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South Sudanese Women Leader Sees Long Way Ahead for Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment
This article was originally published by Xinhua News Agency. Sarah Ajith James arrived in Washington last Sunday night, just five months after her country — South Sudan — seceded from Sudan and became the world’ s 193rd nation, knowing that the road to equality would be long and difficult for women in the world’s newest […]
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South Sudan: Women Aim to Protect Their Rights in a Young State
This article was originally published by Inter Press Service. As South Sudan maps out its economic future at the South Sudan International Engagement Conference (IEC) this week in Washington, women from the new country called on donors to invest in projects that ensure women benefit equally from development plans. … The Institute for Inclusive Security, […]
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The Time Is Ripe for a National Dialogue on Reconciliation
This article was originally published by Huffington Post. After the tragic assassination of the head of the High Peace Council — Professor Burnahuddin Rabbani — in late September, many pundits took to the airwaves, blogosphere, and Twitterverse to predict the death of the reconciliation effort in Afghanistan. While the brazen killing was undoubtedly designed to […]
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners Leymah Gbowee and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Recognized
This article was originally published by The Daily Beast. Looking out the airplane window at a white winter landscape in Oslo yesterday, I thought back to another flight. Several years ago, a U.N. helicopter took me “up country” to the Liberian bush. Sitting in circles on rickety chairs in the heavy heat, women leaders (albeit […]
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Building Peace Huts
In 2006, The Institute for Inclusive Security arranged a meeting between two of our leading Women Waging Peace Network members. Though it was clear at the time that the Institute’s staff filmed this video that these women were doing amazing work to build peace in Liberia, to much of the rest of the world Leymah […]
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Support of This Network
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.
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Rural Women Peace and Security
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.
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Afghan Women See an Opportunity at Bonn
This article was originally published by Huffington Post. On December 5, the international community will gather with Afghan leaders in Bonn, Germany’s picturesque Cold War-era capital, for the latest stock-taking of Afghanistan. While some are tempering expectations for the second major conference in Bonn in ten years, Afghan women leaders see an opportunity — and […]
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Politically Separate but Socially Together
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 […]
Policy Brief
South Sudan International Engagement Conference and Gender Symposium
In December 2011, women civil society activists gathered in Washington, DC, for the South Sudan International Engagement Conference and Gender Symposium. In line with the South Sudan Development plan, the women defined their priorities for the future of their country’s peace and development. These recommendations are guided by five overarching themes discussed at the International […]
