Gender & sexuality

Laureate Jody Williams: telling it like it is

Jody Williams speaks frankly to Jane Gabriel about the impact that being a Nobel Peace Laureate has on her life - both personally and politically.

By Jane Gabriel

Published: May 19, 2009, 9:05 pm

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Jody Williams spoke frankly to Jane Gabriel about the impact that being a Laureate has on her life - both politically and personally. The Nobel Women's Initiative's second international conference was held in Guatemala last week, when 124 women from 35 different countries gathered to ‘Redefine Democracy for peace, justice and equality'. Joanna Kerr and Lisa Veneklasen describe the process by which the Laureates search for a common strategy, and the way in which the Nobel Women's Initiative is able to support women around the world who are working to address the root causes of violence.

To read articles and the conference blog written by participants and the openDemocracy team click here.

Jane Gabriel

Jane Gabriel founded and edited the openDemocracy project 50.50 in 2006, publishing critical perspectives on social justice, gender and pluralism. She retired in 2016.

Prior to joining openDemocracy, Jane produced and directed more than 30 documentaries for Channel 4 Television and the BBC international current affairs series 'Correspondent', winning the Royal Television Society and One World Media awards for documentaries filmed in Greece and India. In 1980s she was a member of the UK's first all-women television production company, Broadside. In the 1970s she worked at Granada TV in the UK, and at Pacifica radio KPFA in the US. She is a qualified advocate for children in care and a trustee of the IF Project.

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