Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee has been a long-time member of the Women Waging Peace Network. With the help and support of Inclusive Security, Ms. Gbowee has expanded her work into different parts of West Africa including a protest in Cote D’Ivoire, which she describes here.
Before winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, Leymah Gbowee of Liberia met for a lunch with some of the staff of Inclusive Security at our office in Cambridge, MA. Here she discusses her work getting rural women to take ownership of their safety by engaging with their local security committees.
Kamilia Ibrahim Kuku Kura is a long-time activist and community organizer from Sudan. She is the founder and executive director for the Nuba Women for Education and Development Association. Ms. Kuku is a long-time member of the Coaliton of Women Leaders, a group of more than 150 women working to increase the participation of women […]
In 2009, the staff of The Institute for Inclusive Security traveled to Liberia to encourage women to run for office and help rebuild their country. Chair of the Institute, Swanee Hunt lead several training sessions on inspiring and creating a powerful political women’s movement in Liberia.
On October 25, 2011, Ambassador Swanee Hunt, and the filmmakers of the PBS documentary series “Women, War, and Peace” Abigail Disney, and Pamela Hogan, addressed lessons that could be gathered from the women in the Balkan peace process at a screening of “We came to Testify” at USIP in Washington, DC. Amb. Hunt served in […]
On a recent trip to Islamabad, Pakistan, the team from Inclusive Security worked with a coalition of women to bring their message of peace to a wider audience. One coalition member, Huma Chughtai, explains why women are capable of playing a particularly key role in peacebuilding and relates her ideas to examples of the Institute’s […]
In the Summer of 2011, Rima Nazzal spoke with the staff of the Institute for Inclusive Security about her influence in the process of gaining proportional representation for women in Palestinian Legislature.
Inclusive Security not only works to connect women leaders from around the world with other powerful peacemakers, but also raises the awareness of women’s presence at key historical events. In a series designed to document women’s contributions to the Egyptian Revolution in early 2011, the Institute’s staff sat down with Egyptian leaders to see a […]
Inclusive Security not only connects women leaders from around the world with other powerful peace makers but also raises the awareness of women’s presence at key historical events. In a series designed to document women’s contributions to the Egyptian Revolution in early 2011, the Institute’s staff sat down with Egyptian leaders to get a gender perspective […]
Sujata Thapa talks about how women in Nepal have worked together to get their needs put into the constitution so they can overcome their feeling of being second class citizens in their own country.
