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# Making the impossible possible
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/making-impossible-possible/
- Published: 2011-05-25T14:05:48.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T20:47:52.000Z
- Description: Nobel Laureates Shirin Ebadi and Jody Williams talk about strategies for change, drawing on their experiences of working for human rights reforms in Iran and of campaigning to ban landmines. (Video)
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: Conflict & security, #Migrated, Gender & sexuality, Politics & activism, women's human rights, women's movements, gender justice, Democracy and government, ideas, gender, Nobel Women's Initiative 2011, conflict, sexual violence, feminism, 50.50 Women, Peace & Security, women and militarism, Equality, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 14:30

Jody Williams and Shirin Ebadi talk about what works when working for global change. They are talking on the second day of the [Women Forging a New Security: Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict](http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/nobel-womens-initiative/nobel-womens-initiative-2011) conference.

[Jody Williams - Day 2](http://vimeo.com/24202348?ref=opendemocracy.net) from [Nobel Women's Initiative](http://vimeo.com/nobelwomen?ref=opendemocracy.net) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net).

[Shirin Ebadi - Making the impossible possible](http://vimeo.com/24202367?ref=opendemocracy.net) from [Nobel Women's Initiative](http://vimeo.com/nobelwomen?ref=opendemocracy.net) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net).

These videos were originally published by the [Nobel Women's Initiative](http://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/blogs/newsecurity?ref=opendemocracy.net).