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Building Peace Huts
In 2006, The Institute for Inclusive Security arranged a meeting between two of our leading Women Waging Peace Network members. Though it was clear at the time that the Institute’s staff filmed this video that these women were doing amazing work to build peace in Liberia, to much of the rest of the world Leymah […]
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Support of This Network
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee has been a long-time member of the Women Waging Peace Network. With the help and support of Inclusive Security, Ms. Gbowee has expanded her work into different parts of West Africa including a protest in Cote D’Ivoire, which she describes here.
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Rural Women Peace and Security
Before winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, Leymah Gbowee of Liberia met for a lunch with some of the staff of Inclusive Security at our office in Cambridge, MA. Here she discusses her work getting rural women to take ownership of their safety by engaging with their local security committees.
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Afghan Women See an Opportunity at Bonn
This article was originally published by Huffington Post. On December 5, the international community will gather with Afghan leaders in Bonn, Germany’s picturesque Cold War-era capital, for the latest stock-taking of Afghanistan. While some are tempering expectations for the second major conference in Bonn in ten years, Afghan women leaders see an opportunity — and […]
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Politically Separate but Socially Together
Kamilia Ibrahim Kuku Kura is a long-time activist and community organizer from Sudan. She is the founder and executive director for the Nuba Women for Education and Development Association. Ms. Kuku is a long-time member of the Coaliton of Women Leaders, a group of more than 150 women working to increase the participation of women […]
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South Sudanese Women Struggle to Make Their Voices Heard
This article was originally published by PBS. Last May, a group of about 60 women, some in colorful African dress, others in modest Islamic garb, a few in Western-style suits, met in Juba, soon to be the capital of the new nation of South Sudan, to discuss their country’s constitution. Over a period of three […]
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Liberian Women Building their own Country
In 2009, the staff of The Institute for Inclusive Security traveled to Liberia to encourage women to run for office and help rebuild their country. Chair of the Institute, Swanee Hunt lead several training sessions on inspiring and creating a powerful political women’s movement in Liberia.
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Victims are Agents, excerpts from the book, “Worlds Apart”
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
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 […]
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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 […]
