Shelley Anderson

Shelley Anderson is the founder of the Women Peacemakers Programme of International Fellowship of Reconciliation. She has conducted nonviolence trainings around the world and written extensively on gender and peacebuilding

Gender, knowledge and change: questions and answers

When social change movements of all kinds are under attack, progressives need to build coalitions and to talk to one another as never before. Feminist models and methodologies can enrich every social change movement

By Shelley Anderson

/ 7 Oct 2010

The power in telling stories

Nonviolence is a value, a tool, and a force which ordinary people can and do use daily. The undocumented nature of much nonviolent action perpetrates the myth that it is ineffectual: it is our duty to tell the stories.

By Shelley Anderson

/ 19 Jul 2010

Vital peace constituencies

The last decade has seen much more detailed attention to the many, sometimes contradictory, roles women play in conflict situations. But women remain a vital peace constituency

By Shelley Anderson

/ 18 Feb 2010