Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Peace'
A Brave New World: Women as Architects of Peace
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor & Founder, The WIP This past weekend I was invited to keynote the Global Women’s Conference at CSU Fullerton. It was a great opportunity for me to reflect on the journey that we’ve been on...
Violence Breeds Violence: “Afghanistan without bombs and burqas”
by Wazhmah Osman - Afghanistan/USA - Today Afghanistan finds itself in a state of collapse and at the center of a powerful network of global terrorism. Kabul is a city filled with anxiety, insecurity, instability, trauma, and uncertainty; lost souls...
Dancing The Divide: Interview with Pakistani Peacemaker Sheema Kermani
by Aditi Bhaduri - India - With her large flashing eyes rimmed with kohl and flowing hair, she is the quintessential dancer. Despite her chain-smoking, she is the picture of health and surprisingly agile. But then again, she has been...
Compassion, Courage and Hope: Creating Peace in the New Year
by Sarah McGowan Features & Photo Editor, The WIP I was called a prostitute, I was called a thief…I was called all sorts of names, but none of the newspapers came to call me defender of children’s rights. Very ironic...
The “democratic evolution” of the Kurdish Question:
Turkish and Kurdish Mothers Campaign for Peace
by Dr. Emel Baştürk Akca - Turkey - “We mothers, whose hearts are burning, have come together so that there will be no more pain. We do not want our children to die.” These words belong to Nurten Ekinci, a...
The Human Cost of Unregulated Arms Trade
by Binalakshmi Nepram-Mentschel - India - In July I spoke before the United Nations General Assembly in honor of the tens of thousands of people who have lost their lives to gun violence in my part of the world. The...
Cambodia: Defining Peace in Order to Build Peace
by Pushpa Iyer - USA - At the entrance to the eerily preserved torture rooms in Tuol Sleng (the genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia), there is a sign bearing the face of a distinctly Cambodian man who is laughing....
Empathy and Peace: Lessons Learned in Cambodia
by Pushpa Iyer - USA - It was close to 8pm on a Saturday two months ago. I was walking down a big, busy street in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with a colleague, returning to our hotel after having dinner. As...
Thoughts from Mumbai: A Return to Gandhi’s Dream for India
by Rupa Chinai - India - In the aftermath of Mumbai’s most recent encounter with terrorism, there is the feeling of isolation felt by those pleading for sense and reason. These voices are being drowned out amidst the jingoism and...
No Time for War: A Call for Peace Amid Rising Nuclear Tensions between Pakistan and India
by Zubeida Mustafa - Pakistan - Peace activists in Pakistan and India are attempting desperately to be heard above the din raised by warmongers – elitist by all counts and claiming to be patriotic as well – in the wake...
Pray the Devil Back to Hell: Liberian Women Bring Peace to their War-Torn Country
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The recent history of Liberia is bloody. Valuable natural resources, corrupt leaders, ethnic conflicts, and thousands of displaced people led to 8 years of conflict during Liberia’s two civil wars (1989-1993 and 1999-2003). Many...
The Granny Peace Brigade Campaigns to Close All US Military Bases - in Latin America and Around the World
by Nancy Van Ness - USA - Their hats adorned with artificial flowers identify them at many of the protests in which I participate. The Grannies also show up on New York City's Union Square to sing their signature anti-war...
Kashmir's Tourism Suffers When Conflict Erupts
by Kulsoom Nizamuddin - Indian-administered Kashmir - - In a continuing cycle of conflict, fresh violence broke out this week in Kashmir, heightening tensions and confining everyone to their homes as a blanket curfew was put into effect in Srinagar....
The Aftermath Project: War Is Only Half the Story
by Sara Terry - USA - It all goes back, I think, to the day I was standing in a mass grave, hating the fact that I was there, balanced precariously on a mound of bones, camera reluctantly in hand....
Kenya Is Burning: Women’s Voices Are Missing in the Making of the Nation
by Philo Ikonya - Kenya - The women of Kenya have always been aware of injustice in our society, all through the years. And they have fought for justice: in 1922 Mary Nyanjiru faced the colonialist’s gun fearlessly after stating...
A Letter to Njeri – a Kenyan Sister Who Received Death Threats After the Elections
by Philo Ikonya - Kenya - Dear Njeri, Tonight, I am unable to sleep. You see, my country - our country - is on fire. It is almost the end of February: is it the end of Kenya as we...
In Ongoing War in Muslim Mindanao, Women Are Peacemakers and Breadwinners
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines In times of war and during the peace process, women have played key roles, particularly in the protection of their rights and those of their children. • Cultures clash in the Philippines as US military...
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