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SUDAN: Nobel Laureates Demand Women Be Part of Peace Talks
This article was originally published by Inter Press Service. The international community must act immediately to resolve the political and humanitarian crises facing Sudan, said a panel of leading Sudan experts at a briefing here Tuesday, and ensure that any peace process formally include women’s input. “We were heartened by the Qatar process, and the […]
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Women Parliamentarians: Caucusing for Equality and Effectiveness
This article was originally published by Governance Village. Last week, as a group of eleven women passed through security at a federal building in Washington, DC, a security guard asked where the group was from. “Sudan,” one of them answered. “Where are the men?” he followed-up. After a brief pause, one replied, “At home, fighting […]
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Inclusive Security: The Importance of Women’s Leadership in Conflict Resolution
At the Club of Madrid’s 2008 conference on Global Leadership for Shared Societies, Ambassador Swanee Hunt, chair of the Institute for Inclusive Security, conducted interviews with 15 Club of Madrid members on the importance of women’s leadership in politics and peace processes.
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“Nothing About Us Without Us”: Women and Peacemaking
This article was originally published by Enough Project. The innovative Institute for Inclusive Security, which includes the equally impressive Women Waging Peace Network, hosted its tenth annual Policy Forum today in Washington. The forum marked the end of a colloquium that brought together 21 women leaders from 12 conflict and post-conflict areas around the world, […]
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Looking to Rwanda for Lessons on Gender Equality
This article was originally published by The Huffington Post. The 2003 Rwandan Constitution included a quota providing for 30% reserved seats for women in all decision making bodies. In 2008 women filled the 30% quota and then gained another 26% of the seats in the legislature via the political party ballot, for a total of […]
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“Policy Placement” and Iraq: Women in Combat
This article was originally published by Huffington Post. Although the importance of women in national security is impossible to quantify, anecdotes like Team Lioness suggest that perhaps women bring an additional perspective to a situation — one that sees the extra value in social networks and relationships, one that empathizes with the human need to […]
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Eight Courageous Women Who Are Making You Safer
This article was originally published by Foreign Policy. This morning, I attended the 2nd Annual International Woman of Courage Awards, presented by Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky in honor of Saturday’s International Women’s Day. Out of the 95 women worldwide who received the honor, eight were invited to personally accept the award […]
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Women of the World
This article was originally published by The Boston Globe. Swanee Hunt moderates a discussion at Harvard tonight called “Engendering Peace: Security Through an Inclusive Lens.” The panel will feature women working for peace who hail from Colombia, Haiti, Israel, Palestine, Liberia, and Afghanistan. Hunt also her own opinions on the topic. She’s not only the […]
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Liberian Women Battle to Bridge Generation Gap
This article was originally published by Voice of America. During the civil war that raged for 14 years in Liberia until a peace agreement between rebels and government forces was sealed in 2003, the country’s education system crumbled to the point of non-existence. Most young people were forced to abandon their classrooms to participate in […]
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Our Strength Comes From Our Bitter Past, Liberian Women Say
This article was originally published by Voice of America. “We can’t forget our past, because its taste is still bitter in our mouths,” says Leymah Gbowee, one of Liberia’s most prominent human rights activists, who remains at the forefront of efforts to ensure that women occupy increasingly prominent positions in her society. Gbowee is the […]
