by Sumanto Al Qurtuby | Oct 17, 2012 | Gender, Interfaith Peacebuilding, Intersectionality
Sumanto Al Qurtuby In 1999, in response to bloody communal violence that broke out in eastern Indonesia, a handful of Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim women leaders and activists established the interfaith alliance Gerakan Perempuan Peduli, the Concerned Women’s...
by Mariam Safi | Sep 5, 2012 | Gender, Intersectionality
Mariam Safi Two years after President Hamid Karzai’s consultative Peace Jirga and creation of the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme, the peace process continues to receive criticism for the ambiguity that surrounds the role of women. Civil society...
by David Cortright, Kristen Wall | Sep 5, 2012 | Gender, Human Rights, Intersectionality
David Cortright and Kristen Wall The U.S. is set to withdraw the bulk of its forces from Afghanistan by 2014. This transition period is fraught with risk for Afghan women, many of whom have benefited during 10 years of improved access to education, health care, and...
by The Afghan Women’s Network | Sep 5, 2012 | Gender, Human Rights, Intersectionality
The Afghan Women’s Network The Afghan Women’s Network is a non-partisan network of women and women’s groups working to empower Afghan women and ensure their equal participation in Afghan society. This post summarizes the Network’s presentation at the NATO Summit...
by Peter Wallensteen | May 2, 2012 | Peace Agreements
Peter Wallensteen In January 1990 I received a phone call from the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. The island was experiencing an intensive armed conflict, a war that was small by international standards, but which we included in the Uppsala Conflict Data...
