Rebecca Joshua Okwaci has been a driving force in South Sudan and Sudan for years, constantly pushing parties to the peace negotiations to not lose momentum. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended decades of war with its signing in 2005, recently expired with the referendum vote for separation of the two states. The negotiation of […]
One of the main barriers in negotiations is building trust between the parties. Belle Abaya, a peacebuilder from the Philippines, was able to create a consensus of goals using a model of peacebuilding she developed.
This article was originally published by The Christian Science Monitor. A little over a week ago, the largest country in Africa split in two. But violence continues between the two new countries. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rightly called on the new nations to “quickly return to the negotiating table.” The “redoubling” of […]
The Policy Forum is the culmination of two weeks of consultations with women mediators from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. These experts raised the profile of women in mediation and provided specific recommendations to those who plan and support negotiations about the importance of inclusive, multi-track processes. These experts joined nearly […]
Women remain largely absent from high-level international peace negotiations around the globe, particularly as mediators and facilitators of formal processes. This document summarizes findings from The Institute for Inclusive Security’s 12th Annual Colloquium, which brought together 21 female mediation experts from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. It outlines the unique contributions […]
As head of Parents of Servicemen Missing in Action and Association of War Affected Women, Visaka Dharmadasa and the women of Sri Lanka brought remarkable change through a simple signature campaign.
Recommendations for implementing Amendment 4 to the Equality of Women’s Rights Law, 5765-2005.
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.
This article, co-authored by Carla Koppell and Rebecca Miller, was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation. As the US relaunches Israeli-Palestinian talks, it sorely needs to reassess the negotiation process. Previous talks have suffered from lack of both transparency and inclusiveness. For most of the past 20 years, an extremely small group of high-level political […]
