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The Need for a Critical Mass of Women Decisionmakers
Naomi Chazan, former Knesset member, describes the danger of mobilizing women at the grassroots but ignoring the need to get more women into positions of power.
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Gender is a Development Issue
Member of Parliament, Jemma Kumba, describes how women in Sudan worked to pass laws that called for equal participation of both genders. As a member of the Institute for Inclusive Security’s Women Waging Peace Network, Ms. Kumba’s expertise can be shared with and encouraged by other women peacebuilders around the world.
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For the Welfare of Humanity
While determined to stay in her country of Iraq through two wars, Hanaa Edwar chose to start an organization that worked to place a fully representative democracy during and after the transition of power. She describes how this is the only way for a government to “grow up.”
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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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