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This Women & 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.
Excerpt from My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize
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
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Feminist.com's archive of features from the
Women, Power & Peace Conference
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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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