Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Valerie Hudson writes about The foundation of human security in every society ahead of our Women Beyond War conference.
In 2006, then-Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, said: “The world is starting to grasp that there is no ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Madeleine Rees writes about Sexual violence, access to justice, and human rights ahead of our Women Beyond War conference.
Sexual violence, access to justice, and human rights. Taken separately, each of these issues would mean something ...read more
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Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire writes about Building a culture of love: replacing a culture of violence and death ahead of our Women Beyond War conference.
I passionately believe peace is possible, and that it is possible for the human ...read more
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We are very excited to invite you to join us online from May 28-30 for the Nobel Women’s Initiative’s fourth biennial conference, Moving Beyond Militarism & War: Women-driven solutions for a nonviolent world. The conference – hosted in Belfast by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire – will for ...read more
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Militarism is the military readiness of a state or society and includes factors such as maintaining a standing army and actively developing advanced combat techniques and weaponry. Throughout the world, conflicts are occurring on varying scales of size and severity but constitute militarization and ...read more
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A number of factors are fueling militarism, war, and violence throughout the world:
Differences in ideologies – political, economic, religious, or otherwise – where one or more parties attempts to dominate or eradicate another
A perpetual arms race in which states continuously research and ...read more
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Horrific human impacts; loss of life, displacement, emotional and physical trauma;
Every minute, two people are killed in conflicts around the world
Global displacement has reached crisis levels; Nearly 29 million people worldwide are currently displaced by armed conflict, violence, and ...read more
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Women around the world are mobilizing and developing creative and innovative strategies for peace. Their efforts involve everything from engaging youth to staging demonstrations to researching and challenging policy that facilitates militarism and the global continuum of violence.
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Meet Vaiba Kebeh Flomo – Women & Youth’s Desk Officer for theLutheran Church Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Program in Liberia.
A peace activist and social worker, Vaiba has worked since 1998 to healboth her nation and its womenfrom the 14-year civil war between rebel groups and the ...read more
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