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.”
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.
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.
Eti Livni describes how she was able to influence social issues in Israel despite opposition.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
As a filmmaker and peace activist from Kashmir, Ashima Kaul has seen her fair share of resistance to women’s involvement in peace and security. Here she provides an elemental reason for including all stakeholders in the peace process. As a member of the Institute for Inclusive Security’s Women Waging Peace Network, Ms. Kaul’s insights and […]
In February 2009, the director of the Institute for Inclusive Security, Carla Koppell, spoke with United States Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson about the role of women in peace building throughout the world. Rep. Johnson posed the questions, “Does The Institute work with the UN and other international organizations?” and “Is the UN doing all that […]
