In April 2011, The Insititute for Inclusive Security conducted a training with women peacebuilders in Pakistan. Ammara Durani spoke to staff about ways to combat the ideology of extremism beyond on the ground military actions.
In April 2011, The Insititute for Inclusive Security conducted a training with women peacebuilders in Pakistan. Ammara Durani spoke to the Institute staff about her work with parliamentarians to build a national consensus against terrorism in Pakistan.
At the Institute for Inclusive Security’s 2010 Policy Forum roundtable discussions, Humira Shahid urges diplomats and security forces to engage women in her country of Pakistan to bring about deeper change within the region.
This article was originally published by Global Post. A 16-year-old boy from a small village in the Khyber Agency near Peshawar answered the Taliban’s call and the militants set about grooming him to be a suicide bomber. He underwent a rigorous indoctrination and was trained to “accept martyrdom,” to borrow the language used by the […]
This article was originally published by The Boston Globe. Last month in Lahore, Pakistan, a court ordered the noses and ears of two brothers cut off after they were convicted of doing the same thing to Fazeelat Bibi, a 21 year-old woman who had declined a marriage proposal from one of them. Although few believe […]
These recommendations for leveraging women’s skills and expertise in seeking to moderate extremism were developed by Pakistani women experts convened by The Institute for Inclusive Security in January 2010.
