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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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Women Take Lead Toward Mideast Peace
This article was originally published by Common Ground News Service. While it’s encouraging that two women—Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni—were key players in the Annapolis conference last week, the fact that women are central in the negotiations will only have an impact if the subsequent talks are structured to […]
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Darfur Negotiations
This article was originally published by The Washington Times. Negotiations around Darfur get underway this week. To succeed mediators must build on past successes and learn from past mistakes. Otherwise, Sudan will risk a return to broader conflict. A few key lessons should guide the way that the United Nations and African Union handle the […]
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Inclusive Peacemaking
This article was originally published by The New York Times. Last month in Sudan I worked with Darfuri women leaders to prepare for peace negotiations set to take place in Libya later this month. They defined priorities and next steps, and committed to continued collaboration and communication. Although they represented a wide variety of ethnicities […]
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Who Belongs at Darfur Talks?
This article was originally published by The Christian Science Monitor. Last month, an unknown group killed 10 African Union peacekeepers in Darfur. Some think whoever did it was trying to get an upper hand at the peace talks scheduled to begin this week. The attack calls into question the approach often used to resolve conflict.As […]
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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 […]
