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In Conversation with Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee
Online Tuesday, July 28, 2020 12pm (EDT), 4pm (Liberia), 9pm (Pakistan Standard Time) Hosted by: Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Founder, Harvard’s Women and Public Policy Program, and Chair, Inclusive Security Farhat Asif, Founder and President, Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies
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An Anniversary in Bosnia, and How Women Found Justice
By Miki Jacevic On July 11, 1995, the horrors of the only European genocide since World War II reached their nadir with the massacre of an estimated 8,000 men and boys at the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. While UN “protectors” watched passively, Serb forces separated these unarmed husbands, fathers, sons and brothers from their female […]
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Jacqueline O’Neill Appointed Canada’s First Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security
By Miki Jacevic, Vice Chair of Inclusive Security I’m thrilled to share with you that Inclusive Security’s former president, Jacqui O’Neill, is Canada’s first-ever Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security! Click here to sign a card congratulating her. I met Jacqui in 2006 when she began her work at Inclusive Security. She originated our focus […]
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Event: How Women Saved Rwanda
Tuesday, May 7, 2019 – 6:00pm The John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Twenty-five years ago, the African nation of Rwanda was ripped apart by a genocide that left nearly a million dead. The untold story is that when the bloodshed ended, women not only buried the dead and cared for orphaned children, they drove a […]
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What Makes For an Effective WPS National Action Plan?
By Miki Jacevic This article was originally published here on The Strategist. For the past 20 years, I’ve worked on turning the promise of UN Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security (WPS) into reality. In my experience, developing WPS national action plans (NAPs) is one way in which we can translate policy […]
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The Crucial Role of Women as Peacemakers
A number of years ago, Ambassador Swanee Hunt was invited to speak at a conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The topic was women building peace in Africa, and women from all over the continent attended. She was invited to speak at the time about her involvement in the women’s movement here in the United States. “I […]
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Rising Because They Have To
In 1994, Rwanda lost a huge portion of its male population when the ruling Hutu government murdered 500,000 to 1 million of its citizens, including an estimated 77 percent of the Tutsi population. The genocide left an enormous void, widened by the number of Rwandans who had fled or been imprisoned — and women stepped up […]
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What Women Bring to the Constitution-Writing Table
When social norms are upended by violence—including relations between women and men—constitution reform presents an opportunity to transform power dynamics in a society. Rewriting a country’s constitution is a frequent step on the path toward peace, and is a particularly important entry point for women to address their historic marginalization and have a say in […]
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The Women, Peace, and Security Act: A Rare Milestone
With International Women’s Day approaching on March 8th, it’s fitting to take note of one of the few hopeful moments in American politics this past year: The enactment of the Women, Peace and Security Act of 2017 was a quiet bipartisan landmark, the culmination of more than two decades of relentless advocacy to involve women in decisions […]
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Women Write Better Constitutions
Even as fighting rages in Eastern Ghouta, Syrians on different sides of the conflict are trying to come together to write a new constitution. The vast majority of those involved in these negotiations are men. But fresh research tells us why their chances of success will be far greater if the drafting process includes Syria’s […]
