Exclusive coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Yifat Susskind writes about Women in post-earthquake Haiti: moving beyond survival for our Women Beyond War conference.
Haitian women who are living and organising in the displacement camps, together with international partners, have produced an ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Peter Emerson writes about How to vote for peace ahead of our Women Beyond War conference.
In order to vote for peace, we must first vote for voting systems which are 'peace-ful'. Peter Emerson argues for consensus voting which allows for ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Rebecca Johnson writes From banning nuclear tests to banning nuclear weapons ahead of our Women Beyond War conference.
Sixty years ago, on October 3 1952, the United Kingdom conducted its first nuclear test explosion, codenamed ‘Hurricane’. ...read more
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(Belfast, Northern Ireland)--27 May, 2013
Six female Nobel Peace Laureates will be joined by conflict resolution experts and peacemakers from some of the world’s most war-ravaged countries for a major international conference in Northern Ireland to explore ways of increasing global security by ...read more
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Liz Bernstein, Executive Director of the Nobel Women's Initiative, reflects on the necessity of nonviolence in diffusing tense situations:
Since my arrival in Belfast yesterday to prepare for our Women Beyond War conference, the UK news has been full of the story of a British soldier who was ...read more
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Conference participant Judith Hand writes ahead of Moving Beyond Militarism & War: Women-driven solutions for a nonviolent world:
When I said I would be attending the Nobel Women's Conference in Belfast, a member of the planning committee said to me, "It's going to be huge!" I believe she's ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Ruth Rosen writes about Women and the language of peace protest, a theme to be explored at our Women Beyond War conference.
Throughout history, women have often leveraged their legitimacy and status as mothers—or even as grandmothers—to ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Yoshioka Tatsuya and Celine Nahory write about Japan's peace pledge under attack ahead of our Women Beyond War conference.
In the past few months, Japan has been experiencing political changes, notably with the December 2012 re-election of ...read more
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Mairead Maguire won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her efforts in bringing an end to violence in Northern Ireland. Soon after, she founded the organization Peace People and continues to work in nonviolent peace movements. Mairead is hosting the Nobel Women's Initiative's fourth biennial ...read more
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From openDemocracy 50.50: Ann Wright writes "I protest": challenging the war policies of the United States ahead of our Women Beyond War conference.
Ten years ago, I resigned from my position in the United States government in opposition to President George W. Bush’s war on Iraq. I had worked in ...read more
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