
This article was originally published by Enough Project. The Institute for Inclusive Security recently wrapped up its annual conference that brings some of the women in the organization’s impressive global network together face-to-face to discuss the challenges and victories they’ve had as prominent leaders in their own countries. This year’s participants came from Rwanda, Pakistan, […]
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Gender Issues Must Move to Heart of Davos Agenda
This article was originally published by Women’s eNews. Many of the world’s most powerful leaders are now gathering in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum, which starts today and ends Jan. 31. For years, the gathering was almost exclusively male and its discussions lacked consideration of the gender angle. But change is more […]
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An Effective Weapon in the War on Terror: Women
This article was originally published by Global Post. A 16-year-old boy from a small village in the Khyber Agency near Peshawar answered the Taliban’s call and the militants set about grooming him to be a suicide bomber. He underwent a rigorous indoctrination and was trained to “accept martyrdom,” to borrow the language used by the […]
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Pakistani Women Work for Peace Amid Violence
This article was originally published by The Boston Globe. Last month in Lahore, Pakistan, a court ordered the noses and ears of two brothers cut off after they were convicted of doing the same thing to Fazeelat Bibi, a 21 year-old woman who had declined a marriage proposal from one of them. Although few believe […]
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Civil Society Now: Darfuris Gather in Doha
This article was originally published by Save Darfur/United to End Genocide. This week, the African Union/United Nations Chief Mediator Djibril Bassolé will begin consultations with 150 Darfuri civil society representatives in Doha, Qatar. Rather than focusing on this important gathering though, the media over the weekend strangely focused on the postponement of negotiations between the […]
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Quotes of the Week
This article was originally published by Enough Project. Speaking last week at a panel discussion hosted by the Nobel Women’s Initiative in Washington, D.C., Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai discussed prospects for peace in Sudan and had these wise words on the future of a credible peace process in Darfur and throughout the country: “It is […]
