Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Jennifer Allsopp and Julienne Lusenge write 'We want peace. We're tired of war' for our Women Beyond War conference.
Julienne Lusenge spoke to Jennifer Allsopp at the Nobel Women's Initiative conference in Belfast about her work as a women's ...read more
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Georgia Collins is in her final year at Friends' School in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. She was part of a group of young women from Friends' School who volunteered over the three-day Women Beyond War conference. Georgia reflects on her experience growing up in Northern Ireland and what she learned ...read more
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Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, host of the Nobel Women's Initiative's fourth biennial conference, Moving Beyond Militarism & War: Women-driven solutions for a nonviolent world, discusses the importance of women in bringing about peace in times of war and conflict.
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Meet Jodie Evans, Co-Founder and Co-Director of CODEPINK, a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks to end U.S. funded warsand occupations, challenge militarism globally, and redirect resources used for conflict into life-affirming activities.
Jodie has worked as a ...read more
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Meet Mariem Omari, Deputy Director of Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), an international solidarity network that provides support for women whose lives are shaped by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.
As Deputy Director, Mariem works to support the WLUML network and encourage the ...read more
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At the end of the Nobel Women's Initiative conference, Moving Beyond Militarism & War: Women-driven Solutions for a Nonviolent World, participants endorsed a statement calling on a resolution to the conflict in Syria and inclusion of women in the peace process.
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The Laureates of the Nobel Women's Initiative issued a statement today calling for G8 leaders to redirect military spending for social services to tackle the root causes of violence.
The statement was issued at the end of the Nobel Women's Initiative biennial conference Moving Beyond Militarism ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Amina Mama writes about Challenging militarized masculinities for our Women Beyond War conference.
Militarism and heteronormative gender identities are co-constitutive. It is not that ‘masculinity’ generates war, as the question has been ...read more
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In this video, Women Beyond War conference participant Asieh Amini says that
"Peacebuilding is the most important thing to continue this world."
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Tweet transcript of the Fifth Plenary session of the Women Beyond War conference: "A World of Nonkilling: Powerful Responses to Existing & Looming Threats." Speakers: Yoshioka Tatsuya (Peace Boat), Jody Williams (Stop Killer Robot Campaign), and Peter Emerson (De Borda ...read more
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