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Women & Peace


The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Winners:
Leymah Gbowee, Tawakul Karman, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Newsflash! Coming this spring, during the 2013 Commission on the Status of Women: Feminist.com's Women & Peace Salon - a conversation with filmmaker Abigail Disney and other women peacemakers, including Nobel Laureate Jody WIlliams, WILPF Secretary General Madeleine Rees, AWID Executive Director, Lydia Alpízar Durán and World YWCA General Secretary Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda. In partnership with Peace is Loud and part of Feminist.com's FemSalon Series.

Feminist.com is proud to announce this new, evolving section of its website dedicated to women and peace. We are deeply committed to supporting a vision of lasting peace throughout the world, which can only be achieved through the full participation of peace-seeking women alongside peace-seeking men in all aspects of society. The Women and Peace section will serve as a platform to promote and support the visionary people and organizations working toward this goal.

Through this section, Feminist.com will showcase women’s peacebuilding work, elevate their voices on key peace and security questions, and advocate for women who are risking their lives for peace. Features of this section will:

  • harness technology to enable connection and collaboration across divides, engaging diverse audiences that are impossible to gather in a non-virtual space
  • provide a space to discuss and share diverse methods, strategies, and resources
  • emphasize dialogue, inviting different political, economic, social, cultural, and religious perspectives on women’s full inclusion in peace and security
  • empower Feminist.com readers to become more informed and involved, increasing support for the work of women peacemakers across the globe

    This Women and Peace section was first inspired by Omega Institute and V-Day's Women, Power & Peace conference. Check out the links to articles and interviews from this event further below on this page.


    Women protesting in Egypt

    Latest features:

  • AWID Presents A Selection Of Significant Moments For Women's Rights In 2012 (VIDEO)

  • Excerpt from Sex and World Peace by Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad F. Emmett

  • Column: Women's Global Voices By Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

  • Column: United for Peace By Nobel Women's Initiative

  • Waging Feminism – the Other Side of Nonviolent Struggle By Stephanie Van Hook

  • Petition to Support the Afghan's Network By Meredith Tax

  • Women, War & Peace: War Redefined By Peter Bull

  • Bring in the Women Peacemakers: Are We at a Tipping Point? By Sheherazade Jafari

  • Women Nobel Peace Laureates Congratulate Three New Women Laureates by the Nobel Women's Initiative

  • Interviewing a new kind of leader and, now, a Nobel Prize winner, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by Pat Mitchell



    Omega Institute, V-Day and the Nobel Women's Initiative present...
    Women, Power & Peace

    Read Feminist.com's archive of features from the Women, Power & Peace Conference


    More from and about Women, Power & Peace
    Hillary, Condi, Aung San Suu Kyi and You
    by Marianne Schnall - The Women's Media Center
    Nobel Laureates, Sally Field, and Other Muzzled Peace Voices
    by Marianne Schnall - The Huffington Post


    Quotes from Women, Power & Peace Speakers


    Featuring selected quotes from Majora Carter, Kimberly Williams Crenshaw, Riane Eisler, Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Carol Gilligan, Elizabeth Lesser, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Pat Mitchell, Kerry Washington, Betty Williams, and Jody Williams.


    Exclusive Interviews from Women, Power & Peace
    by Feminist.com Founder Marianne Schnall:

    • Conversation with Betty Williams
    • Conversation with Carol Gilligan
    • Conversation with Kerry Washington


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    Hillary Clinton and Aung San Suu Kyi

    Images from AWARE: Association of Women for Action and Research
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