As a woman peacebuilder, Sameena Imtiaz has seen many organizations overlook the key role women play in creating a peaceful society. Many organizations, if they focus on women at all, tend to only argue for women’s inclusion based on their right to do so. Ms. Imtiaz takes this a step further and encourages women to […]
Journalist and documentary filmmaker Naziha Ali talks about how women can get their message across to male decision makers in Pakistan.
As a trainer with PAIMAN, a non-governmental organization focused on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and empowering marginalized Pakistani groups, Bushra Hyder has worked with university students in Khyber Pukhtunkwa Province, which is very volatile based on its proximity to Afghanistan. Over the course of a few days, she was able to form a bond with extremist […]
Naziha Ali, a journalist and documentary filmmaker in Pakistan, spoke with Inclusive Security in 2011 about the effects that media organizations have on extremism in her country. She explained that as long as the media promote so many stories of violence, it will be difficult for Pakistan to find a peaceful future.
In 2011 Inclusive Security sat down in Lahore, Pakistan with Bushra Hyder, a peace educator who lives in the volitile region along the Afghanistan border, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). Since her school is located across the street from the local hospital, she has seen the full impact of violence on her society. Here she relates the […]
As a teacher and a peace activist, Bushra Hyder felt she was doing her part in peacebuilding by being an educator. But, when the bomb blasts in her region became more regular, she realized she needed to do something in her schools to combat the depression that had infiltrated her community. Based on a suggestion […]
Everyday, Bushra Hyder works with youth as the director of a peace school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), the volatile Pakistani region along the border of Afghanistan. In an interview in 2011, she talks about how she has found it advantagous to be a woman working for peace in Pakistan due to the culture of respect […]
In 2011, Inclusive Security interviewed Bushra Hyder about her work with students in Pakistan. After extremism began to effect every aspect of her community, she formed peace clubs for students to help people who had been affected by bomb blasts. This gave her students and their families the ability to help children who were directly […]
In 1976 as a student in university, a newlywed, and a woman with a baby on the way, Stella Sabiiti was kidnapped from her dorm room by rebels in her native Uganda. They tortured her for hours, until she could take no more. She began to search for the only commonality she could find between […]
In January 2012, at an event hosted by USIP, Mr. Jacevic and Women Waging Peace Network member Mossarat Qadeem, Executive Director of PAIMAN Trust in Pakistan, spoke about the work The Institute for Inclusive Security is doing with a coalition of women of women peacebuilders in Pakistan.
