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Speak in a Language They Can Hear
Marie St. Fleur, of the Institute for Inclusive Security’s Women Waging Peace Network, offers advice to women wanting to change the world through civil society and government. She describes a program developed in Massachusetts to honor the survivors of homicide victims as well as a peace curriculum to be taught in schools across the country.
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Rebuilding Community through Several Identities
Thrust into a male-dominated job with a great amount of power, Nesreen Berwari, took a year off to learn how better to serve the people of Iraq at Harvard’s Kennedy School. She was able to take what she learned to succeed in her work through the connections she made in her studies.
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Penetrate the Minds of the People
Eti Livni describes how she was able to influence social issues in Israel despite opposition.
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Policy Forum 2007
The Eighth Annual Policy Forum was part of a two-week conference hosted by the Institute for Inclusive Security in Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC for women government leaders from the conflict and post-conflict countries listed above. These women have overcome tremendous odds to become credible leaders, and each faces distinct social and political obstacles to […]
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Rwandan Women Speak
Rwanda has the largest female majority representation in parliament. The Institute for Inclusive Security sat down with some of Rwanda’s most powerful leaders and members of our Women Waging Peace Network to better understand their work. Judith Kanakuze, Joy Mukanyange, and Odette Nyiramilimo discuss leading in a country where women are traditionally taught to remain silent when […]
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Risking Peace
Brig. Gen. Israela Oron speaks about the importance of women being involved in peace negotiations at an event in January 2008 at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in participation with Inclusive Security’s annual Colloquium.
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Women and Peace Negotiations in Darfur
At the 2010 Policy Forum for the Institute for Inclusive Security, Canadian Senator Mobina Jaffer participates in a conversation with women leaders from Lebanon, Pakistan, Bosnia, and Rwanda. She spoke on women as a moderating force in negotiations over the conflict in Sudan.
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Time for Women to Call the Shots
This article was originally published by Global Post. Ten years ago, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security. In short, “1325” (as the international law is known among advocates) seeks to elevate the decision-making of women in war zones and protect women during armed conflict. This month, as […]
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Give Women Peacekeepers a Chance
This article was originally published by IRIN. The consensus was “could do better” as senior government representatives met in New York to commemorate UN Security Council Resolution 1325, a decade-old commitment to strengthen the role of women in peace and security. … “We have made some progress but not as much as we would have […]
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Moderate Saudi Women Push Back Against Terrorist Groups
This article was originally published by MinnPost. Haylah Al Qusayir could keep a secret, hated Saudi security forces and ran a lucrative cash flow operation for Al Qaeda, sending it more than $293,000 from women who thought their jewelry and savings were supporting poor Muslim orphans. So when the 36-year-old widow was arrested in March […]
